@article{1386280,
      author = {Mirmalek, Zara,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1386280},
      title = {Making time on Mars /},
      abstract = {"Making Time on Mars is a book about people, robots,  processes and intuitions working together to make time on  Mars. In early 2004, for over ninety days NASA's Mars  Exploration Rovers mission set their daily work activities  on Earth according to "Mars time" clocks. Two local Mars  times, one for each of the two Mars rovers, drove work  timelines for all mission members. A successful mission  that resulted in new discoveries and scientific knowledge,  it is a fascinating case of how time and work relationships  are produced through cultural features shaped by everyday  work activities, organizational infrastructure, and social  and historical context. Though time is an organizing  principle in most workplaces, it is not traditionally a  particularly exciting part of daily work. But, within the  context of a mission to Mars, familiar time and work  relationships are rendered strange, and strangely familiar.  This book is based on empirical data collected during a  one-year ethnographic field study conducted at NASA's Jet  Propulsion Laboratory by the author, who was a mission  member, and included working on Earth according to Mars  time. An interdisciplinary disciplinary lens (anthropology,  communication, history, organization studies, and science  and technology studies) is used to examine organizing and  conducting robotic science exploration on Mars. The book  includes chapters on the historical context of the MER  workplace (NASA and JPL); MER team people, robots, and  workspace; the primary technology (time) for organizing  co-located and remote workgroups; context on the  limitations of the time/work relationship; professional  identity and human-robot relationships that shaped working  according to Mars time. The book's intent is to give the  public a closer look, and a broader view, on a project that  was publicly funded and with goals that included producing  knowledge about natural work that would benefit all. It is  also the intent to show, through the cultural production of  Mars time for remote telerobotic science work, how  contemporary and historical human-technology relationships  inform assumptions about clock time as an unalterable,  natural phenomenon. The organizational relationship between  clock time and work, while still operational, is outdated.  Organizational and societal values shape people's choices  (and consequences of those choices) at work that include  formally addressing problematic technology, holding  institutions or individuals responsible for breakdowns,  developing informal workarounds, and taking on additional  work to support the technology that was intended to support  people. These values and choices constitute some of the  cultural norms that are part of the socio-technical  infrastructure supporting space science and exploration.  These relationships warrant examination and experimentation  to uncouple what is natural about time from what can be  changed in order for technology to support rather than  drive human temporality at work"--},
      recid = {1386280},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
}