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Cathy Davidson
Director, Futures Initiative at the Graduate Center,
City University of New York
Information technologies provide us with tools to work together at greater distances and with more partners than ever before. But have we changed the intellectual communities in which we work? This talk illustrates the growth of cyber communities using HASTAC (haystack: Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory), an informal, voluntary consortium.