Stanford Center for Internet and Society

In the heart of the Silicon Valley, legal doctrine is emerging that will determine the course of civil rights and technological innovation for decades to come. The Center for Internet and Society (CIS), housed at Stanford Law School and a part of the Law, Science and Technology Program, is at the apex of this evolving area of law.

Tarleton Gillespie

Professional/Job Title: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Communciation, Cornell University
Bio: Tarleton Gillespie is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University, with affiliations in the Department of Science and Technology Studies and the Information Science program. He is also a fellow with the Center for Internet and Society at the Stanford School of Law. His first book, Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture, will be published by MIT Press in April 2007 -- see more at http://www.wiredshut.org/. He is an associate editor for the journals The Information Society and Social Studies of Science. He teaches courses dealing with new media and society, copyright and information policy, and communication and information technologies.
Personal Website: http://www.tarletongillespie.org/