How traditional learning institutions can become as innovative, flexible, robust, and collaborative as the best social networking sites.

Cathy N. Davidson is John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Ruth F. Devarney Professor of English at Duke University. David Theo Goldberg is Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute, the University of California's system-wide research facility for the human sciences and theoretical research in the arts. He also holds faculty appointments as Professor of Comparative Literature and of Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine, where he is a Fellow of the UCI Critical Theory Institute.