[Air-L] a new book on drones

[S.A. Applin]

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 at 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.
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