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Author Info

Source Type

Categorical

Definitional

Causal

Evaluation

Action

Jurisdiction

Up to three names,
write them all; 4+,
write first name et
al. (i.e., Smith et
al.)

(popular, scholarly,
trade, government)

Does X exist?

Is X a Y?

Does X cause Y?
Is Y a result of X?

Is it good or bad?
Fair or unfair?
Harmful or
beneficial?

What should be
done about X?

Who is responsible?

1.Neil Postman
was an
american
author,educator ,
Media theorist
and cutural
critic.
For more than
forty years,he
was associated
with New York
University.

Postman
-Scholary

He died of lung
cancer in 2003
2.,Fridah
MuyaleManenji
She is an elite
african woman
scholar,whose
excellent
commuications
and writing
skills earned her
a positions at
the World vision
International
and African
Development
Education
Network.

The surrender
of culture to
technology.

BookTechnopoly

MuyaleManenji
Scholarly,
World council
of churches

Large influx
of technology
has contributed
to the passing
of culture into
the oblivion
slowly.

The effects of
globalization
on culture in
Africa in the
eyes of an
African
woman.
How has
technology
impacted the
livelihood of
Africans
through the
lens of a

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woman.They
are the
backbone of a
community and
so they know
better.
3.,Kwame
Yeboah.
Yeboah is a
graduate student
at the university
of southern
Denmark.

4.Kabelo
Makwane.
Makwane is a
southAfrican
born business
accountant
personnel.
He is the
current country
manager of
microsoft in
Nigeria.

Yeboah,
-Scholarly
California
State
University

The Impact of
Globalisation
on the African
culture.
At what extent
has technology
influenced the
african
culture.

Makwane
Technnet
-Article

Technology in
Africa: The
potential, the
downfalls
and the
opportunities
it holds for
you
Kabelo a
technophile,Pre
aches the
benefits of
technology in
Africa interms
of potential and

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opportunities
for individuals
but also he
points out the
downfall
interms of
development.If
we continue
ignoring it.
5.Daniele
Archibugi and
Carlo Pietrobelli
Archibugi is an
italian economic
and political
theorist.
He works on the
economics and
policy of
innovation and
technological
change.
Pietrobelli is
currently a Lead
Economist at
the interAmerican
Development
Bank.
He is also a
professor of
Economics at
the university of
rome 3.

Archibugi,Pietr
obelli
Scholarly.
Technological
forecasting and
social change.
-Science Direct

The
Globalisation
of Technology
and it
implications
for developing
countries
Windows of
Opportunity
or further
burden?
Technology
almost now
becoming a
neccessasity
accross all
platforms and
economies.Wh
ere does this
leave
africa.Will
Africans gain
or lose out as it

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may be dejavu
what ocurred
during
colonialism.
Author Info

Source Type

Categorical

Definitional

Causal

Evaluation

Action

Jurisdiction

Up to three names,
write them all; 4+,
write first name et
al. (i.e., Smith et
al.)

(popular, scholarly,
trade, government)

Does X exist?

Is X a Y?

Does X cause Y?
Is Y a result of X?

Is it good or bad?
Fair or unfair?
Harmful or
beneficial?

What should be
done about X?

Who is responsible?

6.Adebayo A.
Ogungbure

Ogungbure

He is an avid
debater,a
philospher with
diverse research
interests.
He is currently
at the
Department of
Philosphy,Unive
rsity of
Ibadan,Nigeria

Scholarly
-Science Direct

The Possibilities
of Technological
Development in
Africa: An
Evaluation of
the
Role of Culture
The Article is
gauging the role
of culture in the
technology
advancement in
Africa.Technolog
y development is
good but what
about
culture.Whats the
role of culture
in all this
kumbaya
towards
technology.
words

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7.Tim Finn
He is a
professor of
computer
science and
electrical
engineering at
the university of
maryland
baltimore,
county.
Finn holds an
undergraduate
degree from
MIT and a PHD
from university
of chicago
,illinois.

Finin
UMBC
ebiquity-Article

Does
technology
change culture
or culture
changes
technology.
Finin is
stating and
analysing the
fact whether
technology
changes
culture or
culture
changes
technology
after attending
a CRA'S
snowbird
conference
where
research from
intel that was
conducted
around several
countries was
presented.This
argument had
only been
looked at on
one side of the
coin.

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8.Abanyam
Noah Lumun.
Scholer.

