Tarleton Gillespie

Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, New England; also an affiliated associate professor in the Department of Communication and Department of Information Science, at Cornell University. On Twitter at @TarletonG

tarleton@microsoft.com

the great article gathering dust…

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I’ll admit it, I have one. A pile of articles I’ve collected, and am really, really meaning to read. Not just that, but some of them I know are going to be useful, important to my work, even from the abstract. A few I’m nearly embarrassed that I haven’t read yet. One or two of […]

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upcoming conferences

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I just added several relevant conferences to our Events Calendar, including some fast-approaching submission deadlines. Here’s the brief info, check the calendar and the links for more: Marxism and New Media (Durham, NC) Jan 20-21, 2012 250-500 word abstract due Oct 30 Mobilities (Raleigh, NC) March 16-18, 2012 800 word abstract due Oct 30 Digital […]

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A Conversation with Nick Couldry about Cultural Studies and Social Theory

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The Cultural Studies podcast, hosted by Toby Miller, has posted its latest interview, with our own Nick Couldry. Nick narrates his academic career and offers glimpses of his forthcoming book, Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice (Polity), which he calls: “An attempt to think about the implications for my earlier work on media […]

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Infographic: Bytes beat bricks [Fortune]

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In my continuing effort to think carefully about the digitization of distribution, Here’s a pretty helpful little bit of infographic frippery, that documents the growth of digital distribution models in relation to the brick and mortar counterparts. Might also be interesting to think about the explosion of “infographics” as a contemporary form of information presentation. […]

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