1st Edition
Who’s Afraid of AI? Intercultural Aspirations, Frictions and Fantasies
Chapter 1. Fearing our own reflections in AI
Fred Dervin and Hamza R’boul
Part I: Foundations: AI, Interculturality and Ideology
Chapter 2. Speaking back to AI (and ourselves): Generative epistemic (in)justice in intercultural communication education
Sara Hillman
Chapter 3. Magic mirror on the wall, who is the evilest ideologue of all? AI, interculturality and/or we, the users…?
Ning Chen and Fred Dervin
Chapter 4. Coloniality of artificiality: Ontological critique and AI as critical interculturalist?
Hamza R’boul and El Mehdi Bellaarabi
Part II: Decolonial Interventions: Beyond ‘Western’ AI?
Chapter 5. AI and intercultural communication: Cultural nuances beyond theoretical constraints
Azeddine Belmeddah and Mounir Chibi
Chapter 6. In search of justifiable AI governance for Africa
Isaiah A. Negedu and Oluwaseun T. Babatuyi
Chapter 7. African Ubuntu, relational being and AI
Parker Robinson and Dorine van Norren
Chapter 8. Cultural futures: Governance, cultural policy and the political economy of AI in the Creative and Cultural Industries
Aziz Qaissi
Biography
Fred Dervin is a world-renowned interculturalist who has made a strong impact on Intercultural Communication Education and Research over the past 25 years. A Full Professor at the University of Helsinki (Finland), Dervin proposes original and refreshing approaches to understanding the politics of global interactions by challenging conventional paradigms and blending interdisciplinary insights. His work aims to inspire practitioners, researchers, and students to rethink and reshape the notion of interculturality. With over 300 publications, Dervin is included in the Stanford Elsevier List of the world’s best scientists.
Hamza R’boul is a fellow at the Centre for Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies (CHELPS), The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. His research interests include intercultural education, (higher) education in the Global South, decolonial endeavours in education, cultural politics of language teaching, and postcoloniality.
