Dronie citizenship?

Abstract

The chapter draws attention to a new digital media practice: the dronie. This recently coined term designates short videos people take of themselves with the help of consumer drones in order to share them via social media platforms such as Vimeo, Twitter or Instagram. Jablonowski departs from the dronie's aesthetic genealogies, the selfie and aerial videography, and describes the dronie's distinct aesthetics of verticality. He discusses how these are related to the epistemological and political dispositifs of the aerial view and the vertical politics of drone warfare and aerial surveillance. The chapter concludes with a case for 'dronie citizenship' that does not fear drones, but explores their ambiguous powers and pleasures.