Hi Illana, Thanks for sharing this, I try to follow drone conversations. That book might be a nice companion to my chapter on Delivery Drones: Obstacles and Sociability from 2016: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-6265-132-6_4 Best, Sally
On Nov 6, 2022, at 11:00 PM, Ilana Gershon via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear Colleagues, CaMP anthropology blog just posted an interview with Julia M. Hildebrand on her book *Aerial Play: Drone Medium, Mobility, Communication, and Culture. *
Check it out here: https://campanthropology.org
Best, Ilana
Press blurb: This book explores recreational uses of consumer drones from the lenses of media ecology, mobile communication, mobilities research, and science and technology studies. In this provocative ethnography, Julia M. Hildebrand discusses camera drones as mobile media for meaningful play. She thus widens perspectives onto the flying camera as foremost unmanned aircraft, spying tool, or dangerous toy towards a more comprehensive understanding of its potentials.
How should we situate drone practices in recreational spaces? What ways of seeing, moving, and being do hobby drones open up? Across chapters about drone geography, communication, mobility, visuality, and human-machine relations, *Aerial Play* introduces novel frameworks for drone affordances, such as communication *on the fly*, disembodied mobilities, auratic vertical play, and drone-mindedness.
In the mobile companionship with her own drone, Hildebrand contributes an innovative “auto-technographic” method for the self-reflective study of media and mobility. Ultimately, her grounded and aerial fieldwork illuminates new technological, mobile, visual, and social relations in everyday spaces. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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