Hickey-Moody, Anna
(2023)
Digital agency and the authorship of failure.
In:
Failurists When Things go Awry.
Institute of Network Cultures, pp. 60-66.
ISBN 9789083328218
Abstract
In this chapter I intentionally problematize popular ways of valuing research and shift
registers for what we might expect to see when reading ‘research.’ Empirical research
assemblages call researchers to inhabit diverse forms of radically different worlds. These
worlds can profoundly dis-organize and re-distribute us as ethnographers and people.
Often, communication across and within worlds relies on algorithmic forms of mediation
or digital platforms.
I contend that we need more academic work unpacking the politics of feeling like a failure
in ethnographic fieldwork and exploring the complex agencies of research assemblages,
which modulate the subjectivity of empirical researchers. I argue that digital agency is
gendered and is part of the algorithmic worlds in which feminist digital researchers work.
As such, we need to develop our own failure archives of the roles played by digital agency
and digital failure in the production of experiences of failure in research assemblages.
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