Faculty at SUNY Geneseo are using wiki technology to foster communities of practice among English majors studying literary interpretation and critical analysis. Through these online discussion fora, students from different course sections have a common space to explore multiple critical approaches and engage fundamental questions about their own roles as critics and students of English. Paul Schacht, Caroline Woidat, Rob Doggett, and Gillian Paku document their successes and challenges with teaching and learning in the digital realm.

This computer-scientist champion of digital libraries and humanities computing provides an overview of paradigm changes in the sciences; a similar review of humanities achievements show that they still stop short of developing a new kind of scholarship.

Scientists were not always good collaborators. In pondering the "unprecedented convergence of interest across C.P. Snow's Two Cultures in the promise of cyberinfrastructure and of data-driven research," the computer scientist/digital librarian Sayeed Choudhury and medieval scholar Timothy Stinson propose a new relationship between humanities scholars, their resources and their colleagues.