Dowd is long established as an expert in the overlapping fields of technology and human behavior, and Digital Journalism, Drones, and Automation further cements this reputation. The importance of a wide variety of relevant technologies are identified in this book, including social media, smartphones, aviation, big data, gaming, and algorithms, and the impacts of these technologies on human behavior, emotion, and language are considered in innovative detail. This book
is bound to become essential reading for those teaching, researching, and working in these fields.
Cate Dowd is a Media Studies Lecturer at the University of New England in Australia.