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Drones : media discourse and the public imagination /

Drones: Media Discourse and 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 intro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Howley, Kevin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., [2018]
Subjects:
Drone aircraft > In mass media.
Drone aircraft.
Discourse analysis > Social aspects.
Mass media > Social aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Don't call them drones
  • Part I. Perpetual war
  • Technological dreams and killing machines, or drones and the sublime
  • A new kind of war
  • Murder incorporated
  • Part II. Domesticating drones
  • Unmanned: drones for fun and profit
  • Eye in the sky: regimes of surveillance
  • Reporting the drone wars
  • Part III. Witnessing
  • Survivors speak
  • Mr. Al-Muslimi goes to Washington
  • Distributed intimacies: robotic warfare and drone whistleblowers
  • Part IV. 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.