I owe a great debt, one that I suspect I cannot calculate nor ever repay, to all those who offered their help, support, and insights throughout the writing of this book. A special thanks for the guidance of Chandra Mukerji and Robert Horwitz. Many thanks to Geof Bowker, Dan Burk, John Caldwell, Julie Cohen, Shay David, Josh Greenberg, Jeff Hancock, Peter Hirtle, Steve Jackson, Joe Karaganis, Leah Lievrouw, Michael Lynch, Lev Manovich, Helen Nissenbaum, Trevor Pinch, Matt Ratto, Lucy Suchman, and Fred Turner for taking the time to read and improve the manuscript. A special thanks to Kirsten Foot, Pamela Samuelson, and Siva Vaidhyanathan for the kind quotes they offered for the book's cover. Thanks to Doug Sery, Valerie Geary, Kathy Caruso, Amanda Nash, and Emily Gutheinz at The MIT Press, as well as the anonymous reviewers for their thorough and helpful critiques. A special thanks to Nat Sims for designing the cover of the book and to Alexa Weinstein for her meticulous proofreading. Thanks to all my colleagues in Communication at UCSD, and in Communication, Science & Technology Studies, and Information Science at Cornell, for providing the rich intellectual environments from which this work sprang. Thanks to the people at Claire de Lune Coffee Lounge in San Diego and at Wownet Cafe and Juna's Cafe in Ithaca for their caffeine and hospitality. And for their endless support, patience, and encouragement, my eternal gratitude to my parents, my family -- and most of all to Jenna and Jonas.
Portions of this book were assisted by a grant from the Digital Cultural Institutions Project of the Social Science Research Council, with funds provided by the Rockefeller Foundation. Thanks also to the participants of the "Digital Cultural Institutions and the Future of Access: Social, Legal, and Technical Challenges" workshop at the Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Santa Clara University, October 21-23, 2004, for their advice. Thanks also to the Center for Internet and Society at the Stanford Law School for the support and community provided by its 2005-2007 fellowship award.
Pieces of this research, at various stages of completion, were presented at conferences hosted by the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) and the Society for the Social Study of Science (4S), and as colloquia for the department of Science & Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the department of Information Science at Northeastern University, the Information Society Project at Yale School of Law, and the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. Many thanks to the participants and audiences in all of those places for their attention, questions, and suggestions.
A version of chapter 6 appeared as "Copyright and Commerce: The DMCA, Trusted Systems, and the Stabilization of Distribution," The Information Society 20.4 (Sept. 2004): 239-254. Reproduced by permission of Taylor & Francis Group, LLC., http://www.taylorandfrancis.com.
A version of chapter 8 appeared as "Designed to 'Effectively Frustrate': Copyright, Technology, and the Agency of Users," New Media and Society 8.4 (Aug. 2006): 651-669. It appears here with the permission of New Media and Society and Sage Publications.
A portion of chapter 9 appeared as "Autonomy and Morality in DRM and Anti-Circumvention Law," Triple C: Cognition, Communication, Cooperation (2006), co-authored with Dan Burk. It appears here with the permission of Triple C, and with gratitude to Dan Burk.
A portion of chapter 9 will also appear as "Price Discrimination, Regional Coding, and the Shape of the Digital Commodity," in Joe Karaganis and Natalie Jeremijenko, eds., Structures of Participation in Digital Culture (forthcoming, 2007).
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from Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture, Tarleton Gillespie, MIT Press, June 2007.