Tarleton Gillespie

Gillespie received his B.A. in English from Amherst College in 1994, and his M.A. in Communication from the University of California, San Diego in 1997. He obtained his Ph.D. in Communication from the University of California, San Diego in January 2002. He has been working for the Department of Communication at Cornell University since 2010.

Gillespie is currently researching the impact of the Internet and modern media technologies on copyright law and the progression of copyright law in the digital age. He is also interested in topics such as digital rights management and other digital copy protection strategies and their effect on culture. Broader interests include debates on peer-to-peer file-sharing, information technology, animation and children's media. His 2018 book "Custodians of the Internet" discusses the complex relationship social media sites have with hate speech and extremist groups on their sites, as there are no defined "custodian" responsibilities in policing this content, and actions taken are mainly left up to the discretion of private companies.

Gillespie, Tarleton. Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture (MIT Press, 2007).

Reviewed in Cultural Sociology.2008; 2: 425-428

Reviewed in New Media & Society.2008; 10: 669-671

Reviewed in Cultural Sociology.2008; 2: 423-425

Gillespie, Tarleton. "book review: Michael Strangelove, The Empire of Mind: Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement." New Media & Society (forthcoming, 2007)

Gillespie, Tarleton. "book review: Steven Weber, The Success of Open Source." Isis (forthcoming, v97n3, September 2006): 592-593. available online at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/Isis/journal/contents/v97n3.html

Burk, Dan and Gillespie, Tarleton. "Autonomy and Morality in DRM and Anti-circumvention Law." Triple C: Cognition, Communication, Cooperation. (v4n2, November 2006), available online at: https://web.archive.org/web/20070928013241/http://triplec.uti.at/files/tripleC4(2)_Burk-Gillespie.pdf

Gillespie, Tarleton. "Designed to 'Effectively Frustrate': Copyright, Technology, and the Agency of Users" New Media & Society (v8n4, August 2006): 651-669, available online at: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3471

Gillespie, Tarleton. "Engineering a Principle: 'End-to-End' in the Design of the Internet." Social Studies of Science (v36n3, June 2006): 427-457.available online at: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3472

Gillespie, Tarleton. "Everything to Everyone." InsideHigherEd (January 27, 2006), available online at http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2006/01/27/gillespie

Gillespie, Tarleton. "Between What's Right and What's Easy." InsideHigherEd (October 21, 2005), available online at: http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2005/10/21/gillespie

Gillespie, Tarleton. "Copyright and Commerce: The DCMA, Trusted Systems, and the Stabilization of Distribution." The Information Society. (v20n4, September 2004: 239-254, available at: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3473

Gillespie, Tarleton. "The Politics of Platforms." New Media & Society(2010).12(3).347-367

2009: Outstanding Book Award, International Communication Association, for Wired Shut

2009: Book Award, Communication and Information Technology division of the American Sociological Association, for Wired Shut
2008: Residential fellow, Institute for the Social Sciences, Cornell University
2008: Top Three Paper, Communication Law and Policy division, International Communication Association
2007: Young Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, Cornell University
2007: Commencement speaker, Information Science, Cornell University
2000: Dissertation fellowship, Dept. of Communication, Univ. of California, San Diego
1997: Teaching Excellence Award, UCSD Center for Teaching Development
1995: UCSD Predoctoral Humanities Fellowship, Univ. of California, San Diego

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