Drone journalism is very much ‘for real’. It offers everyday people the ability to see events distantly and to convey scale and sequences of events in a way that only individuals / organizations with lots of money could previously. We can see our leaders’ fear of this journalistic peoples’ force in the way they are struggling to regulate our use of drones…
I do wish that it were easier to use drones to document realtime injustice – the battery life and environmental factors that make drones vulnerable are so prohibitive!
One site I might be interested in exploring with a drone is Dead Horse Bay, a continuously-leaking landfill and the home of a former horse-processing facility…
