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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495205803321

Autore

Hildebrand Julia M.

Titolo

Aerial Play : Drone Medium, Mobility, Communication, and Culture / / by Julia M. Hildebrand

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9789811621956

9811621950

9789811621949

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)

Collana

Geographies of Media, , 3005-0138

Disciplina

623.7469

Soggetti

Human geography

Communication

Science - Social aspects

Human Geography

Media and Communication

Science and Technology Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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?.

Sommario/riassunto

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.