Tarleton Gillespie - Research

Research

Gillespie is currently researching the impact of the Internet and modern media technologies on copyright law and the progression of copyright law in the digital age. He is also interested in topics such as digital rights management and other digital copy protection strategies and their effect on culture. Broader interests include debates on peer-to-peer file-sharing, information technology, animation and children's media.

The Basics of Gillespie article "The Politics of 'Platforms': The article "The Politics of 'Platforms" by Tarleton Gillespie provides the information of how one word can provide many paths for an online content provider. He has grouped the word 'platform' into four distinct categories that can help define what an online software platform does. He categorizes the word platform as computational, architectual, figurative and political. All four of these categories relate to why the term ‘platform’ has "emerged in reference to online content-hosting intermediaries and, just as important, what value both its specificity and its flexibility offer them" (The Platform of Politics,p.350). To read more: The Politics of Platform

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