Tarleton Gillespie – Culture Digitally

Is Twitter us or them? #twitterfail and living somewhere between public commitment and private investment

Tarleton Gillespie · July 31, 2012

This is about the fourth Olympics that’s been trumpeted as the first one to embrace social media and the Internet — just as, depending on how you figure it, it’s about the fourth U.S. election in a row that’s the first to go digital. It may be in the nature of new technologies that we […]

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Dialogue: reflecting on Chapter 2 of Nick Couldry’s Media, Society, World

Tarleton Gillespie · June 7, 2012

A few weeks ago, Nick Couldry shared a chapter from his new book, Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice, published by Polity Press. A number of Culture Digitally participants commented on his idea of approaching “media as practice,” and Nick had a chance to respond. Rather than losing this discussion in the comment thread, […]

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Announcement: Limn #2, “Crowds and Clouds” including essays by Gillespie and Kreiss

Tarleton Gillespie · May 14, 2012

The second issue of Limn, titled “Crowds and Clouds,” has just been published. My own piece is a slightly expanded version of my essay, posted here first, called “Can an Algorithm Be Wrong?” But there are a number of other essays that will be of great interest to this audience, including a contribution from Culture […]

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Five more points

Culture Digitally, Tarleton Gillespie, Hector Postigo and Translation-By Hector-Postigo · May 4, 2012

Culture Digitally is now a year old, and we are extremely grateful to the initial cadre of participants, the guest bloggers, and all of the readers that have helped make it a vibrant place for the circulation of ideas and research around digital cultural production. As part of the NSF award that supports Culture Digitally, […]

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The dirty job of keeping Facebook clean

Tarleton Gillespie · February 22, 2012

Last week, Gawker received a curious document. Turned over by an aggrieved worker from the online freelance employment site oDesk, the document iterated, over the course of several pages and in unsettling detail, exactly what kinds of content should be deleted from the social networking site that had outsourced its content moderation to oDesk’s team. […]

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