Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, Department of Communication (2002)

dissertation: "Sleight of Hand: Law, Technology, and the Moral Deployment of Authorship in the Napster and DeCSS Copyright Cases"
Ph.D. advisor: Prof. Chandra Mukerji

M.A., University of California, San Diego, Department of Communication (1997)

B.A., Amherst College, Department of English (1994)

Gillespie, Tarleton. Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture. (MIT Press, June 2007). [Read the introduction.] [Read the new preface for the 2009 paperback addition.]

Gillespie, Tarleton. "The Politics of 'Platforms.'" New Media & Society (forthcoming, 2010)

Gillespie, Tarleton. "Characterizing Copyright in the Classroom: The Cultural Work of Anti-Piracy Campaigns." Communication, Culture, & Critique 2, no. 3 (forthcoming, 2009).

Burk, Dan and Gillespie, Tarleton. "Autonomy and Morality in DRM and Anti-circumvention Law." Triple C: Cognition, Communication, Cooperation. (v4n2, November 2006)

Gillespie, Tarleton. "Designed to 'Effectively Frustrate': Copyright, Technology, and the Agency of Users." New Media & Society (v8n4, August 2006): 651-669.

Gillespie, Tarleton. "Engineering a Principle: 'End-to-End' in the Design of the Internet." Social Studies of Science (v36n3, June 2006): 427-457.
      abstracted in Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ProQuest CSA)

Gillespie, Tarleton. "Copyright and Commerce: The DMCA, Trusted Systems, and the Stabilization of Distribution." The Information Society. (v20n4, Sept. 2004): 239-54.

Gillespie, Tarleton. "Narrative Control and Visual Polysemy: FOX Surveillance Specials and the Limits of Legitimation." The Velvet Light Trap (n45, Spring 2000, pp. 36-49).

Gillespie, Tarleton. "Price Discrimination, Regional Coding, and the Shape of the Digital Commodity." In Joe Karaganis and Natalie Jeremijenko, eds. Structures of Participation in Digital Culture (SSRC / Columbia University Press, 2008).

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.

Gillespie, Tarleton. "book review: Steven Weber, The Success of Open Source." Isis (v97n3, September 2006): 592-593.

Gillespie, Tarleton. "Everything to Everyone." InsideHigherEd (January 27, 2006)

Gillespie, Tarleton. "Between What's Right and What's Easy." InsideHigherEd (October 21, 2005)

Gillespie, Tarleton. "The Stories Digital Tools Tell." In John Caldwell and Anna Everett, eds. New Media: Theses on Convergence, Media, and Digital Reproduction (Routledge, 2003).

Mukerji, Chandra, and Gillespie, Tarleton. "Recognizable Ambiguity: Cartoon Imagery and American Childhood in Animaniacs." In Dan Cook, ed. Symbolic Childhood (Peter Lang Pub., 2002).

Gillespie, Tarleton. "Toys R Us' Fragile Cartoon World...", Animation World Magazine, (v4.7, October 1999).

Top Three Paper, Communication Law and Policy division, International Communication Association (ICA), 2008

Residential fellow, Institute for the Social Sciences, Cornell University, Fall 2008

Commencement speaker, Information Science / Information Science, Systems, and Technology, Cornell University, 2007

Young Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, Cornell University, 2007

CUAES Hatch Project, "Anti-Piracy Campaigns and their Political Implications for School-Aged Youth, Information Literacy, and the Changing Dynamics of Knowledge Production," 2006-2008

Seed grant, Institute for the Social Sciences, Cornell University, 2006-2007

Non-Residential Fellowship, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford School of Law, 2005-2007.

Summer research award, Digital Cultural Institutions Project, Social Science Research Council, 2004.

Humanities Council Research Grant, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 2003.

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Dissertation Fellowship, Department of Communication, University of California at San Diego, 2000.

Teaching Excellence Award, UCSD Center for Teaching Development, 1997.

UCSD Predoctoral Humanities Fellowship, University of California at San Diego, 1995-2000.

Associate Editor, The Information Society
Editorial Advisor, Social Studies of Science

Reviewer, Cultural Anthropology
Reviewer, Mass Communication and Society
Reviewer, New Media and Society
Reviewer, Public Understanding of Science
Reviewer, Theory and Society

= upcoming =

= past =

invitation-only workshop: "New Media and Communication in the 21st Century," organized by Stylianos Papathanassopoulos, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Hellenic Audiovisual Institute; October 2008.

"Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture"
      Cybertower distance learning module, Cornell University - to be published 2008.

