Visualizations of the small military drone: normalization through ‘naturalization’

Jackman, Anna

doi:10.1080/23337486.2020.1846955

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“…Here, Draganfly’s visualisations (Figures 2 to 4) help reveal the dynamics of the automated decision-making software embedded within the proposed pandemic drone. As Jackman (2022a: 3) writes in ‘re-approaching the more-than-military drone’ through its visualisation in ‘patents and speculative design’, visualisations remain under-examined as sites of normalisation and imagination, ‘domains’ in and through which drones are imagined, ‘made’ and ‘normalised’ (Jackman, 2022b) and those which remain active in shaping ‘the way we think, see and dream’ (Mitchell in Bissell and Fuller, 2017: 2487). Such work recognises the visual as at once ‘performative’ in its speculation and imagination of potential (techno-)futures (Kinsley, 2010: 2271) and encompassing of a ‘politics of anticipation’ therein (Bissell and Del Casino, 2017: 439).…”

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Where are the pandemic drones? On the ‘failure’ of automated aerial solutionism

Jackman,

Richardson,

Veber

2024

New Media & Society

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In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, excitement broke out around the potential for drones to generate aerial solutions to devilish pandemic problems. But despite the hype, pandemic drones largely failed to take to the sky and far from the scale initially imagined. This article pursues the failure of the pandemic drone to materialise, showing how it nevertheless functioned as a locus of experimentation for remote logics and processes. As such, we shift focus away from what the pandemic drone is to if and where it – or its logics – can be found. To learn from the pandemic drone, we turn to three trajectories of failure: failure as experiment, failure as imaginary and failure as glitch. With particular attention to specific case studies, we show how failure enables drone logics and processes to migrate across various socio-technical forms, sites and applications of automated decision-making responses to the pandemic.

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Where are the pandemic drones? On the ‘failure’ of automated aerial solutionism

Jackman,

Richardson,

Veber

2024

New Media & Society

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“…Since the rapid expansion of drones beyond military contexts, many scholars have turned their attention to off-the-shelf consumer drones and their everyday usage by entrepreneurs, hobbyists, citizen scientists and artists alike (Jackman, 2021; Richardson, 2020). This democratization of the drone has advanced studies in drone vision and visuality, with research being conducted on how drones reshape our vertical publics through new modes of relational experience (McCosker, 2015a; Garrett and McCosker, 2017), how they create a ‘new camera consciousness’ (McCosker, 2015b; McCosker and Wilken, 2020) and how they diversify traditional meanings of verticality and undermine the singular notion of the panoptic gaze (Mangold and Goehring, 2019; Zuev and Bratchford, 2020).…”

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Drone views: a multimodal ethnographic perspective

Serafinelli

O’Hangan

2022

Visual Communication

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Drone visuals are rapidly becoming part of our sociocultural imaginaries, generating distinct images that differ from traditional visual conventions and producing unexpected perspectives of the world that reveal hidden aspects of our surroundings. Despite the growing use of camera-laden drones in a range of commercial and non-commercial activities, to date, little scholarly attention has been paid to the semiotics of drone visuals. This article is the first to draw specific attention to the compositional structure of drone visuals, combining social semiotic analysis with ethnographic insights to assess how they are changing the way we think about the world. Exploring drone hobbyists’ and developers’ perspectives on drone usage and the visuals they generate, the authors identify and examine three frequently occurring characteristics of drone visuals: top-down views, 360-degree panoramic views and ‘classic’ landscape perspectives. The critical analysis of these peculiarities leads them to argue for the potential of these innovative visions to reshape our visual culture. In their conclusion, the authors aim to open a conversation about the way technological advancements mark important sociocultural changes in sense-making processes, geographical imaginations and everyday life experiences.

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“…For example, while fruitful, existing methodologically-focused drone scholarship largely explores the drone as it visualizes (Garrett and Anderson, 2018;Birtchnell and Gibson, 2015;Fish et al, 2017), rather than as it is visualized, visually represented across diverse media. Here we can draw lessons from work exploring both the wider visual cultures of the military drone (Grayson and Mawdsley, 2019), and the role of the drone's visual representation in select media in the forging of drone imaginations (Stahl, 2013;Jackman, 2021). Following the notion that 'not only power shapes the visual field, but the visual field executes power' (Mitchell in Maurer 2017, p.142), scholars have explored different and 'competing ways in which drone warfare is made sensible' (Van Veeren, 2013, n.p), contending that visualizations act to 'normalize' the drone in important ways (Jackman, 2021).…”

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“…Here we can draw lessons from work exploring both the wider visual cultures of the military drone (Grayson and Mawdsley, 2019), and the role of the drone's visual representation in select media in the forging of drone imaginations (Stahl, 2013;Jackman, 2021). Following the notion that 'not only power shapes the visual field, but the visual field executes power' (Mitchell in Maurer 2017, p.142), scholars have explored different and 'competing ways in which drone warfare is made sensible' (Van Veeren, 2013, n.p), contending that visualizations act to 'normalize' the drone in important ways (Jackman, 2021). Extending such analysis, this article approaches the more-than-military drone through the under-examined sites of the patent and speculative design, interrogating their role in anticipating, compelling, and propelling particular technourban drone futures.…”

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confidence: 99%