Aerial Play: Drone Medium, Mobility, Communication, and Culture

Series Editors’ Preface
	THE SKY AIN’T THE LIMIT
	Works Cited
Acknowledgments
Praise for Aerial Play
Contents
About the Author
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction: Powerful Play
	Consumer Drone Origins and Developments
	Discourses About Drones
	Approaches for the Aerial Medium
	(H)Overview of the Book
	References
2 Understanding (with) the Drone
	Introduction
	Theory: Hybrid Research/er
	Drone-Logs
	Auto-Affective Mobilities
	Conclusion
	References
3 Situating Hobby Drone Practices
	Introduction
	Theory: Media and Mobilities In Situ
	Drone Ecologies and Mobile Agencies
		Temporal Factors
		Spatial Factors
		Mobile Factors
		Social Factors
	Drone Geomedia and Cybermobilities
	Conclusion
	References
4 Communicating on the Fly
	Introduction
	Theory: Mobile Media and Space
	Drone Spatialities: Physical, Networked, Social
		Mediating Physical Space
		Mediating Networked Space
		Mediating Social Space
	Conclusion
	References
5 Moving and Not Moving Up in the Air
	Introduction
	Theory: Embodied Performances and Media Extensions
	Drone (Im)mobilities: Body, Drone, Space
		Remediated Mobilities
		Corporeal Mobilities
		Imaginative Mobilities
		Dis/Embodied Mobilities
	Conclusion
	References
6 Seeing like a Consumer Drone
	Introduction
	Theory: The Aerial Gaze
	Drone Visualities: Auratic Vertical Play
		What Consumer Drones See: Auratic Views
		How Consumer Drones See: Vertical Play
			Map-Reading and Way-Finding
			Techniques of Surveillance/Techniques of Vision and Visualization
			Virtual Play/Vertical Play
		How Consumers Start to See: Remote Drone-Mindedness
	Conclusion
	References
7 Dancing with My Drone
	Introduction
	Theory: Human-Medium Relationships
	Drone Relationalities: Mobile Companionship
		Addressing the Drone: Affective Relationships with a Relational Artifact
		Describing the Drone: My Friend, Co-writer, and Witness
		Inter/Intra-Acting with the Drone: Dancing with My Drone
			User-Drone Interactions
			User-Drone Intra-Actions
	Conclusion
	References
8 Conclusion: Open Skies?
	Laws of Hobby Drone Media
		Enhancement
		Obsolescence
		Retrieval
		Reversal
	Avenues for Future Research
	Right to Fly Remotely
	References
Index