"Characterizing Copyright in the Classroom: The Cultural Work of Anti-Piracy Campaigns"
      Presented to the International Communication Association (ICA), Montreal, Canada, May 2008.
      * awarded "Top Three Paper" in the Communication, Law, and Policy division
            AND
      Presented at "Intellectual Property and STS,"invitation-only workshop organized by Pamela Samuelson and Mark Lemley, UC Berkeley School of Information and the Stanford Program in Law, Science, and Technology, May 2008.

panel organizer and discussant: "Wikis for Politics" International Communication Association (ICA), Montreal, Canada, May 2008.

invitation-only workshop: "Remapping Public Media," organized by Pat Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi, the Center for Social Media, American University; ICA, May 2008.

invitation-only workshop: "Intellectual Property and STS,"organized by Pamela Samuelson and Mark Lemley, UC Berkeley School of Information and the Stanford Program in Law, Science, and Technology, May 2008.

"Copyright Goes to Kindergarten: The Cultural Work of Anti-Piracy Campaigns"
      Invited colloquium: University Computer Policy and Law program, Cornell University, February 2008. [VIDEO]

"'Designed to Effectively Frustrate': Copyright, Technology, and the Agency of Users"
      Invited colloquium, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, October 2007.

"Learning to Consume Culture: Copyright, Technology, and Participation in Industry-sponsored Anti-piracy Campaigns"
      Invited colloquium, Department of Art History & Communication Studies, McGill University, January 2008.
           AND
      Invited colloquium, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Harvard Law School, November 2007
           AND
      Presented at the Conference of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Montreal, Canada, October 2007.
           AND
      Presented at Internet Research 8.0, Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Vancouver, Canada, October 2007

panel organizer: "Examining the Structures of Participation in New Media and Information Technologies"
      For the Conference of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Montreal, Canada, October 2007.

workshop co-organizer: "Playful Technocultures"
      Invitation only, day-long workshop, co-organized (with Bart Simon, Josh Greenberg, Phoebe Sengers, and Elena Razlagova) to precede the Conference of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Montreal, Canada, October 2007.

"Using Copyrighted Works: Digital Rights Management in Higher Education"
      Invited audio conference, Progressive Business Audio Conferences, September 2007.

"Learning to Consume Culture: Presumptions about Media, Technology, and Participation in Industry-sponsored Anti-piracy Campaigns"
      Presented at the Media in Transition 5, Cambridge, MA, April 2007.

"Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture"
      invited colloquium, Department of Communication and Information School, University of Washington, November 2006 [AUDIO]
           AND
      invited colloquium, Department of Information Systems and Department of Telecommunications, Penn State University, April 2007
           AND
      invited colloquium, Mann Library, Cornell University, April 2007 [VIDEO] or [AUDIO]

"The Structures of Authorship in Technology, Law, and Digital Culture"
      presented at the Conference of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Vancouver, Canada, November 2006.

panel organizer: "Technologies of the Remix"
      co-organized (with Trevor Pinch) for the Conference of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Vancouver, Canada, November 2006.

panel organizer and discussant, "Technological Regulation and Subversion: Opposing Structures and Visions of 'Use' in the Intellectual Property Debates."
      co-organized (with Kristen Eschenfelder) for the Conference of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Vancouver, Canada, November 2006.

moderator, "Cornell's Legal Music Program: Download Debate III," University Computer Policy and Law program, Cornell University, April 20, 2006. [VIDEO]

"'Designed to Effectively Frustrate': Copyright, Technology, and the Agency of Users"
      invited colloquium, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensaeleer Polytechnic Institute, January 2006
           AND
      invited colloquium, School of Information, Northeastern University, February 2006
           AND
      invited colloquium, Information Society Project, School of Law, Yale University, March 2006
           AND
      invited colloquium, Center for Internet and Society, School of Law, Stanford University, April 2006

"To 'Effectively Frustrate': The Implications of Technical Copy Protection for Engineering"
      invited talk, Bovay Seminar Series: Social and Ethical Issues in Engineering, Engineering Department, Cornell University, October 2005.

"Breaking Bridges: A Return to Langdon Winner's 'Do Politics Have Artifacts?'"
      presented at the Conference of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Pasadena, CA., October 2005.

"A Heroic Tale of Devilish Piracy and Glorious Progress, by Jack Valenti"
      presented to the Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Chicago, IL., October 2005.

panel organizer: "The New Standard in Copyright"
      organized for the Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Chicago, IL., October 2005.

"Why You're in the Trenches of the Copyright Wars"
      invited talk, Undergraduate Society for Intellectual Property, Cornell University, April 2004

"Designing Against User Agency: A Consideration of the FCC 'Broadcast Flag'"
      presented to the Digital Cultural Institutions Project, Social Science Research Council, Santa Clara, CA, October 2004
           AND
      presented at the Conference of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Paris, France, August 2004.

