Originally published in Section Culture: Newsletter of the ASA Culture Section. Fall 2019. Vol. 31 Issue 2. Sarah Pink Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University. There has been a growing focus on questions of repair and maintenance across disciplines and interdisciplinary fields, including human geography, anthropology, sociology and science and technology studies (STS). Underpinning this is an acknowledgement of the incompleteness of ongoingly emergent states of things … Continue reading Broken Data

Jessica Meyerson, Senior Research Officer, Educopia Institute Andrew Russell, Dean, College of Arts & Sciences SUNY Polytechnic Institute Lee Vinsel, Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Virginia Tech The Maintainers is a global research network interested in maintenance, repair, infrastructure, and the myriad forms of labor and expertise that sustain our human-built world. Since we founded the network five years ago, two topics have … Continue reading The Social Aesthetics of Maintenance