Abstract: Leadership moves and changes the world, including the state politics & the church. Leadership ensures democratization and modernization under political participation of all citizens whereas the status of church leaders’ participation in politics was not well known in many countries, including Ethiopia. Therefore, the current study aimed to determine the propensity of church leaders on political participation in Ethiopia. A descriptive study with quantitative data analysis of 376 study subjects was conducted from August 1-15, 2020. A semi-structured, validated and pretested questionnaire was served to collect the data by trained data collectors. The quantitative data were coded, entered into Epinfo computer software and transported to SPSS version 23.0 for analysis. During the process of data management, frequencies & percentages were calculated and described the data in tables & figures. The study has included participants of calculated mean age of 32.9 (SD±8.3) years. More than 62% of the participants have indicated the importance of political participation with the conventional form of political participation being the most practiced followed by unconventional form as reported by 64.9% & 27.4% of participants respectively. The current study has determined that the propensity of church leaders toward political participation was dissimilar and generally frail across the studied churches because of believed different source of power in church and state politics.Abstract: Leadership moves and changes the world, including the state politics & the church. Leadership ensures democratization and modernization under political participation of all citizens whereas the status of church leaders’ participation in politics was not well known in many countries, including Ethiopia. Therefore, the current study aimed to determin...Show More
Abstract: Somatosensory interaction is a kind of man-machine interfacing technique for information acquisition through human postures, which are widely used in digital art nowadays. To create opportunities for the visually impaired to enjoy digital art, two sound art systems named Dynamic Sound and Concrete Sound, which are based on somatosensory technology, were designed in this study for the visually impaired to appreciate with pleasure. The former system emphasizes resonances between humans and sound, allowing the visually impaired user to trigger different sounds by hand gestures which promote the user’s physio-pleasure and ideo-pleasure. The latter system, also being controlled by hand gestures, combines sounds with three-state physical phenomena as feedbacks which are explained orally by an accompanying person to the visually impaired user, creating an inter-person communication that promotes the user’s socio-pleasure. By public exhibitions, users’ feedbacks were acquired via interviews, and evaluated to prove the effectiveness of the proposed systems with the following findings: 1) interactions by hand gestures offers the visually impaired with opportunities to enjoy digital art; 2) sound art provided by the systems allows the visually impaired to gain pleasure via man-machine interactions; 3) the systems innovatively integrate dynamic visual performances with auditory feedbacks in the interaction process; and 4) through the development of gesture operations, more performance techniques can be devised for sound art, allowing gesture motions to replace control interfaces in future designs.Abstract: Somatosensory interaction is a kind of man-machine interfacing technique for information acquisition through human postures, which are widely used in digital art nowadays. To create opportunities for the visually impaired to enjoy digital art, two sound art systems named Dynamic Sound and Concrete Sound, which are based on somatosensory technology,...Show More
