Balázs Bodó
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| 🎓 Alma mater | Corvinus University of Budapest Eötvös Loránd University |
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Balázs Bodó is Hungarian born a social scientist, socio-legal researcher, whose work focuses on information technology, law, and society. He is currently associate professor in the University of Amsterdam at the Institute for Information Law.
Education
Bodó holds a PhD in Media Studies from the Eötvös Loránd University Department of Media and Communications[1], a MSc in Macroeconomics and Economic Policy from Corvinus University of Budapest.
Academic career
Bodó obtained his PhD degree in Media Studies with his work on the history, and economic analysis of digital copyright piracy. He has published the history of copyright piracy in Hungarian as a monograph.[2]
While completing his PhD, during the 21006-07 academic year Bodó was a Fulbright fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School.Stanford. "Center for Internet and Society". Stanford University. In 2011, he was Fulbright fellow at Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.[3]
Bodó joined the Institute for Information Law in 2012 as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow. The following year he joined the Institute as a socio-legal researcher, working on Copyright law and policy, digital piracy, shadow libraries such as Library Genesis, and news Personalization.[4]
In 2017 he won the prestigious European Research Council Starting Grant, to study the upcoming clash between Open_source, Decentralized governance technologies (such as Blockchains), and the law, and launched the Blockchain and Society Policy Research Lab. This research led to the establishment of a 5-year interdisciplinary research program on the Trust dynamics in the Digital Society at the University of Amsterdam. [5] At the University of Amsterdam he is an Associate Professor, and the Program Director for the UvA's new, Advanced LLM program in Technology Governance.[6], a research based, interdisciplinary Advanced Master of Laws program discussing the latest legal, technological, and socio-cultural challenges of at the intersection of law, society and technology from a governance perspective.
Scholarship
Bodó's scholarship focuses on the conflicts, struggles, frictions between the technological and the legal forms of social governance. This involves both top-down efforts, such as regulation, or planetary-scale, centralized socio-technical infrastructures, as well as bottom-up initiatives, which take the form of social norms, informal governance structures, grey/black markets, and the corresponding technologies, which are decentralized, and open source. In 2006 he was the project lead for the Hungarian chapter of Creative Commons, and worked extensively on public arciving and digitization projects, such as the Hungarian National Audiovisual Archive.
Bodó is one of the leading authorities on shadow libraries, scholarly collections of academic texts. His work on the history of Library Genesis[7], and his empirical[8] [9], theoretical[10] analysis of the content, usage and internal organization of shadow libraries was been widely cited, and referenced in the media[11] [12] [13] He is also the signatory to the solidarity letter to Library Genesis, and Sci-Hub[14].
In 2018 he launched the Blockchain and Society Policy Research Lab, in order to trace the development of yet another open source, decentralized, bottom-up technology stack, to study the evolution of the social, political, economic ideas such a technological configuration would enable and foster. The subsequent studies into decentralized currencies, Digital ID systems, NFTs, DeFi applications and the associated economies, and social norms has turned his initial scepticism into heavy criticism, and disillusionment.
References
- ↑ doktori.hu. "Dr. Balazs Bodo". doktori.hu.
- ↑ Typotex. "Szerzoi jog kalozai". Typotex (in magyar).
- ↑ Harvard. "Berkman Klein Alumn Page". Berkman Klein Center. Retrieved 2025-01-28.
- ↑ UvA (2025-01-24). "Dr. Balazs Bodo University of Amsterdam Profile Page". University of Amsterdam.
- ↑ UvA. "Trust in the Digital Society". University of Amsterdam.
- ↑ UvA. "Advanced LLM in Technology Governance". Advanced LLm in Technology Governance at University of Amsterdam.
- ↑ Bodó, Balázs (2018-05-04). The Genesis of Library Genesis: The Birth of a Global Scholarly Shadow Library. The MIT Press. doi:10.7551/mitpress/11339.003.0003. ISBN 978-0-262-34569-9. Search this book on
- ↑ Bodo, Balazs (2018). Library Genesis in Numbers: Mapping the Underground Flow of Knowledge. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262345699. Search this book on
- ↑ Bodó, Balázs; Antal, Dániel; Puha, Zoltán (2020-12-03). "Can scholarly pirate libraries bridge the knowledge access gap? An empirical study on the structural conditions of book piracy in global and European academia". PLOS ONE. 15 (12): e0242509. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0242509. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 7714232 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 33270680 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Porsdam, Helle, ed. (2016-03-09). Copyrighting Creativity (0 ed.). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315574257. ISBN 978-1-317-15958-2. Search this book on
- ↑ "E-Book-Piraterie am Ende?". Deutschlandfunk Kultur. 2024.
- ↑ "De vrouw die door de muren van de kennis heen breekt [Print] Volkskrant". Volkskrant. 2022.
- ↑ "Web3 tech helps banned books on piracy site Library Genesis slip through the Great Firewall's cracks, but for how long?". South China Morning Post. 2022.
- ↑ "In solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub". 2015.
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