Article ID: CBB383774280

Pandemic Drones: Promises and Perils (March 2021)

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When the novel coronavirus moved around the planet in early 2020, reconfiguring, slowing down, or halting everyday mobilities, another transport mode was mobilized: the pandemic drone. We highlight the increasing prominence of this aerial device by surveying international media coverage of pandemic drone use in the spring of 2020. To address a range of pandemic drone affordances and applications, we organize manifold cases under two broad categories: sensing and moving with the pandemic drone. Here we ask: what roles do, and could, drones play during the pandemic? Following the empirical examples and related mobilities research, we theorize the drone versus virus and the drone as virus. As such, the work identifies avenues for mobilities research into pandemic drones as a growing mobility domain. Moreover, in thinking through the pandemic drone, we demonstrate creative extensions of mobilities thinking that bridge biological and technological, as well as media and mobility frameworks when multiple public health and safety crises unfolded and intersected.

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Authors & Contributors
Simonutti, Luisa
John Aggrey
Abou Traore
Paige Miller
Katherine Chandler
Pablo Kreimer
Concepts
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Pandemics
Public health
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Medicine and society
Mobility
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
Places
Great Britain
Heathrow Airport
South Africa
China
Korea
India
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