The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance
How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance
- Editore:
MIT PR
- Collana:
- Acting with Technology
- EAN:
9780262538886
- ISBN:
0262538881
- Pagine:
- 320
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance
How small-scale drones, satellites, kites, and balloons are used by social movements for the greater good.Drones are famous for doing bad things: weaponized, they implement remote-control war; used for surveillance, they threaten civil liberties and violate privacy. In The Good Drone, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick examines a different range of uses: the deployment of drones for the greater good. Choi-Fitzpatrick analyzes the way small-scale drones—as well as satellites, kites, and balloons—are used for a great many things, including documenting human rights abuses, estimating demonstration crowd size, supporting anti-poaching advocacy, and advancing climate change research. In fact, he finds, small drones are used disproportionately for good; nonviolent prosocial uses predominate.