This article aims to explore the connection between drones and alternative journalistic narratives for local communities. Starting from the frame of digital technologies domestication, we explore how UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) could allow mediated practices of mobilization and resistance.
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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