"Manufacturing a Principle: 'End-to-End' in the Design of the Internet"
      presented to the Science & Technology Studies Department, Cornell University, January, 2004

"The Symbolic Shape of Media Technologies"
      presented at the Conference of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Atlanta, GA. October 2003

panel: "The Making of Language and Metaphor in Technoscientific Discourse"
      organized for the Conference of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Atlanta, GA. October 2003

panel and comment: "Building Digital Stuff"
      co-organized (with Phoebe Sengers) for "Connecting STS: The Academy, The polity, and the World," Cornell University, September 2003.

"The Uncanny Absence of Labor in the Science Center at OMSI's Turbine Hall"
      presented at the annual conference of the American Association of Museums, Portland, OR. May 2003.

"Technology, Law, and Metaphor: The Implications of What We Do"
      presented to the Cornell Student Interest Group for Computer Human Interface (SIGCHI), March 2003.

"Invoking the Character of a Technology to Make It So"
      presented at the Conference of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Milwaukee, WI. November 2002.
           AND
      the Science & Technology Studies Department, Cornell University, April 2003.

"Re-Arranging Law, Technology, and Cultural Expression: the implications of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and DVD piracy online"
      presented to the Communication Department, Cornell University. September 2002
           AND
      the Faculty of Information Science, Cornell University. October 2002.

"Criminalizing the Hyperlink: The Implications of the DeCSS Case for Free Speech Online."
      presented at Internet Research 2.0, Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Minneapolis, MN. October 2001.
           AND
      the Conference of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Boston, MA. November 2001.

"Authorship Amidst the Detritus."
      presented at Internet Research 1.0, Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Lawrence, KS. September 2000.

"Cognition, Metaphor, and Authorship in the Interface."
      presented at the Conference on Technology and Identity, sponsored by the Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. April 1999.

"Toy Story and Consumer Culture."
      presented at the Society for Animation Studies (SAS), Chapman University, Anaheim, CA. August 1998.

"Recognizable Ambiguity: Cartoon Imagery and American Childhood in Animaniacs." (co-authored with Chandra Mukerji)
      presented at the Society for Animation Studies (SAS), Utrecht, Netherlands. October 1997.

Association of Internet Researchers (AIR)
International Communication Association (ICA)
Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S)
American Sociological Association (ASA)
           (communication and information technologies)
           (science, knowledge, and technology)

Assistant Professor, Communication, Cornell University, 2004-present.

Cases in Communication (fall 2009)
New Media and Society (spring 2008, spring 2010)
           -- core requirement in Information Science
Copyright in the Digital Age (fall 2007, fall 2009)
ind study: Theories of Technology and Society (spring 2007)
Mass Media and Society (spring 2005, spring 2006, spring 2007)
Copyright in the Digital Age (fall 2005)
Media Technologies (spring 2005, spring 2007)
The Internet as a Social Phenomenon: Issues and Methods [grad] (fall 2004)

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University, 2002-2004.

Media Technologies (fall 2002, spring 2004)
Computers: From Babbage to Gates (spring 2004)
Science and Technology in the Public Arena (fall 2003)
Inside Technology [grad] (fall 2003)
Technologies of Communication [grad] (spring 2003)
What is Science? An Introduction to the Social Studies of Science and Technology (spring 2003)
           -- co-taught with Steven Hilgartner
Introduction to Science & Technology Studies [grad] (fall 2002)
           -- co-taught with Trevor Pinch

Visiting Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California at San Diego, 2002.

Authorship and Copyright in the Digital Age (spring 2002)
Law, Communication and Freedom of Expression, part B (spring 2002)
Law, Communication and Freedom of Expression, part A (winter 2002)
Children and the Media (winter 2002)

Fellow in Communication, Department of Communication, University of California at San Diego, 1999-2001.

Authorship and Copyright in the Digital Age (summer 2001)
Children and the Media (summer 1999, winter 2000, summer 2000)
Cartoons and the Culture of Childhood (summer 1999)

Writing Courses Revision Committee (2007)
Hiring Committee (2006-2007)
Curriculum Committee (2005-current)
Curriculum Revision Committee (2005)

University Faculty Senate, non-tenured faculty at-large (2007-2010)
University Faculty Library Board, committee on digital information and fair use (chair, 2006)
Cornell Legal Entertainment Committee (2006)

Free Culture -- faculty advisor
Undergraduate Society for Intellectual Property -- faculty advisor