Format:
1 Online-Ressource (208 pages)
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
9781501309458
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9781628925258
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1628925256
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9781628926323
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1628926325
Series Statement:
Object lessons
Content:
Introduction -- Chapter One: Four Technology Stories -- Chapter Two: The Military Drone -- Chapter Three: The Commercial Drone (or the hole where it ought to be) -- Chapter Four: Blinking Lights -- Chapter Five: Software and Hardware -- Chapter Six: The Non-Drone -- Chapter Seven: What the Drone is For -- Chapter Eight: The Drone in Discourse -- Chapter Nine: Drone Fiction -- Chapter Ten: Ourselves and the Drone -- Chapter Eleven: Aesthetics of the Drone -- Chapter Twelve: The Drone as Meme -- List of Images -- Bibliography -- Notes.
Content:
"Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Drones are in the newspaper, on the TV screen, swarming through the networks, and soon, we're told, they'll be delivering our shopping. But what are drones? The word encompasses everything from toys to weapons. And yet, as broadly defined as they are, the word ?drone? fills many of us with a sense of technological dread. Adam Rothstein cuts through the mystery, the unknown, and the political posturing, and talks about what drones really are: what technologies are out there, and what's coming next; how drones are talked about, and how they are represented in popular culture. It turns out that drones are not as scary as they appear-but they are more complicated than you might expect. Drones reveal the strange relationships that humans are forming with their new technologies. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Barrierefreier Inhalt: Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781628926323
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Rothstein, Adam Drone London : Bloomsbury, 2015 ISBN 9781628926323
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781501309458
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