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    Articles by Tarleton Gillespie

    Tarleton Gillespie is principal researcher at Microsoft Research New England and an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Communication and the Department of Information Science at Cornell University.
    May 3, 2018
    Facebook and YouTube just got more transparent. What do we see?
    Transparency, even in its candor, is a performance, leaving as much unseen as seen.
    August 25, 2017
    Is “platform” the right metaphor for the technology companies that dominate digital media?
    Metaphors don’t just highlight a comparison — they also downplay the aspects they don’t capture. And “platform” papers over some of the big questions social media raises.
    May 19, 2016
    Algorithms, clickworkers, and the befuddled fury around Facebook Trends
    “Trends are not the same as news, but Facebook kinda wants them to be.”
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