Noah Lumun

He is a scholar
at the university
of Mkar,Mkar
Nigeria in the
department of
sociology

ArticleJournals of
Humanities and
social
sciences,Univer
sity of Mkar.

9.Barbara Bray
Is a blogger

Bray

The Effects of
Western
Technology on
African
Cultural
Values

Scholarly.

Personal blog

Due to
insufficient or
no technologies
available in
Africa
developed by
Africans,adapti
ng technology
means
importing,it
comes along
with western
cultural values.
This is leading
to the dilution
of the African
cultures
Technology
and its impact
on culture and
society
Technology
has gone
through phases.
During which
at the every
particular
stage,they were
culture was

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affected in one
way or another.
We used to
write letters
now we twitter.
To come to
terms with
technology and
its simplicity of
life,we must
come to terms
with the
ramifications
like cultura
change.
10.Mercy U.
Nwegbu
Cyril C. Eze
Brendan E.
Asogwa
Brendan is a
senior librarian
and head of
circulation
department at the
university of
Nigeria,Nsukka
Mercy U Nwegbu
currently working
in the department
of library and
information
science.

Nwegbu,Eze,A
sogwa
Scholarly
Article
University of
idaho

Globalization
of Cultural
Heritage:
Issues,
Impacts, and
Inevitable
Challenges for
Nigeria.
Specifically
looking at
nigeria.This
article explores
various ways
how our
cultures have
been impacted
with the influx
of technology
in an effort to

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gobalise our
economy.

11.Scholar

Obioha

Obioha
Uwaezuoke
Precious

Scholarly
-Academic
journals

Globalisation
and the future of
African Culture
The race to
dependent
economic
development and
rapid growth of
technology,where
does the fate of
the African
culture fall.Are
we designing an
approach that
will streamline
both culture and
technology or
not?

She a nigerian
elite scholar
who wrote one
of her most
referenced
articles while at
Olabisi
Onabanjo
University,Niger
ia.

12.

Olugbemiro J.
Jegede
Is currently the
secretary to the
kogi state
Government.He
is the immediate
past Secretary
General and

Jegede
Scholarly
Article
-Eric.ed.gov

African
cultural
perspective
and the
teaching of
science.
The worry is
the introduction
of technology

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Chief Executive
of the
Association of
African
Universities.Bef
ore this
appointment he
served in
several positions
all over the
world including
foundation
head,Research
and Evaluation
unit diatance
Education
centre at the
university of
southern
Queensland,Aus
tralia.

and its syllabus

in schools does
is not
embedded with
the African
cultural settings
syllabus.The
technology
syllabus comes
with the
western
cultural settings
that many
believe is
unfair and
leads to one
sided
conversation
which is the
American
culture as a
universal
culture.

13.Scholar/Nurse

Bruce

J.C Bruce

Scholarly
Article
-ReadCube

Is a senior
Lecture
Department of
Nursing
Education,Univ
ersity Of
Witwatersrand,S
outh Africa

Marrying
modern health
practices and
technology
with
traditional
african
practices:Issue
s for Africa.
Acknowledge
of the old
traditional

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practices and
willingness to
integrate them
with the
modern
practices.This
shows how
technology and
culture can
evolve together
rather than
doing one
evolving and
another fading
14.Authors

William
Thompson,Eric
Katz and
Andrew Light
William
Thompson was
an irish political
and philosphical
writer and social
reformer.
Andrew Light is
a university
Professor of
Philosophy and
public policy
and Director of
the institute for
philosphy and
public policy at
George Mason

Thompson,Katz
,Light
Scholar
-book

Controlling
technology:Co
ntemporary
issues.
Does
technology
control us or do
we control
technology?
What is and
what ought to
be the role of
technology in
human affairs
including
culture?

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University.

15.Scholar,

Gyekye

Kwame Gyekye

Scholarly
-BOOK

Is a ghanian
born
philospher,and
an important
figure in the
development of
modern African
philosophy.
He obtained his
Ph.D at Harvard
University.
He is currently a
professor of
Philosphy at the
University of
Ghana ,and a
visiting
Professor of
Philosphy and
African
American
Studies at
Temple
University.

Philosphy,cult
ure and vision.
Afrcan
Perspectives.
African
society can be
of considerable
relevance
because of the
impact this
ethic can have
on the
distributive
patterns in
respect of
economic
goods that will
result from the
application of
technology,in
this
respect,maximu
m impact of
technology in
african society
is achieved.