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Balazs Bodo, lecturer
Bodó Balázs (1975), economist, assistant lecturer, researcher at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Sociology and Communications, Center for Media Research and Education since 2001. His academic interests include sociocultural impacts of new media, media regulation, online communities. Leader of the development of several commercial internet applications as well as numerous academic research projects dealing with digital archives, e-learning and online communities. Editor, curator of the Budapest based non-pofit community radio Radio Tilos.
During 2006/07 he was a Fulbright visiting researcher at Stanford Law Scool, Center for Internet and Society.
His research blog can be read at www.warsystems.hu.
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Education:
2007 Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School
2001-2010 Eötvös Lóránd University, Doctoral Program in Film, Media and Contemporary Culture
Ph.D. candidate in Communications
Thesis title: The impact of illegal p2p communities on the Hungarian cultural ecosphere.
Expected date of defense : January 31. 2010.
1993-1999 Budapest University of Economic Sciences
Bsc in Economics, MSc in Economic Policy and International Relations
1994-1999 Budapest University of Economic Sciences
Széchenyi István College of Social Sciences
1997-1998 Uniworld International E-University
Philosophy of Communications
Honors and Awards:
2006-2007 Fulbright Visiting Researcher at Stanford Law School, Center for Internet and Society
1998 National Scientific Circle of Students (OTDK)
Defining Universal Service on the Internet
Special Award, Economics Section
1998 BUES Scientific Circle of Students (TDK)
Understanding Universal Service
1. Prize, Political Science Section
1997 TEMPUS Scholarship
Windesheim College, Zwolle, The Netherlands, Program in Media and Documentary Film
Professional Career:
2007- Special Advisor to the director of the Hungarian National Data Repository and the Hungarian National Audiovisual Archives
2006- Stanford Law School, Center for Internet and Society, Non-Residential Fellow
2001- Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Associate Lecturer - Dept. of Sociology and Communications, Centre for Media Research and Education
Interests: media regulation, cultural economies, copyright and intellectual property, information commons, digital underground, new media and activism, peer production networks, file-sharing, piracy. New urbanism, public spaces and the city.
Courses held in Sociology and Economy of New Media, Transfer of Knowledge using Digital Media, Arts and Communications, Public art, street art, subversive uses of urban public spaces, Media Economics, Network Economics, Legal and Economic Infrastructures of Culture Production and Distribution.
1998-2002 T-Online Rt. (Hungarian Telecommunications Company Content Project)
product manager, senior project manager, R+D advisor
Independent Projects:
Vizsla: national search engine, directory, thesaurus, Project Lead
http://vizsla.origo.hu/katalogus
Travelport: worldwide travel portal, Merger & Acquisition
Teaching Experience
@ the Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Street art, resistance and urban space
The political city: general elections, politics, and the city
Intercultural Communications
Media and Communications History
Internet and regulation: the regulatory environment of new media
@ Corvinus University (Rajk László College, Széchenyi István College)
The economics of information production and distribution
Commons based peer production networks
@ University of California, Study Abroad program
The samizdat writer, the hacker, the pirate, and the graffiti writer - the transgressors and the circulation of signs and meanings
Research, grants
2007-2010 Toward Détente in Media Piracy, international research project on piracy on the global cultural markets. Funded by The Ford Foundation, Center for Assistance to Pollution Victims, Beijing, CN, International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada, Friends of Nature.
2007-2010 COMMUNIA - European Thematic Network on the Public Domain in the Digital Age
2007-2010 Alternative Culture Beyond Borders: Past and Present of the Arts and Media in the Context of Globalization (with support of OSI-HESP ReSET and in collaboration with St. Petersburg State University (Russia), McMaster University (Canada), OSA Archivum (Hungary), and International Samizdat [Research] Associaton.)
2006-2009 P2P Fusion – a social network based p2p technology. EU FP6 research consortium.
2004- Creative Commons Hungary http://creativecommns.org/ Project Lead.
2003-2005 Agyfarm (Brainfarm) – Online technology and collaborative environment for academic research and communication (Grant # OM IKTA-5, value: approx 300k USD)
http://www.agyfarm.hu/
Coordinator, researcher
2002-2003 E-learning content and development methodology research program (Grant # "T013-PRIII/0004 Didakta", value: approx 800k USD)
http://www.apertus.hu/
http://www.coedu.hu/
Coordinator, chief researcher
2001 Feasibility study on free online course material production and distribution for the Hungarian higher education,
Researcher
Conferences, public talks, professional associations
Conference organizer, program committee member
Research Workshop on Free Culture
Program Committee Member
October 23, 2009, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Alternative Culture(s) and Urban Space, International Conference,
In cooperation with the International Alternative Culture Center (Hungary) and Urban Laboratory at European Humanities University (Lithuania), CEU Curriculum Resource Center, OSI HESP, CEU OSA Archivum and McMaster University (Canada)
2-3 April 2009, Budapest
First International Research Workshop on Free Culture
Program Committee Member,
Jul 29–Aug 1, 2008, Sapporo, Japan
National Audiovisual Media Strategy – series of workshops and conferences around key issues in media policy.
