
Published online:
19 May 2022
Published in print:
30 September 2021
Online ISBN:
9780226796543
Print ISBN:
9780226796406
Contents
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The TRACON: Boston Terminal Radar Approach Control The TRACON: Boston Terminal Radar Approach Control
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Airspace, Place, and Work Practice Airspace, Place, and Work Practice
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Place, Technology, and Ethnocognition Place, Technology, and Ethnocognition
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Signals and Interpretive Work Signals and Interpretive Work
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Changing Space, Changing Place, Changing Culture Changing Space, Changing Place, Changing Culture
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Boston Tower Boston Tower
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Airspace, Place, and Work Practice Airspace, Place, and Work Practice
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Place, Technology, and Ethnocognition Place, Technology, and Ethnocognition
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Signals and Interpretive Work Signals and Interpretive Work
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The Production Line: Filling Holes and Shooting Gaps The Production Line: Filling Holes and Shooting Gaps
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In the Fire In the Fire
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The Terminal: Boston TRACON and Tower The Terminal: Boston TRACON and Tower
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Boundary Work: The Routine Drama of a Runway Change Boundary Work: The Routine Drama of a Runway Change
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Chapter
6 The Terminal: Boston TRACON and Boston Tower
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Pages
250–306
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Published:September 2021
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OXFORD ACADEMIC STYLE
Vaughan, Diane, 'The Terminal: Boston TRACON and Boston Tower', Dead Reckoning: Air Traffic Control, System Effects, and Risk (Chicago, IL , 2021; online edn, Chicago Scholarship Online, 19 May 2022), https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226796543.003.0008, accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
CHICAGO STYLE
Vaughan, Diane. "The Terminal: Boston TRACON and Boston Tower." In Dead Reckoning: Air Traffic Control, System Effects, and Risk University of Chicago Press, 2021. Chicago Scholarship Online, 2022. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226796543.003.0008.
Abstract
Chapter 6 compares Boston Tower with Boston TRACON. These ethnographies reveal a standardized system that is riddled with variation. The system effect here is the relation between airspace and place. As a facility’s assigned airspace and air traffic vary in volume and complexity, so does the place and its architecture, technologies, rhythm of work, and consequently, culture. Within this so-called standardized system, controllers must adjust dead reckoning to ways of doing and being that vary by place.
Subject
Technology and Society
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