Hendrik Bender studied Social Science/Media Studies (B.A.) and Media Culture (M.A.) at the University of Siegen. Since 2018 he works as a scientific assistant at the project "Navigation in Online/Offline Spaces" which is part of the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) Media of Cooperation at the University of Siegen. His current research focuses on the analysis of cooperative spatial and media practices by the example of flying cameras.

• Drone Media
• Media Geography
• Science and Technology Studies

Bender, Hendrik (2018): „The New Aerial Age: Die wechselseitige Verfertigung gemeinsamer Raum- und Medienpraktiken am Beispiel von Drohnen-Communities“, in: Nacim Ghanbari u.a. (Hg): Kollaboration. Beiträge zur Medientheorie und Kulturgeschichte der Zusammenarbeit. Paderborn: Fink (forthcoming). Conferences and Workshops: Bender, Hendrik (2016, November): „ How to Study Drone Practices?“, Mobile Interface Methods Workshop. Collaborative Research Centre „Media of Cooperation“, University of Siegen, Germany Bender, Hendrik (2016, April): „Drone Media: Navigation and operative imagery of flying cameras“, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco.