MediaBerkman

Tarleton Gillespie on The Politics of Platforms

January 19th, 2010

Though online media platforms such as YouTube and Facebook often make the promise to openly and impartially host all content, they actively make decisions about where the edges of these platforms should be: what should and should not appear, how content should be organized, what should be featured or squirreled away, and how it should be patrolled.

Tarleton Gillespie – assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University, a fellow at the Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School, and author of Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture – sees this array of interventions together as structuring contemporary public discourse, and situates them in the history of commercial obligations around free speech.

Click Above for Video
…or download the OGG video format!

Be Sociable, Share!

• 
• 

Entry Filed under: video