Description
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Ideas
Introduction: Beyond Social Media
Chapter 1: Emergent and Disruptive Tools for the Public Good
Chapter 2: Democratizing Surveillance
Iterations
Chapter 3: Hacking Space
Chapter 4: The Camera's Politics
Chapter 5: Resisting Drones | Resistance Drones
Implications
Chapter 6: Some New Ideas about Protest Tech
Theoretical Afterward: The Technology of Politics, and the Politics of Technology
Notes
References
Index
