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The organization that Andrew L. Russell, Ph.D., the dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, and Lee Vinsel, Ph.D., assistant professor of science, technology, and society at Virginia Tech, launched several years ago is called the Maintainers. It’s described on its website as “a global research network interested in the concepts of maintenance, infrastructure, repair, and the myriad forms of labor and expertise that sustain our human-built world.” Members of the Maintainers include engineers and business leaders, academic historians and social scientists, government agencies and NGOs, nonprofits, artists, activists, coders, and more.

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