Tarleton Gillespie is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University.
He is the author of the book Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture.
Gillespie has been awarded the Young Faculty Teaching Excellence Award in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University; he was the commencement speaker for the Information Science/Information Science, Systems and Technology majors at Cornell University for 2007.