Aerial Play - Drone Medium, Mobility, Communication, and Culture (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)

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, Aerial Play introduces novel frameworks for drone affordances, such as communication on the fly, 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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	Singapore
Series:	Geographies of Media
Release date:	July 2022
First published:	2021
Authors:	Julia M. Hildebrand
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	207
Edition:	1st ed. 2021
ISBN-13:	978-981-16-2197-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General
LSN:	981-16-2197-7
Barcode:	9789811621970

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