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Shaping science : organizations, decisions, and culture on NASA's teams /

Janet Vertesi, Author | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press | Chicago scholarship online | 2021

"Shaping Science draws on a decade of immersive ethnography with NASA's robotic spacecraft teams to create a comparative account of two great space missions of the early 2000s. Although these missions appear to involve robotic explorers gatherin[...]

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Houston, we have a narrative : why science needs story /

Randy Olson, Author | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press | 2015

Ask a scientist about Hollywood, and you'll probably get eye rolls. But ask someone in Hollywood about science, and they'll see dollar signs: moviemakers know that science can be the source of great stories, with all the drama and action that bl[...]

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Seeing like a Rover : how robots, teams, and images craft knowledge of Mars /

Janet Vertesi, Author | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press | 2015

With Seeing Like a Rover, Janet Vertesi takes us behind the scenes to reveal the work that goes into creating our knowledge of Mars. Every photograph that the Rovers take, she shows, must be processed, manipulated, and interpreted--and all that[...]

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SuperVision : an introduction to the surveillance society /

John Gilliom, Author ; Torin Monahan, Author | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press | 2013

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