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

2024

Bender, Hendrik and Max Kanderske. 2024 (im Erscheinen). “Consumer Drone Warfare:Practices, Aesthetics and Discourses of Consumer Drones in the Russo-Ukrainian War”. In Drones in Society: New Visual Aesthetic, edited by Elisa Serafinelli. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

2023

Bender, Hendrik and Marcus Burkhardt. 2023. “Reinventing Drones: From DIY Experimentation to Professionalization”. Digital Culture & Society 9 (1): 125–152. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14361/dcs-2023-0107.

Bender, Hendrik. 2023. “Anhängliche Medien: Drohnen und die Erzeugung von Followability”. In Following. Medien der Gefolgschaft und Prozesse des Folgens. Ein kulturwissenschaftliches Kompendium, edited by Anne Ganzert, Philipp Hauser and Isabell Otto. Berlin: de Gruyter: 263–274. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110679137-025.

2022

Bender, Hendrik and Max Kanderske. 2022. “Co-Operative Aerial Images: A Geomedia History of the View from Above”. New Media & Society 24 (11): 2468–2492. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221122201.

2018

Bender, Hendrik (2018). “The New Aerial Age: Die wechselseitige Verfertigung gemeinsamer Raum- und Medienpraktiken am Beispiel von Drohnen-Communities”. In Kollaboration. Beiträge zur Medientheorie und Kulturgeschichte der Zusammenarbeit, edited by Isabel Otto, Samantha Schramm, Tristan Thielmann and Nacim Ghanbari, 121-146. Paderborn: Fink. DOI: https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846758403_008.