Zara Mirmalek Department of Communication, Science Studies Program University of California of San Diego
						PhD in progress, Communication and Science Studies
					Solar discrepancies: Mars exploration and the curious problem of interplanetary time Based on one year as a participant-observer on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers mission, I examine the social and technical work processes involved in making martian science.
			My work is located at the intersection of social theory, organization studies, communication, and science & technology studies, I am investigate the epistemology of human and technology collaboration, the socio-technical constitution of time in organizations, and the role of ideology in the formation organizational identities.
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									zaram_at_ucsd.edu