In collaboration with the Institute for Legal Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Corvinus University, and the National Radio and Television Authority.
Program Chair
September-December 2007, Budapest
RE:Activism: international conference on new media and activism,
a joint project by CEU, BUTE, OSI and the Annenberg School for Communication
Program committee member, and Chair of the Organizing Committee
October 2005, Budapest, http://mokk.bme.hu/centre/conferences/reactivism/index_html?set_language=en&cl=en
The Freedom of Culture – the economics of creative expression
In collaboration with the Institute for Legal Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Program Chair
March 2006, Budapest
„What kind of space do we build here?” series of workshops and public lectures on the interconnectedness of mental, physical and virtual spaces
Program Chair
March - October 2004
Invited participant, panelist, expert contributor
The future of online content distribution
Roundtable organized by the Hungarian Patent Office and the National Anti-Counterfeiting Organization, November 17, 2009 Budapest
Creative Commons and open education
Open Education Forum, November 7-8, 2009, Budapest
Where to go with Creative Commons?
Web2.0 Conference, Budapest, March, 2009
Barcamp Bratislava
February 2009, Bratislava
Hamisítási (T)rend 2008 – conference on counterfeiting and copyright infringement
Organized by the Hungarian Association for the Protection of Industrial Property and Copyright , Siófok, November, 2008
Civilization painted over- conference on educators and street art
November, 2008, Budapest, Ludwig Múzeum
Coppers and Robbers Conference – Panelist, Round table on Collecting societies and Creative Commons
October, 2008, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Open Source Farm – Conference on Open Source Software, Open Standards, and Open Culture
2008. október 9., Budapest
Strategy workshop on IP Enforcement Issues
Hosted by the OSI Information Program, London, June 2008
Toward Détente in Media Piracy – a research and advocacy collaboration network organized by the Social Science Research Council, Sarai and the Alternative Law Forum, the Instituto Overmundo at the Fundação Getulio Vargas, and the Association of Progressive Communications and the LINK Center.
Member of Public Voice – an effort to represent public interest at the OECD Ministerial Conference,
June 17-18, 2008, Seoul, Korea.
Between Art and Trespass – Graffiti and the Urban Public Spaces
Workshop organized by the Mayor of Budapest
May 2008, Budapest
From Samizdat to Blogging: Globalization and New Forms of Political Expression,
20-21 February, 2008, Budapest
Ad-blocking and ad-based business models
Panelist at Internet Hungary Conference
2007, Tihany
Hacking the culture industries
Hacktivity conference
http://hacktivity.hu/
Budapest, September, 2007
On Creative Commons
"The Budapest Dialogue - Intellectual Property, Creative Economies and their Consumers"
International Conference
Budapest, September, 2007
Underground commons - keynote speech
3. ICommons Summit
Dubrovnik, June, 2007
File sharing networks and their role in cultural preservation in Hungary
Guest speaker at the Chicago-Kent College of Law
March 22, 2007
Robin Hood Digital
Paper presented at Stanford Law School, Center for Internet and Society, CIS/SLATA Lunch Talk series,
October 23, 2006
Paper presenter
The Hungarian p2p film-sharing market and the fate of cinema distribution
Internet Use and Impact conference, November 05 – 06, 2009, APPLIED ECONOMETRICS ASSOCIATION, Marseille, France
The Hungarian p2p cultural black market – an empirical research
Hactivity Conference, September, 2009, Budapest
P2P black markets in Hungary
4th Inclusiva-net Meeting: P2P Networks and Processes, 6-10 July 2009, Madrid, Spain
Movie pirates and cinema distribution
International Conference on Media Piracy
April, 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Music pirates on and offline
Networks of Music Conference
October, 2008 Budapest
Underground commons, illegal archives- the secret life of intellectual properties
“Towards a Philosophy of Telecommunications Convergence” International Conference
http://www.socialscience.t-mobile.hu/2007/prog2007_en.html
Budapest, September, 2007
'Re-Thinking Cultural Economy' conference
Manchester University Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC)
http://www.cresc.ac.uk/events/conference/index.html
Manchester, September, 2007
What can we learn from p2p pirates?
