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STS Circle at Harvard
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Zara Mirmalek
Harvard, STS Fellow
on
Democracy and the Deep-Sea: Telepresence and Public Participation in Remote
Environments
Monday, December 1
12:15-2:00 pm
Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street
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Abstract: Exploration of the deep-sea requires penetrating barriers such as
darkness, temperature, and water pressure. Historically, technologies for
direct human access have been limited to only a few human bodies. More
recently, beginning in the 20th century, institutional and individual efforts
have produced and operated a network of information communication technologies,
people, and robots that make hard-to-reach environments directly accessible to
a significantly greater number of humans-this is telepresence. What does it
mean to produce a sociotechnical means for public participation in environments
that have previously excluded most observers? This talk draws from my current
ethnographic study of human-technology relationships in the environment of
deep-sea science and exploration. Telepresence interrupts the traditional
requirement that scientists must be physically present on a ship to participate
in real-time science and exploration. It allows scientists on land to work with
scientists and robots thousands of miles away and hundreds of feet under the
sea. And, it allows any member of the public real-time video, audio, and
communication access to these scientists.
Biography: Zara Mirmalek's research focuses on human-technology
relationships, access to remote environments, and intercultural communication.
Her recent sites of study are contemporary high-tech organizations wherein
workgroups include robots to mediate direct human experience. Zara received her
doctorate in Communication and Science Studies from the Department of
Communication and the Science Studies Program at the University of California
San Diego. Currently, Zara is a postdoctoral fellow in the Program for Science,
Technology and Society at Harvard University.
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