Tarleton Gillespie is currently an associate professor in the Communication Department here at Cornell, with graduate field appointments in Information Science and Science & Technology Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Communication from the University of California at San Diego in 2002, his M.A. from the same in 1997. His first book, Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture, was published in June of 2007 by MIT Press.