Building the Trident Network: A Study of the Enrollment of People, Knowledge, and Machines
425 pages | Dec 12, 2006 |ISBN:0262133970 | PDF | 15 Mb
Product Description:
In Building the Trident Network, Maggie Mort approaches the United Kingdom’s Trident submarine and missile system as a sociotechnical network. Drawing on the sociology of scientific and technical knowledge and on actor-network theory, Mort recounts how the Trident program was stabilized in the United Kingdom and brought into "successful" production. She uncovers the nature of this success by retelling unofficial histories of Trident, of production roads not taken, and of potential technological "distractions."
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