IRE Project Assistant and UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies PhD student Anthony Hoffmann has posted a four part analysis of the recent Twitter-Library of Congress deal at his blog Sex, Drugs, and Intellectual Freedom.

In parts one through three, he addresses issues as far ranging as privacy/user rights, digital divides and the the cultural record, as well as intercultural information ethics and digital classification.

In part four, he turns his attention to Internet research ethics, and (building on the previous three posts), poses a handful of questions for researchers in light of the deal:

• How do we conduct meaningful research in the archive and still respect the rights and privacy of individual Twitterers who did not necessarily consent to being researched?
• How do we make sense of this data in a way that is meaningful anywhere outside the context of Twitter itself?
• How will we handle the issue of intercultural information ethics and representation when we conduct research on this archive?

Check out the entire series for more detail.

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