The Brilliant

Abstract

This chapter examines the proposition that drone technologies are a force for good and discusses a number of applications that have become prominent within this category. It investigates how drones are being used within a growing number of sectors, including leisure, research, health, journalism, and sports, and analysing the development of such pursuits and their implications. It focusses on what resides behind the desire to re-characterise drones as objects of desire – and products more generally – and as vehicles for positive social change. Central to this chapter is the claim that drones are vehicles for asserting agency and competence over technology, but that there is also a trend towards the erosion of skills required to operate such devices, which undermines their overall evaluation has sources of empowerment.

Citation

Miah, A. (2020), "The Brilliant", Drones: The Brilliant, the Bad and the Beautiful (Society Now), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 65-88. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83867-985-920201004