Drones: Media Discourse and the Public Imagination

ISBN-13: 9781433126406 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 284 str.

Kevin Howley

Opis

Drones: Media Discourse & The Public Imagination starts with a basic premise: technology shapes and is shaped by the stories we tell about it. Stories about drones - at once anxious and hopeful, fearful and awe-inspired - are emblematic of the profound ambivalence that frequently accompanies the introduction of new technologies.

Recenzje

«[...] Howley's book offers a rich and challenging contribution to the field.»
(European Journal of Communication 33/2018)

Spis treści

Figures - Preface - Introduction: Don't Call Them Drones - Perpetual War - Technological Dreams and Killing Machines, or Drones and the Sublime - A New Kind of War - Murder Incorporated - Domesticating Drones - Unmanned: Drones for Fun and Profit - Eye in the Sky: New Surveillance Regimes - Reporting the Drone Wars - Witnessing - Survivors Speak - Mr. Al-Muslimi Goes to Washington - Distributed Intimacies: Robotic Warfare and Drone Whistleblowers - Resistance - Direct Action and Media Activism - "I Have a Drone": Internet Memes and Digital Dissent - Think Locally, Bomb Globally: Satirizing Drones - Conclusion: Twenty-First Century Empire and Communication - Index.

O autorze

Kevin Howley is Professor of Media Studies at DePauw University. His work has appeared in the Journal of Radio Studies, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, Social Movement Studies, and Television and New Media. He is author of Community Media: People, Places, and Communication Technologies (2005), and editor of Understanding Community Media (2010) and Media Interventions (2013).