Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick

Technology matters for political communication, but tools and tech also shape what movements do, and how they do it. This chapter introduces important conceptual tools for explaining when and why change agents make the decisions that they do.

Social media's not the only technology that matters for politics! Drones, satellites, kites, and balloons democratize data gathering and even surveillance.

Activists, researchers, and non-profit types all over the world are using drones to disrupt the status quo. This work is new and disruptive.

Everyone's always talking about photography and the image. I, however, am in love with the camera. Where'd it come from? Where is it going? What's it mean for politics?

New technologies themselves become the focus of political attention. How do people resist drones and how are drones used for resistance?

Drones and satellites aren't the only technology that matters for politics. Advocacy efforts have long used technology to gather data, spread the word, and to stop the police in their tracks.

I wrote this book out of fascination and frustration. Fascination with a range of new technologies like drones and satellites, and frustration with how much of their potential was overlooked by folks studying politics.