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table of contents
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. List of figures
  5. Notes on contributors
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction: reframing failure
  8. Part I: Innovation
    1. 1. Stop lying to yourself: collective delusion and digital humanities grant funding
    2. 2. Risk, failure and the assessment of innovative research
    3. 3. Innovation, tools and ecology
    4. 4. Software at play
  9. Part II: Technology
    1. 5. Brokenness is social
    2. 6. A career in ruins? Accepting imperfection and celebrating failures in digital preservation and digital archaeology
    3. 7. Living well with brokenness in an inclusive research culture: what we can learn from failures and processes in a digital humanities lab
    4. 8. Can we be failing?
  10. Part III: Collaboration
    1. 9. Doing, failing, learning: understanding what didn’t work as a key research finding in action research
    2. 10. Navigating the challenges and opportunities of collaboration
    3. 11. Challenging the pipeline structure: a reflection on the organisational flow of interdisciplinary projects
    4. 12. When optimisation fails us
    5. 13. Reframing ‘reframing’: a holistic approach to understanding failure
  11. Part IV: Institutions
    1. 14. Permission to experiment with literature as data and fail in the process
    2. 15. What to do with failure? (What does failure do?)
    3. 16. The remaining alternatives
    4. 17. Who fails and why? Understanding the systemic causes of failure within and beyond the digital humanities
    5. 18. Experimental publishing: acknowledging, addressing and embracing failure
    6. 19. Writing about research methods: sharing failure to support success
    7. 20. Bridging the distance: confronting geographical failures in digital humanities conferences
  12. Conclusion: on failing
  13. Index

Contents

  1. List of figures
  2. Notes on contributors
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction: reframing failure
  5. Anna-Maria Sichani and Michael Donnay
  6. Failure in digital scholarship
  7. Failure and innovation
  8. Failure and technological obsolescence
  9. Failure and collaboration
  10. Failure and institutions
  11. Reframing failure
  12. References
  13. Part I Innovation
  14. Failure and innovation
  15. References
  16. 1.Stop lying to yourself: collective delusion and digital humanities grant funding
  17. Quinn Dombrowski
  18. Failure in self-funded projects
  19. What happens when you get funding?
  20. Reframing funding
  21. Conclusion
  22. Note from the author
  23. Notes
  24. References
  25. 2.Risk, failure and the assessment of innovative research
  26. Jane Winters
  27. References
  28. 3.Innovation, tools and ecology
  29. Christopher Ohge
  30. Notes
  31. References
  32. 4.Software at play
  33. David De Roure
  34. The digital and computational
  35. Programming
  36. Software and skills
  37. The new primitives
  38. Software, innovation and failure
  39. Permission to be creative: permission to fail
  40. Notes
  41. References
  42. Part II Technology
  43. Failure and technological obsolescence
  44. References
  45. 5.Brokenness is social
  46. Frances Corry
  47. References
  48. 6.A career in ruins? Accepting imperfection and celebrating failures in digital preservation and digital archaeology
  49. Jenny Mitcham
  50. A career in (the) ruins
  51. Good, better, best …
  52. Accepting imperfection
  53. Admitting failure
  54. Success from failure
  55. Last words
  56. Notes
  57. References
  58. 7.Living well with brokenness in an inclusive research culture: what we can learn from failures and processes in a digital humanities lab
  59. Arianna Ciula
  60. Technical failures, living well and learning with brokenness
  61. The role of experts in a broken research culture
  62. Notes
  63. References
  64. 8.Can we be failing?
  65. Joris J. van Zundert
  66. References
  67. Part III Collaboration
  68. Failure and collaboration
  69. References
  70. 9.Doing, failing, learning: understanding what didn’t work as a key research finding in action research
  71. Arran J. Rees
  72. Failure as research development in action
  73. Writing about action research as a mode for talking about failure
  74. Acknowledgements
  75. Notes
  76. References
  77. 10.Navigating the challenges and opportunities of collaboration
  78. Jennifer Stertzer
  79. Notes
  80. References
  81. 11.Challenging the pipeline structure: a reflection on the organisational flow of interdisciplinary projects
  82. Caio Mello
  83. Being truly collaborative, and truly interdisciplinary
  84. A critique of ‘pipelines’ as a representation of research planning
  85. Conclusion: distorting the pipes
  86. References
  87. 12.When optimisation fails us
  88. Jentery Sayers
  89. References
  90. 13.Reframing ‘reframing’: a holistic approach to understanding failure
  91. Lauren Tuckley
  92. Introduction
  93. Failure frameworks
  94. Beyond winning: a values-oriented approach to competition
  95. All for one: reorienting traditional notions of competition
  96. Reframing failure: a few takeaways
  97. Note
  98. References
  99. Part IV Institutions
  100. Failure and institutions
  101. References
  102. 14.Permission to experiment with literature as data and fail in the process
  103. Jennifer Isasi
  104. Set for failure: plot twist
  105. Comfortable with experimenting
  106. Teaching from lessons learned
  107. In closing: embrace the possibility of failure
  108. Notes
  109. References
  110. 15.What to do with failure? (What does failure do?)
  111. Brittany Amell
  112. What, exactly, are we asking each other and ourselves to normalise?
  113. What, exactly, are we asking each other and ourselves to be okay with?
  114. Beyond failure-as-usual, or what to do with failure
  115. References
  116. 16.The remaining alternatives
  117. Elena Spadini
  118. Notes
  119. References
  120. 17.Who fails and why? Understanding the systemic causes of failure within and beyond the digital humanities
  121. Naomi Wells
  122. References
  123. 18.Experimental publishing: acknowledging, addressing and embracing failure
  124. Janneke Adema
  125. Acknowledging failure
  126. Addressing systemic failure
  127. Embracing failure
  128. Notes
  129. References
  130. 19.Writing about research methods: sharing failure to support success
  131. Anisa Hawes and Riva Quiroga
  132. Notes
  133. References
  134. 20.Bridging the distance: confronting geographical failures in digital humanities conferences
  135. Nabeel Siddiqui
  136. Note
  137. References
  138. Conclusion: on failing
  139. Anna-Maria Sichani and Michael Donnay
  140. References
  141. Index

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