Paper to be presented at the 57th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association: Creating Communication: Content, Control, Critique,
San Francisco, May, 2007
Social Networks, peer communities
Mindentudás Egyeteme, http://www.mindentudas.hu/, May, 2007
Recycled revolution
Paper presentation and on-site research at the Capturing the Moving Mind: Management and Movement in the Age of Permanently Temporary War, An ephemera conference on the Trans-Siberian train
(Moscow-Novosibirsk-Beijing), September, 2005
On e-learning
The results of Didakta e-learning development program (in Hungarian), II. SZTAKI e-learning forum, Budapest, 03/26/2003
(auto)Didakta, a successful private-public partnership program (in Hungarian), Networkshop, Pécs, 04/17/2003
The uses of e-learning for the Hungarian speaking community living outside of Hungary (in Hungarian), Sapientia University, Marosvásárhely, Romania, 04/25/2003
The results of Didakta e-learning development program (in Hungarian), Coedu Conference, Budapest, 05/16/2003
E-learning Methodology for the Hungarian higher education (in Hungarian), Coedu Conference, Budapest, 05/16/2003
On new media regulation and online communities
„Regulation in Digital Space”, Media Centar, Sarajevo, 05/02/2003
Panelist at the virtual complement of the Centre Jacques Cartier conference : The Future of Web Publishing
The technological support of emergent communities (in Hungarian), PTE School of Communications, Kán, 05/31/2003
Brainfarm, a new model of collaboration and communication to support academic research, IKTA Forum, 09/14/2003
Regulatory Aspects of New Media – The Effect of Internet to the Conventional Institutions of Power and Control and vica versa, Kakanien Institut, NetKultur Wissenschaft, Budapest, 12/11/2003
On urbanism and new media
Activism and urbanism
Gerilla Propaganda Nonstop Workshop, Dinamó Gallery, 10/19/2003
Painting, mixing, skateboarding
“The New Spaces of Public” Conference, Pécs, 12/05/2003
The Youth and the city –
Townhall lectures, panelist, 03/09/2004
Public art in urban landscapes 03/18/2004,
Iparművészeti Egyetem, Intermédia Intézet
Samizdat in the digital age 04/26/2004,
Samizdat exhibition lecture series, Budapest
Appropriation of urban public spaces. 04/28/2004,
Media factory exhibition and lecture series, Pécs
Selected Publications
Bodó, B., & Lakatos, Z. (forthcoming). 'A filmek online feketepiaca és a moziforgalmazás (Online black market of films and the movie distribution)', Szociológiai Szemle (Review of Sociology of the Hungarian Sociological Association).
Bodó, B. (forthcoming). 'Coda: A Short History of Book Piracy' in J. Karaganis (ed), Towards a Détente in Media Piracy. New York: Social Science Research Council.
Bodó, B. (2007). The Club model of cultural consumption and distribution. Budapest: Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
Bodó, B., Halácsy, P., Korsós, M., Prekopcsák, Z., & Szalai, A. (2007). P2P hálózatok vizsgálata. Budapest: Kitchen Budapest Medialab.
Bodó, B., & Gyenge, A. (2007). A könyvtári kölcsönzések után fizetendő jogdíj közgazdasági szempontú elemzése (Economic analysis of public lending rights), Ingyenebéd. Budapest: Szabadlovas Közgazdász Egyesület.
Bodó, B. (2006). 'A szerzői jog gazdaságtana az online világban (The economics of copyright in the online world)' in B. Wellman, P. Halácsy & G. Vályi (eds), Hatalom a mobil tömegek kezében (Power in the hands of mobile masses). Budapest: Typotex.
Bodó, B. (2006). '50bri Jó5k4 |)!9!t41', Café Bábel(53).
Bodó, B. (2004). 'Szerzett immunhiány (Urban Immunodeficiency)', Mozgó Világ(11).
Bodó, B., & Szakadát, I. (2004). 'Szabad szoftver, nyílt archívum, szabad hozzáférés (Open softwares, open archives, open access)', Magyar Távközlés (Hungarian Telecommunications)(August).
Bodó, B. (2003). 'Bolyongás egy áldás nélküli térben (Meandering in a graceless space)', Café Bábel(Május).
Bodó, B. (2003). 'A „mély link” Internetes tartalomszolgáltatók vs. Internet (“The deep link”– how to control deep linking services)', Beszélő(Summer).
Bodó, B., & Szekfű, B. (eds.) (2003). Hálózati Gazdaságtan Szöveggyűjtemény (Network Economics Reader). Budapest: Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
Bodó, B., & Pintér, R. (2002). Bevezetés az információs társadalomba (Introduction to Information Society), Media Institute e-learning course. Budapest: Hungarian Telecom.
Guest Editor of the Special Issue of Peer Reviewed Journal EASTBOUND
RE:activism - re-drawing the boundaries of activism in new media environment
Languages
English Proficient
French Proficient
Hungarian mother tongue
Other:
Driving License
Computer Skills
windows, office, SPSS, Visual Basic, SQL
Extracurricular activities
1998- 2008 Tilos Rádió (non-profit community Radio in Budapest)
Editor-Reporter,
Member of the board
Hobbies
Travel, art, literature, music, gastronomy
Budapest, 11/01/09
