Education:
2007 Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School
2010 Eötvös Lóránd University, Doctoral Program in Film, Media and Contemporary Culture
Ph.D. with distinction (summa cum laude) in Communications & Media Theory
Thesis title: Necessity knows no laws – The role of copyright pirates in the cultural ecosphere from the printing press to P2P networks.
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 http://www.uniworld.hu/
Honors and Awards:
2009 Ranked as #40 on the list of Best Lecturers in the 2007/08 academic year (based on student quality feedback, from among approx. 1500 faculty)
2006-2007 Fulbright Visiting Researcher at Stanford Law School, Center for Internet and Society
1998 Special Award, Economics Section
National Scientific Circle of Students copmetition (OTDK)
Title of the paper: Defining Universal Service on the Internet
1998 Best paper in Political Sciences
Budapest University of Economic Sciences Scientific Circle of Students competition (TDK)
Title of the paper: Understanding Universal Service
1997 TEMPUS Scholarship
Windesheim College, Zwolle, The Netherlands, Program in Media and Documentary Film
Professional Career:
2010- Member of the National Copyright Expert Council
2007-2010 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 (renewed in 2010)
2001- Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Sociology
and Communications
Head of Masters Program in Cultural industries (2009-),
Founding member, researcher at the Centre for Media Research and Education (2004-)
Lecturer
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.
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 http://www.travelport.hu/
Teaching Experience
Budapest University of Technology and Economics (undergraduate, BA, BSC courses)
Question of internet media 2002-2004
Communications theory for economists 2004-2006
Art and communications: street art and the public space 2001- 2007
Technology and culture 2004-2006
Ad cultures 2003-2006
Intercultural communications 2007-2010
Networked communities 2007/08
History of media and communications 2007-
Budapest University of Technology and Economics (graduate, MA, MSC courses)
New media regulation and policy 2003-2008
Media economics 2003-2006
Network economics 2004-2006
Global Cultural Industries 2009-
Corvinus University (formerly Budapest University of Economic Sciences)
Széchenyi and Rajk Colleges (graduate, MA, MSC level courses)
New media regulation and policy 2007-2008
University of California Study abroad program (undergraduate level courses) The Samizdat Writer, The Hacker, The Pirate, And The Political Protester- The Transgressors And The Circulation Of Signs And Meanings 2008-2010
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)
2002-2003 E-learning content and development methodology research program (Grant # “T013-PRIII/0004 Didakta”, value: approx 800k USD)
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
FreeCulture2010
Program Committee Member, Panel Moderator
October 7-9, Berlin
Book Publishing and Book Trade in the Age of Digital Copies
organized by the Hungarian Ministry of Justice, the Hungarian Patent Office, and the Anti-Counterfeiting National Committee
panel moderator and program committee member
April 23, 2010, Budapest
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)
Program Committee Member
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 Central European University, Budapest University of Technology and economics, Open Society Institute and the Annenberg School for Communication at UPenn.
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 physical and virtual spaces
Program Chair
March – October 2004
Invited participant, panelist, expert contributor
The Google book project and the Hungarian e-book market
Conference on Book marketing
April 15, 2010, Budapest
HASTAC virtual conference
panelist (panel moderator: Christian Sandvig)
April, 2010, online at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/04/hastac
ALTERNATIVE CULTURE NOW INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
organized by the International Alternative Culture Center (Hungary) and the University of Alberta (Canada), with support from CRC CEU and OSI-HESP
panel moderator
April 8-10, 2010, Budapest
Trans-border cultural communities and the borderless internet INTERMAGYAR symposium for journalist in the Hungarian diaspora organized by the Association of Hungarian Journalists
March 20, 2010, Budapest
Legal and moral entrepreneurs and the future of content digitalization
Digitalization, but.. conference
organized by The Library of the Hungarian Parliament. March 17, 2010 Budapest
The Pirates of the Pirates of the Caribbean: File-sharing Networks as Distributed Archives and Context Creating Networks
Circuits of Profit: Business Network Research Conference
organized by Central European University Center for Network Science (CNS), Maven Seven Network Research Ltd., Social Network Analysis section of the Hungarian Sociological Association
January 10, 2010, Budapest
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
March, 2009, Budapest
Barcamp Bratislava
February 2009, Bratislava
Pirates and online networks
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
Coppers and Robbers Conference
Panelist, Round table on Collecting societies and Creative Commons
October, 2008, Ljubljana, Slovenia
What is Creative Commons?
Open Source Farm – Conference on Open Source Software, Open Standards, and Open Culture
October 9. 2008, Budapest
Strategy workshop on IP Enforcement Issues
Hosted by the OSI Information Program,
panelist
June 2008, London
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.
panelist
June, 2008, London
Public Voice – an effort to represent public interest at the OECD Ministerial Conference,
member
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
Digital Undergrounds
From Samizdat to Blogging: International conference on Globalization and New Forms of Political Expression
20-21 February, 2008, Budapest
Ad-blocking and ad-based business models
Internet Hungary Conference
Panelist
2007, Tihany
Hacking the culture industries
Hacktivity conference
Budapest, September, 2007
On Creative Commons
“The Budapest Dialogue – Intellectual Property, Creative Economies and their Consumers”
International Conference
September, 2007, Budapest
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
Stanford Law School, Center for Internet and Society, CIS/SLATA Lunch Talk series
October 23, 2006
Paper presenter
Necessity knows no Laws
ESF-COST High-Level Research Conference on Future Internet and Society
2-7 October 2010, Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy
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
July 6-10, 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
September, 2007, Budapest
Pirate communities and underground distribution networks
‘Re-Thinking Cultural Economy’ conference
Manchester University Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC)
http://www.cresc.ac.uk/events/conference/index.html
September, 2007, Manchester UK
What can we learn from p2p pirates?
57th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association: Creating Communication: Content, Control, Critique
May, 2007, San Francisco
Social Networks, peer communities
Mindentudás Egyeteme
May, 2007, Budapest
Recycled revolution
Capturing the Moving Mind: Management and Movement in the Age of Permanently Temporary War, An ephemera conference on the Trans-Siberian train
September, 2005, Moscow-Novosibirsk-Beijing
Selected Publications
Bodó, B. (2011) Szükség törvényt bont – a szerzői jogi kalózok szerepe a kulturális termelés és elosztás folyamataiban a könyvnyomtatástól a P2P hálózatokig. Typotex, Budapest
Bodó, B. (forthcoming): The motivational background of illegal file-sharers. in Z. Kacsuk & T. Tószegi (eds), Networks of Music. Budapest: L’Harmattan
Bodó, B., & Lakatos, Z. (2010). ‘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) Media Piracy in Emerging Economies (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. (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, 01/12/2010