The Good Drone
How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance
Published on 28. July 2020
324 pages
978-0-262-35846-0 (ISBN)
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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.
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.
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Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick is Associate Professor of Political Sociology at the Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego and concurrent Rights Lab Associate Professor of Social Movements and Human Rights at the University of Nottingham's School of Sociology and Social Policy.
Content
Acknowledgments
Ideas
Introduction: Beyond Social Media
Chapter 1: Emergent and Disruptive Tools for the Public Good
Chapter 2: Democratizing Surveillance
Iterations
Chapter 3: Hacking Space
Chapter 4: The Camera's Politics
Chapter 5: Resisting Drones | Resistance Drones
Implications
Chapter 6: Some New Ideas about Protest Tech
Theoretical Afterward: The Technology of Politics, and the Politics of Technology
Notes
References
Index
Ideas
Introduction: Beyond Social Media
Chapter 1: Emergent and Disruptive Tools for the Public Good
Chapter 2: Democratizing Surveillance
Iterations
Chapter 3: Hacking Space
Chapter 4: The Camera's Politics
Chapter 5: Resisting Drones | Resistance Drones
Implications
Chapter 6: Some New Ideas about Protest Tech
Theoretical Afterward: The Technology of Politics, and the Politics of Technology
Notes
References
Index
