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How are drones influencing commerce and surveillance in the media?

Drones have become very big in the media industry in the past couple years, from seeing aerial views of places no one could reach or by just getting a grand picture of an event to show its size and popularity; they’re even used in music videos. Drones have become a problem as well though be …

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Drones

Having learned about drones years ago, this was an interesting expansion on my knowledge of them. One article mentioned that drones came about in the mid-20th century. There are four types of drones: three military level types and one regular type known as hobbyist drones. They started as a military technology and are still prominent …

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Drones

Unmanned aerial vehicle or drones are in the transition from military use to hobbyist use, with the danger of invasion of privacy (personal and government),  hackers, and terrorism with these gadgets in ordinary hands. “they deal with legal issues, creativity and aesthetics, power, ” Maximilian Jablonowski said. It’s a shame too, as a recent post …

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DRONES ..

Anissa Mayhew MCS   Drones are a rather new technology that’s changing the game with drones influencing commerce and surveillance in the media. Drones are capable of doing things and taking pictures that a human just simply cannot do from angles to speed.” Drones are widely perceived as complex technical systems employing professional infrastructures, cutting-edge …

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Drones

To be quiet honest, drones was something I’ve seen and have known about but didn’t know the name of. So when it was first bought to our attention in class I was a bit dumbfounded. As the class went on of course, what a drone was and does definitely became much clearer. In my opinion, …

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How are drones influencing commerce and surveillance in the media?

When these drone things were brought to my attention, the very first thing that popped up into my mind was: The invasion of one’s privacy. As if having an automatic toilet isn’t good enough, these flying gadgets come along! “Within the last year media coverage on actual and potential civil drone uses appears to have …

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Welcome to Intro to Media and Digital Culture – Fall 2016!

Class starting on August 30th!