How small-scale drones, satellites, kites, and balloons are used by social movements for the greater good
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
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.
"The Good Drone’s very engaging, accessible, and timely account of
the importance of material, not just digital, technologies to
social movements, is a must-read for anyone interested in
understanding how technologies present new opportunities and perils
for protesters."
– Jennifer Earl, sociologist and coauthor of Digitally Enabled
Social Change
"ChoiFitzpatrick brings deep thought and research together with
years of practical experience in writing this insightful account of
technology's effects on politics and politics’ effects on
technology."
– Steven Livingston, Director of the Institute for Data, Democracy,
and Politics, George Washington University
"It’s hard to know where to start in praise of The Good Drone,
but why not with the drone. Just when movement scholars
thought they had awakened to the implications of the digital
revolution, along comes Choi-Fitzpatrick challenging us to theorize
the impact of drones and other cutting-edge technologies on the
dynamics of contention. Then there is the inherent fascination
of the cases he explores. But for my money, the last chapter
of the book is alone worth the price of admission. In it, he
sets the new technologies aside to remind us that technology
has always powerfully shaped contention, with a
compelling revisionist tour of social movement theory to make his
case."
– Doug McAdam, Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology,
Stanford University
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