Book Review by: Garth Mashmann
Abstract: Wired Shut discusses digital rights management and its effects on culture. Throughout the book, technologies are examined in a broad context. After discussing the Internet and its foundations generally, Gillespie questions the decisions that have been made regarding the Internet. After explaining how file sharing became demonized in public opinion, Wired Shut describes the history of three different trusted systems which have met different ends. The cultural implications of Digital Rights Management are considered.
About the Author: Tarleton Gillespie, an Assistant Professor at Cornell University in the Department of Communication, has affiliations with the department of Science and Technology Studies and Information Science Program. Gillespie is also a Fellow with the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School.
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