Who reads four million e-mails? The NSA – and professors

This op-ed highlights the challenge of doing research in “the infinite archive”.

Pointing to the opportunities for knowledge creation that emerge as a result of skilled use of digital tools is less evocative than calling us to share the results of our research. But we will need to be proficient with those tools if we want to share what we’ve seen in the vast information ocean in which we are all now swimming.