Tarleton Gillespie

8.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
51 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Tarleton Gillespie is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Marketing. According to data from OpenAlex, Tarleton Gillespie has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 11 papers in Communication and 10 papers in Marketing. Recurrent topics in Tarleton Gillespie's work include Social Media and Politics (10 papers), Copyright and Intellectual Property (10 papers) and Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (9 papers). Tarleton Gillespie is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (10 papers), Copyright and Intellectual Property (10 papers) and Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (9 papers). Tarleton Gillespie collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Tarleton Gillespie's co-authors include Kate Crawford, Robyn Caplan, Joshua A. Braun, Steven J. Jackson, Sandy Payette, Erik C. Nisbet, Dmitry Epstein, Ronald H. Selvester, Joseph C. Solomon and Sarah Myers West and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and New Media & Society.

In The Last Decade

Tarleton Gillespie

51 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

The politics of ‘platforms’ 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 2018 2020 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The politics of ‘platforms’
    2010 1.4k citations Tarleton Gillespie New Media & Society profile →
  2. Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media
    2018 294 citations Tarleton Gillespie profile →
  3. Content moderation, AI, and the question of scale
    2020 232 citations Tarleton Gillespie Big Data & Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tarleton Gillespie United States 23 2.0k 1.4k 933 465 420 51 3.8k
Thomas Poell Netherlands 27 3.3k 1.7× 2.2k 1.5× 530 0.6× 619 1.3× 661 1.6× 72 5.9k
Sanne Kruikemeier Netherlands 29 1.8k 0.9× 1.5k 1.1× 543 0.6× 157 0.3× 273 0.7× 77 3.3k
Petter Bae Brandtzæg Norway 31 1.9k 0.9× 995 0.7× 1.4k 1.5× 98 0.2× 223 0.5× 72 3.9k
Christoph Lutz Norway 36 2.3k 1.2× 612 0.4× 631 0.7× 154 0.3× 1.0k 2.4× 126 4.0k
James E. Katz United States 32 3.2k 1.6× 2.0k 1.4× 288 0.3× 282 0.6× 342 0.8× 133 5.6k
Axel Bruns Australia 47 3.2k 1.6× 4.1k 2.9× 735 0.8× 481 1.0× 184 0.4× 214 6.8k
Jonathon N. Cummings United States 25 2.6k 1.3× 2.4k 1.7× 270 0.3× 388 0.8× 132 0.3× 51 6.3k
Mark Andrejevic Australia 26 1.7k 0.9× 745 0.5× 179 0.2× 611 1.3× 178 0.4× 104 3.2k
Natali Helberger Netherlands 32 2.1k 1.1× 1.2k 0.9× 970 1.0× 76 0.2× 389 0.9× 150 4.2k
Lawrence Lessig United States 23 1.9k 1.0× 720 0.5× 466 0.5× 103 0.2× 614 1.5× 81 4.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tarleton Gillespie

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tarleton Gillespie

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Gillespie, Tarleton. (2024). Generative AI and the politics of visibility. Big Data & Society. 11(2). 33 indexed citations
2.
Gillespie, Tarleton. (2023). The Fact of Content Moderation; Or, Let’s Not Solve the Platforms’ Problems for Them. Media and Communication. 11(2). 8 indexed citations
3.
Baym, Nancy K., et al.. (2021). Making Sense of Metrics in the Music Industries. International journal of communication. 15. 24. 4 indexed citations
4.
Duguay, Stefanie, et al.. (2021). Deplatforming Sex: a roundtable conversation. Porn Studies. 8(4). 420–438. 24 indexed citations
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Sobieraj, Sarah, Gina Masullo Chen, Philip N. Cohen, Tarleton Gillespie, & Sarah J. Jackson. (2020). Politicians, Social Media, and Digital Publics: Old Rights, New Terrain. American Behavioral Scientist. 64(11). 1646–1669. 15 indexed citations
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Gillespie, Tarleton. (2020). Content moderation, AI, and the question of scale. Big Data & Society. 7(2). 232 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gillespie, Tarleton, Patricia Aufderheide, Elinor Carmi, et al.. (2020). Expanding the debate about content moderation: Scholarly research agendas for the coming policy debates. Internet Policy Review. 9(4). 92 indexed citations
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Gillespie, Tarleton. (2019). Custodians of the Internet. Yale University Press eBooks. 195 indexed citations
9.
Gillespie, Tarleton. (2018). A relevância dos algoritmos. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 6(1). 95–121. 1 indexed citations
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Gillespie, Tarleton & Hector Postigo. (2015). Introduction: From Culture Digitally. Social Media + Society. 1(2). 1 indexed citations
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Crawford, Kate & Tarleton Gillespie. (2014). What is a Flag for? Social Media Reporting Tools and the Vocabulary of Complaint. 4 indexed citations
12.
Jackson, Steven J., Tarleton Gillespie, & Sandy Payette. (2014). The policy knot. 588–602. 94 indexed citations
13.
Papacharissi, Zizi, Thomas Streeter, & Tarleton Gillespie. (2013). Culture Digitally: Habitus of the New. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. 57(4). 596–607. 7 indexed citations
14.
Gillespie, Tarleton. (2012). Can an Algorithm be Wrong?. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 18 indexed citations
15.
Gillespie, Tarleton. (2010). The Politics of 'Platforms'. eCommons (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations
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Gillespie, Tarleton. (2010). The politics of ‘platforms’. New Media & Society. 12(3). 347–364. 1384 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gillespie, Tarleton. (2009). Characterizing Copyright in the Classroom: The Cultural Work of Antipiracy Campaigns. Communication Culture and Critique. 2(3). 274–318. 13 indexed citations
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Gillespie, Tarleton. (2008). Engineering a Principle: 'End-to-End' in the Design of the Internet. SSRN Electronic Journal. 6 indexed citations
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Gillespie, Tarleton. (2007). Wired Shut. The MIT Press eBooks. 93 indexed citations
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Gillespie, Tarleton. (2002). Sleight of hand : law, technology, and the moral deployment of authorship in the Napster and DeCSS copyright cases. UMI eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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