Drones : media discourse and the public imagination / Kevin Howley.
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Language: | English |
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New York :
Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.,
[2018]
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Physical Description: | xxxii, 283 pages ; 23 cm |
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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.