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The Good Drone: how social movements democratize surveillance
"'This is a short, engagingly written academic trade-style book looking at aerial technologies-with particular emphasis on drones, followed by satellites, and some bits about balloons and kites-and how those technologies are/have been used for the public good, particularly by the activist and social movement crowd. The author argues that social movements regularly use technology to challenge po…
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- 026235845X
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- 1 online resource (xv, 308 pages) :illustrations (black and white).
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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. …
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- 9780262358453
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- 623.7469
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