{"id":405150,"date":"2017-11-17T09:52:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T13:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=8ad3efb5a5a92dce38220e3739d44eb8"},"modified":"2017-11-17T09:52:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T13:52:59","slug":"expert-discusses-drones-warfare-and-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=405150","title":{"rendered":"Expert discusses drones, warfare and the media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drones have become a common part of warfare\u2014but their use remains a subject of public contention. Lisa Parks, a professor in MIT&#8217;s program in Comparative Media Studies\/Writing and director of its Global Media Technologies and Cultures Lab, has spent extensive time analyzing this public debate. Now, she has co-edited a new volume examining the subject, while contributing a piece to it herself. The book, &#8220;Life in the Age of Drone Warfare,&#8221; has just been published by Duke University Press. MIT News talked with Parks this week about the impact and public perception of drones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drones have become a common part of warfare&mdash;but their use remains a subject of public contention. Lisa Parks, a professor in MIT&#8217;s program in Comparative Media Studies\/Writing and director of its Global Media Technologies and Cultures Lab, has spent extensive time analyzing this public debate. Now, she has co-edited a new volume examining the subject, while contributing a piece to it herself. The book, &#8220;Life in the Age of Drone Warfare,&#8221; has just been published by Duke University Press. MIT News talked with Parks this week about the impact and public perception of drones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=405150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405151,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405150\/revisions\/405151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}