Technology and the Local Community

Uses of Drones in #NoDapl Movement and Dandora Dumpsite Storytelling

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ID3757754
AuthorsGaia Casagrande (0009-0003-7648-1218, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, corresponding author), Mohamed Amine Khaddar (Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy), Stefania Parisi (0000-0003-4808-4664, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy)
Year2020
Volume64
Issue13
Pages1906-1920
Publication date2020-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764220952133
OpenAlexW3081844006
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited17

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. By adopting an exploratory approach, we considered two case studies of drone journalism related to specific community issues that share similar characteristics of social inequalities and environmental risks and analyzed the journalistic work by Digital Smoking Signal, related to the #NoDAPL protests, and the African skyCAM reconstruction of the Dandora dumpsite in Kenya. As a result, we are able to show how the appropriation and use of drones can help communities to highlight some underinvestigated social issues. The analysis underlines two different ways of using drone technology to support the local community's narrative, based on the level of involvement of the journalists in the community cause itself

Appropriation · Drone · Narrative · Political science · Public relations · Social media · Sociology · Storytelling · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Global Security and Public Health · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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