Название: The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance (Acting with Technology)
Автор: Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick
Издательство: MIT Press
Год: 2020
Формат: epub
Страниц: 187
Размер: 30,4 МБ
Язык: English

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.