The Significance of the Frontier in Digital Scholarship Trevor Muñoz Digital Frontiers 2013 University of Maryland.

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The Significance of the Frontier in Digital Scholarship Trevor Muñoz Digital Frontiers 2013 University of Maryland

@trevormunoz

The Frontier Thesis Frederick 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

as a design opportunity

Digital Humanities Incubator

Thank You. Trevor Muñoz

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