A collaboration between a university English professor and a high-school English teacher was successful in building community, yet rather unsuccessful in manipulating the Internet. Their collaboration worked, as far as it did, because of an absence of hierarchy. To create a basis for comparison with other studies, analysis of the collaboration can…

Describes a "Letters Across Cultures" project that paired high school seniors with new college students in an e-mail exchange. Notes that, although students were to explore cultural differences between high school and college life, what arose was a series of cross cultural and other "misconducts" illustrating ways students relied upon stereotypes…