Conveners
Session IV: Technology, Culture, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
- Kammila Naidoo (University of Johannesburg)
Ms
Cassi Gewer
(University of Johannesburg)
03/09/2019, 15:15
Plenary
Speaker
As a Humanities’ student in the age of artificial intelligence algorithms, software engineering and big data – concepts such as youth unemployment, human cognition and the future of academia are prominent in Industry 4.0. This paper highlights the role a Humanities’ scholar plays in embracing technological trends and using critical thinking, human observation and psychoanalysis to enter the...
Ms
Ruvimbo Samanga
(Space Generation Advisory Council)
03/09/2019, 15:30
Plenary
Speaker
The 4th industrial revolution is going to be driven by three key ages, artificial intelligence, digitization and most notably the Space age. It is this last field especially that has formed the bulk of my research and how Space Applications can promote sustainable development on the African continent especially though the use of satellite technology. Given rapid technological advances many...
Prof.
Maria Frahm-Arp
(UJ)
03/09/2019, 15:45
Plenary
Speaker
In 2013 machine learning took off as deep learning – the ability of computers to teach themselves new concepts and ideas – became a reality. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is a revolution unlike any we have seen before because it ushers in a world in which machines can continually learn making it possible for them to make intelligent decisions based on the data they collect. Put...
Ms
Tsholofelo Masetshaba Mosala
(N/A)
03/09/2019, 16:00
Plenary
Speaker
The concept of religion in anthropology, is understood to be a sort of cultural script- a strong framing narrative for daily life in many parts of the world. The digital technology has make it into the social settings and mirrors new sociocultural realities. Today, church sermons can be lived-streamed, downloaded online and congregants can actively participate from the comfortable of their...
Dr
Phefumula Nyoni
(UJ-Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies)
03/09/2019, 16:15
Plenary
Speaker
This study is an investigation of kinship influences on women smallholder farmers’ practices in rural spaces. This study is an ongoing study conducted within a context were livelihoods are increasingly getting linked to the capitalist economy which has proved to be going through rapid transformations largely linked to the features of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4th IR). A study that...
Prof.
Kammila Naidoo
(University of Johannesburg)
03/09/2019, 16:45
Plenary
Discussion
iscussion based on the Speakers' inputs (Session IV)
