The 4IR and the Humanities in South Africa: Perspectives on innovation, power and potentialities

Volume editor
Bhaso Ndzendze
Volume editor
Asheel Singh
Volume editor
Suzall Timm

Synopsis

The world is at a crossroads because of industrial change, compounded by a global pandemic. Humanities and social science education is grappling with the meaning of this change, to the effect that there have been some anxieties and misguided perceptions about the irrelevance of the humanities in this emerging new world. With the emergence of new technologies, this book highlights the indispensable centrality of humanity and the humanities going forward. The book will provide a reference point for new and innovative approaches to the humanities in the 4IR in South Africa and Africa. Its diverse content means that it will be useful across the humanities and social science spectrum.

Chapters

  • Chapter 1
    Fourth Industrial Revolution and gender-responsive budgeting in South Africa: Policy challenges and alternatives
    Tinuade A Ojo, Zainab M Olaitan
  • Chapter 2
    Artificial intelligence sword and shield: Implications for cybersecurity in South Africa
    Mancha J Sekgololo
  • Chapter 3
    (Mis)trust in the news media’s anthropomorphic framing of artificial intelligence technologies in the (future) world of work: Perceptions of humanities students in South Africa
    Susan I Brokensha
  • Chapter 4
    Inequalities in South African indigenous languages during the Fourth Industrial Revolution
    Ndivhuwo D Sundani, Mmatlou J Malatji
  • Chapter 5
    Neopatrimonialism and digital client politics: The use of big data in African electoral campaigns
    Zimkhitha Manyana
  • Chapter 6
    Googling and electoral cycles in the United States of America and South Africa: Mutual interests, big data and digital global citizenship
    Bhaso Ndzendze, Mancha J Sekgololo
  • Chapter 7
    Humanising the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Graduate employability and the career paths of sociology postgraduate students at a South African higher education institution
    Pragna Rugunanan, Celine Meyers
  • Chapter 8
    Extraditing the oral-based knowledge of indigenous games to the computational-based approach of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
    Thizwilondi J Madima, Pfarelo E Matshidze, Vhonani O Netshandama
  • Chapter 9
    The holism of ubuntu: The missing link in Fourth Industrial Revolution-led environmental justice solutions
    Nombulelo T Shange
  • Chapter 10
    Collaborative efforts between universities and industries in South Africa amid the Fourth Industrial Revolution
    Bhaso Ndzendze, Asheel Singh, Suzall Timm

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