The Good Drone - How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance (Acting with Technology)
epub | 30.4 MB | English | Author :Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick | B084V85ZNC | 2020 | MIT Press

Book Description :

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.

Category : | Social Aspects of Technology, National & International Security, General Technology & Reference