Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Reframing failure
Anna-Maria Sichani and Michael Donnay
Part I Innovation
Failure and innovation
Anna-Maria Sichani and Michael Donnay
1. Stop lying to yourself: Collective delusion and Digital Humanities grant funding
Quinn Dombrowski
2. Risk, failure and the assessment of innovative research
Jane Winters
3. Innovation, tools, and ecology
Christopher Ohge
4. Software at play
David De Roure
Part II Technology
Failure and technological obsolescence
Anna-Maria Sichani and Michael Donnay
5. Brokenness is social
Frances Corry
6. A career in ruins? Accepting imperfection and celebrating failures in digital preservation and digital archaeology
Jenny Mitcham
7. Living well with brokenness in an inclusive research culture: what we can learn from failures and processes in a Digital Humanities lab
Arianna Ciula
8. Can we be failing?
Joris J. van Zundert
Part III Collaboration
Failure and collaboration
Anna-Maria Sichani and Michael Donnay
9. Doing, failing, learning: understanding what didn’t work as a key research finding in action research
Arran Rees
10. Navigating the challenges and opportunities of collaboration
Jennifer Stertzerc
11. Challenging the pipeline structure: a reflection on the organisational flow of interdisciplinary projects
Caio Mello
12. When optimisation fails us
Jentery Sayers
13. Reframing ‘reframing’: A holistic approach to understanding failure
Lauren Tuckley
Part IV Institutions
Failure and institutions
Anna-Maria Sichani and Michael Donnay
14. Permission to experiment with literature as data and fail in the process
Jennifer Isasi
15. What to do with failure? (What does failure do?)
Brittany Amell
16. The remaining alternatives
Elena Spadini
17. Who fails and why? Understanding the systemic causes of failure within and beyond the Digital Humanities
Naomi Wells
18. Experimental publishing: Acknowledging, addressing, and embracing failure
Janneke Adema
19. Writing about research methods: sharing failure to support success
Anisa Hawes and Riva Quiroga
20. Bridging the distance: Confronting geographical failures in Digital Humanities Conferences
Nabeel Siddiqui
Conclusion: On failing
Anna-Maria Sichani and Michael Donnay