Abstract or Keywords
Roughly ten years ago, a new "mobile medium" entered the public discourse: the consumer drone. Since then, the technology has entered private, public and commercial spaces beyond its military ties. Yet questions remain about how consumer drones impact users, reconfigure adjacent technologies such as the smartphone and influence contemporary visual culture along with emerging socio-technical environments such as the internet of things. To explore these questions, I draw on data from ethnographic and auto-technographic fieldwork, semi-structured user interviews and ongoing socio-cultural trends and developments. The chapter's goal is to further unpack such human-machine entanglements in civilian drone contexts. Moreover, research into them can open up provocative intellectual avenues for mobile media and the future of mediated communication more generally.