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Aerial play : drone medium, mobility, communication, and culture / Julia M. Hildebrand.

9789811621956 (electronic bk.)
9811621950 (electronic bk.)
9789811621949
9811621942

Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

©2021

English

1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color)

10.1007/978-981-16-2195-6 doi

TL685.35 .H55 2021

629.133/39
304.2

"In a short amount of time, drones have become a ubiquitous technology. And while scholarly attention has been focused on commercial and military contexts, the recreational drone has been relatively overlooked. That is, until Aerial Play: Drone Medium, Mobility, Communication and Culture. Aerial Play addresses some of the complex debates around quotidian surveillance and mundane mobilities and how these practices recalibrate how we understand media ecology, mobile communication, mobilities research, and science and technology studies. Traversing themes such as drone geography, communication, mobility and new visualities, Aerial Play explores how drones can help us reinvent our digital methods. Hildebrand's playful and yet robust approach to drones encourages us to rethink the paradigm between media and mobility."--Larissa Hjorth, RMIT University, Australia "In Aerial Play, Julia M. Hildebrand provides a serious, scholarly, and accessible study of a highly significant new medium that is altering the world that we live in, and the way that we view ourselves. Drones are not simply toys, they are our future, and this book offers us essential aid in understanding this important aspect of our evolving media environment. Drawing on the powerful tools made available via the media ecology intellectual tradition, combined with a multidisciplinary methodology, Hildebrand delivers an analysis that is both rigorous and readable, and above all insightful and provocative. Read it, and you will never look up at the sky in the same way again!" -Lance Strate, Fordham University, USA "Dr. Hildebrand offers no-nonsense and straightforward insights into one of the growing niches of drone practices: flying for fun! Written at the crossroads of mobilities and media studies, Aerial Play is a must-read for students, researchers within media, mobilities, geography, and technology studies. Recreational drone flyers may indeed also find it useful." -Ole B. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark.-- Provided by publisher

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