Aerial Play

Drone Medium, Mobility, Communication, and Culture
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-981-16-2194-9
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 207 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 413 g

Reihe: Geographies of Media

Winner of the prestigious Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology 2024.

This book explores recreational uses of consumer drones from the lenses of media ecology, mobile communication, mobilities research, and science and technology studies. In this provocative ethnography, Julia M. Hildebrand discusses camera drones as mobile media for meaningful play. She thus widens perspectives onto the flying camera as foremost unmanned aircraft, spying tool, or dangerous toy towards a more comprehensive understanding of its potentials.

How should we situate drone practices in recreational spaces? What ways of seeing, moving, and being do hobby drones open up? Across chapters about drone geography, communication, mobility, visuality, and human-machine relations, introduces novel frameworks for drone affordances, such as communication , disembodied mobilities, auratic vertical play, and drone-mindedness.

In the mobile companionship with her own drone, Hildebrand contributes an innovative “auto-technographic” method for the self-reflective study of media and mobility. Ultimately, her grounded and aerial fieldwork illuminates new technological, mobile, visual, and social relations in everyday spaces.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hildebrand, Julia M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction: Powerful Play.- Chapter 2: Understanding (with) the Drone.- Chapter 3: Situating Hobby Drone Proctices.- Chapter 4: Communicating on the Fly.- Chapter 5: Moving and Not Moving up in the Air.- Chapter 6: Seeing like a Consumer Drone.-  Chapter 7: Dancing with My Drone.- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Open Skies?.

Über Autor(innen)

Julia M. Hildebrand is Assistant Professor of Communication at Eckerd College. For her work on media, mobility, and drones, she has won multiple awards including the Harold A. Innis Award in the Field of Media Ecology.