Gillespie, Tarleton L.

Assistant Professor

Tarleton Gillespie is currently an assistant professor in the Communication Department here at Cornell, with graduate field appointments in Information Science and Science & Technology Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Communication from the University of California at San Diego in 2002, his M.A. from the same in 1997. His first book, Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture, was published in June of 2007 by MIT Press.

research

research and scholarship focus

Prof. Gillespie`s research focuses on the underlying tensions between law, technology, commerce, and digital culture. He examines how we negotiate and reify the contours of public discourse in a changin technological environment.

research areas

communication | collaborative research area (CALS)
information science | collaborative research area (CALS)
intellectual property | collaborative research area (CALS)
science and technology studies | collaborative research area (CALS)

submitted impact statement

Wired Shut: Copyright and the shape of digital culture | 2007 Impact statement
Grounding the Digital Copyright Controversies: Investigating the Intersections of Technology, Law, Politics, and Cultural Practice | 2007 Impact statement
Anti-piracy campaigns and their political implications for school-aged youth, information literacy, and the changing dynamics of knowledge production | 2007 Impact statement
Wired Shut: Copyright and the shape of digital culture | 2006 Impact statement
Anti-piracy campaigns and their political implications for school-aged youth, information literacy, and the changing dynamics of knowledge production| | 2006 Impact statement
Technology rules: copyright and the re-alignment of digital culture | 2005 Impact statement

affiliations

faculty appointment in

Communication (COMM) | Cornell department

member of graduate field

Communication | graduate field
Information Science | graduate field
Science and Technology Studies | graduate field

other Cornell affiliations

Institute for the Social Sciences (ISS) | research institute

teaching

teaching focus

Prof. Gillespie`s courses examine the intersection between media, new technologies, and society, from an historical and sociological perspective. They aim to spur students to be critical thinkers about the mediascape that surrounds them and the technologies they interact with everyday, urging them to be media-savvy citizens in an information-saturated environment.

teaches

COMM 1101 - Cases in Communication (MWF 09:05:AM-09:55:AM) | fall 2009 class
COMM 4290 - Copyright in the Digital Age (MW 02:55:PM-04:10:PM) | fall 2009 class
COMM 4970 - Individual Study in Communication (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
COMM 4980 - Communication Teaching Experience (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
COMM 4990 - Independent Research (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
COMM 7970 - Graduate Independent Study (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
COMM 7980 - Communication Teaching Laboratory (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
COMM 7990 - Graduate Research (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
COMM 8900 - Master's-Level Thesis Research (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
COMM 9900 - Doctoral-Level Dissertation Research (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
INFO 4290 - Copyright in the Digital Age (MW 02:55:PM-04:10:PM) | fall 2009 class
COMM 4970 - Individual Study in Communication (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
COMM 4980 - Communication Teaching Experience (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
COMM 4990 - Independent Research (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
COMM 7970 - Graduate Independent Study (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
COMM 7980 - Communication Teaching Laboratory (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
COMM 7990 - Graduate Research (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
COMM 8900 - Master's-Level Thesis Research (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
COMM 9900 - Doctoral-Level Dissertation Research (TBA -) | spring 2009 class

service

outreach focus

Prof. Gillespie aims for his research to speak beyond his academic discipline, contributing to policy debates about copyright, new technology, and digital culture as well as offering resources for citizens of that culture to understand and intervene in the complex debates going on around them.

event host

The Structuration of Search Engine Bias | Wednesday, April 1, 2009 4:00 PM

background

featured in

Help create WikiCandidate -- the ideal presidential candidate | Cornell Chronicle feature
ISS fellowships free some of Cornell's top social scientists to pursue their research | Cornell Chronicle feature
New book explores social costs of digital rights management | Cornell Chronicle feature

publications

selected publications (listing in progress)

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/doi/full/10.1086/510004

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

Keywords: communication and information technology, copyright, culture, internet, law, media, policy, technology