[csaa-forum] Book Announcement

[Kevin Howley]

 *Apologies for cross-posting*

Book Release November 30, 2017

*Drones: Media Discourse & The Public Imagination*
By Kevin Howley (Peter Lang, 2018)

ISBN-13: 978-1433126406
ISBN-10: 1433126400

*Drones: Media Discourse & The Public Imagination* starts with a basic
premise: technology shapes and is shaped by the stories we tell about it.
Stories about drones – at once anxious and hopeful, fearful and
awe-inspired – are emblematic of the profound ambivalence that frequently
accompanies the introduction of new technologies. Through critical analysis
of a variety of cultural forms – from newspaper headlines, nightly
newscasts, and documentary films to advertising, entertainment media, and
graphic arts — this book demonstrates the prevalence of drones in global
battlefields and domestic airspace, public discourse and the popular
imagination. Written in a lively, engaging and accessible style, Kevin
Howley argues that media discourse plays a decisive role in *shaping* these
new technologies, *understanding* their application in various spheres of
human activity, and *integrating* them into everyday life. Doing so, Howley
highlights the relationship between discursive and material practice in the
social construction of technology.

About the Author

Kevin Howley is Professor of Media Studies at DePauw University. His work
has appeared in the *Journal of Radio Studies*, *Journalism: Theory,
Practice and Criticism*, *Social Movement Studies* and *Television and New
Media*. He is author of *Community Media: People, Places, and Communication
Technologies* (2005), and editor of *Understanding Community Media* (2010)
and *Media Interventions* (2013).

Contents

Introduction: “Don’t Call Them Drones”

Part I Perpetual War

1. Technological Dreams and Killing Machines, or Drones and The Sublime

2. A New Kind of War

3. Murder Incorporated


Part II Domesticating Drones

4. Unmanned: Drones for Fun and Profit

5. Eye in the Sky: Regimes of Surveillance

6. Reporting the Drone Wars


Part III Witnessing

7. Survivors Speak

8. Mr. Al-Muslimi Goes to Washington

9. Distributed Intimacies: Robotic Warfare and Drone Whistleblowers


Part IV Resistance

10. Direct Action and Media Activism

11. “I Have a Drone”: Internet Memes and Digital Dissent

12. Think Locally, Bomb Globally: Satirizing Drones

Conclusion: Twenty-First Century Empire and Communication


Endorsements

“*Drones: Media Discourse & The Public Imagination* is a timely publication
that will contribute significant and even urgent perspectives to the
burgeoning literature on drones. Locating itself at the intersection where
scholarship from media, communication and technology studies enter into a
productive interdisciplinary conversation, it is indispensable for its
critical attention to a broad field of cultural expressions, demonstrating
how media discourse not only shapes our understanding and application of
drone technology, but also its very production.”

– Øyvind Vågnes, University of Bergen

“Kevin Howley has put together an impressive chronicle of what the media
talks about when it talks about drones. This book will no doubt serve as a
key resource for anybody hoping to better understand the complex and
shifting dynamics of prevailing public sentiment about US military drone
use.”

– Arthur Holland Michel, Co-Director of the Center for the Study of the
Drone, Bard College

Available in paperback, hardback and eBook editions at Peter Lang
<https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/30894?rskey=cz5UQO&result=1> and
wherever fine books are sold.

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Kevin Howley, Ph.D.
Professor of Media Studies
Department of Communication
DePauw University
600 S. Locust St.
Greencastle, IN  46135
Twitter: @thekhowley
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