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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

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