Tarleton Gillespie

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Tarleton Gillespie

Born January 25, 1973 (1973-01-25) (age 35)
Ithaca, New York, U.S.
Occupation Assistant Professor, Cornell University Department of Communication,
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Website
www.tarletongillespie.org/

Tarleton Gillespie is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University and the author of the book Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture.

He is currently teaching at the Communication department of Cornell University, as an assistant professor, with an affiliation with the Information Science program and the Science & Technology Studies department. He also serves as a non-residential fellow with the Stanford Center for Internet and Society at the Stanford Law School.

Recently, Gillespie was awarded the Young Faculty Teaching Excellence Award in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University; he is also the commencement speaker for the Information Science/Information Science, Systems and Technology majors at Cornell University for 2007.

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[edit] Education

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 of 2002.

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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.


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

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: 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

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