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The Significance of the Frontier in Digital Scholarship
Trevor Muñoz
Digital Frontiers 2013
University of Maryland
@trevormunoz
The Frontier ThesisFrederick Jackson Turner, 1893
Dismantled as an historical
explanation for the development of a distinctly American civilization
The most significant thing about the American frontier is, that it lies at the hither edge of free land.
“
”
— Turner
process,Turner’s frontier was a not a place“
”— Patricia Nelson Limerick
always already inhabited
The frontier-as-place is
where we live
Digital scholarship is not somewhere we’re going.
Digital scholarship is
How to see frontier life
How to see frontier lifeas a design opportunity
Digital Humanities Incubator
