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  • Aerial Play: Drone Medium, Mobility, Communication, and Culture

    Aerial Play by Hildebrand, Julia M.;

    Drone Medium, Mobility, Communication, and Culture

    Series: Geographies of Media;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1st ed. 2021
    • Publisher Springer Nature Singapore
    • Date of Publication 17 July 2021
    • Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book

    • ISBN 9789811621949
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages207 pages
    • Size 210x148 mm
    • Weight 428 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations XXI, 207 p. 17 illus., 15 illus. in color. Illustrations, black & white
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    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, 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.

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    Table of Contents:

    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?.

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