Assembling an African Information Ethics

Authors

  • Bernd Frohmann

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29173/irie15

Abstract

The Tshwane Conference on African Information Ethics of 5-7 February 2007 forces the question, What is an African information ethics? This question is addressed with reference to the complexities of a distinctly African information ethics, taking into account the distinction between ethics and morality, and the assumptions of the language of the Tshwane Declaration on Information Ethics in Africa. Gilles Deleuze‘s concept of assem-blage, analyzed from the perspectives of Bruno Latour‘s concept of ?reassembling the social? and recent anthropological approaches to global assemblages are put to work to investigate possibilities of an African information ethics, with special attention to the concepts of universality and African identity. The task of assembling an African information ethics is then analyzed in terms of Latour‘s call for building ?livable collec-tives?.

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Published

2007-09-01

How to Cite

Frohmann, Bernd. 2007. “Assembling an African Information Ethics”. The International Review of Information Ethics 7 (September). Edmonton, Canada:135-45. https://doi.org/10.29173/irie15.

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Vol. 7 (2007): African Information Ethics Conference

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