Binding: Paperback
Description: Drawing on a decade of immersive ethnography with NAS a's robotic spacecraft teams to create a comparative account of two great space missions of the early 2000s Janet Vertesi uncovers how the social organization of a scientific team affects their scientific practices and results. In Shaping Science Janet Vertesi draws on a decade of immersive ethnography with NAS a's robotic spacecraft teams to create a comparative account of two great space missions of the early 2000s. Although these missions featured robotic explorers on the frontiers of the solar system bravely investigating new worlds their commands were issued from millions of miles away by a very human team. By examining the two teams formal structures decision - making techniques and informal work practices in the day - to - day process of mission planning Vertesi shows just how deeply entangled a team's local organizational context is with the knowledge they produce about other worlds. Using extensive embedded experiences on two NAS a spacecraft teams this is the first book to apply organizational studies of work to the laboratory environment in order to analyze the production of scientific knowledge itself. Engaging and deeply researched Shaping Science demonstrates the significant influence that the social organization of a scientific team can have on the practices of that team and the results they yield.
Title: Shaping Science Organizations Decisions And Culture On Nasa's Teams
Author(s): Vertesi Janet
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226829555
Pages: 352 Pages, 12 Halftones
Publication Date: 9/5/2023
Category: Space Science