drone activism

Drone Journalism and Community Voices

This paper aims to explore how Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), thanks
to its vertical spatiality and movement autonomy which allows the
conjuncture of above and below as a public space (Tuck S., 2018), could
provide materials to enhance a community-based narrative.
The growing use of drones in journalism, or “dronalism” (Goldberg et al.,
2013), brings a new perspective to both the traditional visual coverage of
news and the bottom-up journalistic practices, that rely mostly on mobile

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