Tarleton Gillespie is a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research, an affiliated associate professor in the Department of Communication and Department of Information Science at Cornell University, co-founder of the blog Culture Digitally, author of Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture (MIT, 2007), co-editor of Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society (MIT, 2014), and author of Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions that Shape Social Media (Yale, 2018).
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Social Media + SocietyThe Shifting Terms of Labor and Compensation in the Platform Economy Read on Social Media + SocietyJune 2020 -
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DatabitesMike Ananny and Tarleton Gillespie join Kate Klonick for a conversation about the underlying decisions that impact the public's access to media systems and internet platforms. In Networked Press Freedom: Creati... Read moreSeptember 2018 -
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PointsTarleton Gillespie discusses Logan Paul, YouTube, and what we should expect from social media platforms. Read on PointsJanuary 2018 -
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PointsTarleton Gillespie critiques the opacity of Facebook’s content moderation policies, arguing that their process has become too complex and high-stakes to be left hidden from the public. Read on PointsMay 2017 -
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CultureDigitally.orgTarleton GillespieMary GaryKate MiltnerTed StriphasIlana GershonPaul HillierMike AnannyHector PostigoD&S advisor Tarleton Gillespie, with several scholars, continues sharing essays on the U.S. election and the implications on scholarship. As we said yesterday, we know the scholars in this community cannot address every ... Read on CultureDigitally.orgNovember 2016 -
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CultureDigitally.orgTarleton GillespieHector PostigoJonathan SterneThomas StreeterSeth LewisKate ZyskowskiTom BoellstorffShawn WalkerJosh BraunJesse HoufRobert GehlJessa LingelSarah Banet-WeiserD&S advisor Tarleton Gillespie joins other scholars in considering the place of research and scholarship in a post-Trump USA. But as scholars, we do a disservice to allow for simple or single explanations. “Perfect storm” ... Read on CultureDigitally.orgNovember 2016 -
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Taylor & Francis OnlineD&S advisor Tarleton Gillespie writes "Algorithmically recognizable: Santorum’s Google problem, and Google’s Santorum problem". Abstract is below: Because information algorithms make judgments that can have powerful conseq... Read on Taylor & Francis OnlineJuly 2016 -
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CultureDigitally.orgD&S Advisor Tarleton Gillespie responds to Gizmodo's recent piece alleging bias in Facebook's Trending Topics list. He argues that information algorithms like the ones used to identify “trends” on Facebook do not work alone... Read on CultureDigitally.orgMay 2016 -
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DatabitesAlgorithms may now be our most important knowledge technologies, “the scientific instruments of a society at large,” and they are increasingly vital to how we organize human social interaction, produce authoritative knowledge, ... Read moreFebruary 2016 -
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Sage Journals"Social media platforms don’t just guide, distort, and facilitate social activity, they also delete some of it. They don’t just link users together, they also suspend them. They don’t just circulate our images and posts, they a... Read on Sage JournalsMay 2015