The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance (Acting with Technology)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 1965
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- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780262358460
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780262538886
- Publisher:
- MIT Press
- Date of Addition:
- 07/28/20
- Copyrighted By:
- The MIT Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Technology, Social Studies, Politics and Government, Sociology
- Grade Levels:
- College Junior
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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