Tarleton Gillespie

Author of Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture

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Tarleton Gillespie is a principal researcher at Microsoft Research New England and an affiliated associate professor at Cornell University. He cofounded the blog Culture Digitally.

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Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture (2007) 79 copies, 1 review

Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media (2018) 73 copies, 1 review

Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society (2014) 23 copies

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Birthdate: 1973-01-25
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Ithaca, New York, USA
Associated Place (for map): New York, USA

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mateoj 78 reviews

Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media by Tarleton Gillespie

Very interesting, if dated. Still, I felt like much of the book's arguments are relevant even to this new generation of social media and social media users.

Jan 30, 2026

ipublishcentral 529 reviews

Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture by Tarleton Gillespie