African values, ethics, and technology : questions, issues, and approaches / Beatrice Dedaa Okyere-Manu, editor.
Okyere-Manu, Beatrice, editor.
2021
T28.A1
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Title African values, ethics, and technology : questions, issues, and approaches / Beatrice Dedaa Okyere-Manu, editor.
ISBN 9783030705503 (electronic bk.)
3030705501 (electronic bk.)
3030705498
9783030705497
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70550-3
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvi, 284 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-70550-3 doi
Call Number T28.A1
Dewey Decimal Classification 174.96
601
Summary This book charts technological developments from an African ethical perspective. It explores the idea that while certain technologies have benefited Africans, the fact that these technologies were designed and produced in and for a different setting leads to conflicts with African ethical values. Written in a simple and engaging style, the authors apply an African ethical lens to themes such as: The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the moral status of technology, technology and sexual relations, and bioethics and technology. Beatrice Dedaa Okyere-Manu is Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics in the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, where she is also the Director of the Ethics Studies Department.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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1. Introduction: Charting an African Perspective of Technological Innovation
Part I The Fourth Industrial Revolution and African Ethics
2. The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and Africas Future: Reflections from African Ethics
3. Africa in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: A status quaestionis, from the cultural to the phenomenological
Part II African Values, and Technology
4. African Reasons Why AI Should Not Maximize Utility
5. Values and Technological Development in an African Context
6. African Cultural Values, Practices and Modern Technology
Part III Technology, African Ethics and Sexual Relations
7. Shifting Intimate Sexual Relations from Humans to Machines: An African Indigenous Ethical Perspective
8. The Death of Isintu in Contemporary Technological Era: The Ethics of Sex Robots Among the Ndebele of Matabo
Part IV Technology, African Values and Human Relationship
9. The Importance of a Neo-African Communitarianism in Virtual Space: An Ethical Inquiry for the African Teenager
10. The Ambivalent Role of Technology on Human Relationships: An Afrocentric Exploration
11. Interrogating Social Media Group Communications Integrity: An African, Utilitarian Perspective
Part V Bioethics, African Values and Technology
12. Bioethics and Technology: An African Ethical Perspective
13. The Use of Sex Selection Reproductive Technology in Traditional African Societies: An Ethical Evaluation and a Case for Its Adaptation
14. Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Indigenous Akan Ethics: A Critical Analysis
Part VI African Religious Values and Technology
15. The Impact of Technologies on African Religions: A Theological Perspective
16. Technologization of Religion: The Unstoppable Revolution in the Zimbabwean Mainline Churches.

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