Faculty & Staff
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Tarleton Gillespie, Ph.D. Assistant Professor 315 Kennedy 607.255.8403 tlg28@cornell.edu http://www.tarletongillespie.org/ http://www.wiredshut.org/ |
Dr. Tarleton Gillespie's interests include information policy, new media and society, and the social implications of computing technologies. His current research investigates the transformation of copyright law for the digital age, particularly the development of technical copy protection strategies and their implications for authorship, technology, and cultural expression. He is affiliated with the Information Science program and the Department of Science and Technology Studies.
Recent courses taught include:
Comm 320 - New Media and Society
Comm 349 - Media Technologies
Comm 429 - Copyright in the Digital Age
Selected Publications
Gillespie, Tarleton. Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture (MIT Press, June 2007).
Gillespie, Tarleton. “book review: Michael Strangelove, The Empire of Mind: Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement.” New Media & Society (v9n3, June 2007): 550-552. available online at: http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/9/3/550.
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. "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
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

