Balazs Bodo

Biographic Data

ID4405293
NAMEBalazs Bodo
GIVEN NAMESBalazs
FAMILY NAMEBodo
SIGNATUREBODÓ B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Amsterdam
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS28
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Tokenistic Decentralisation or Non-Tokenistic Distributism: Capitalist Blockchain Narratives and Varoufakis’s Alternative

    Open AccessReilly Smethurst, Tom Barbereau et al.ARTICLEtripleC Communication Capitalism…2025

    Yanis Varoufakis wrote a science fiction novel, Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present, to encourage post-capitalist political projects in our so-called real world. Costa, a protagonist from the novel, invents a portal that enables communication between his universe and a parallel universe. The two universes diverged after the global financial crisis in 2008. Private money networks like Bitcoin emerged in Costa’s capitalist universe,…

  • Governance by trust mediators in the digital society: The redistribution of risk and vulnerability

    Open AccessBéla Bodó, Balazs Bodo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Trust Research2025References: 20

  • Trust in context: The impact of regulation on blockchain and DeFi

    Open AccessBéla Bodó, Balazs Bodo et al.ARTICLERegulation & Governance2025Cited by: 2References: 44

    Trust is a key resource in financial transactions. Traditional financial institutions, and novel blockchain‐based decentralized financial (DeFi) services rely on fundamentally different sources of trust and confidence. The former relies on heavy regulation, trusted intermediaries, clear rules (and restrictions) on market competition, and long‐standing informal expectations on what banks and other financial intermediaries are supposed to do or not…

  • Maintaining trust in a technologized public sector

    Open AccessBéla Bodó, Balazs Bodo et al.ARTICLEPolicy and Society2022Cited by: 3References: 11

    Emerging technologies permeate and potentially disrupt a wide spectrum of our social, economic, and political relations. Various state institutions, including education, law enforcement, and healthcare, increasingly rely on technical components, such as automated decision-making systems, e-government systems, and other digital tools to provide cheap, efficient public services, and supposedly fair, transparent, disinterested, and accountable publi…

  • Decentralisation in the blockchain space

    Open AccessBéla Bodó, Balazs Bodo et al.ARTICLEInternet Policy Review2021

    The rapidly evolving blockchain technology space has put decentralisation back into the focus of the design of techno-social systems, and the role of decentralised technological infrastructures in achieving particular social, economic, or political goals. In this entry we address how blockchains and distributed ledgers think about decentralisation

  • Decentralisation: A multidisciplinary perspective

    Open AccessBéla Bodó, Balazs Bodo et al.ARTICLEInternet Policy Review2021

    This article belongs to Concepts of the digital society, a special section of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Christian Katzenbach and Thomas Christian Bächle. 1. Introduction The concept of decentralisation traverses multiple contexts, fields and disciplines

  • Personal data ordering in context: The interaction of meso-level data governance regimes with macro frameworks

    Open AccessBéla Bodó, Balazs Bodo et al.ARTICLEInternet Policy Review2021

    The technological infrastructures enabling the collection, processing, and trading of data have fuelled a rapid innovation of data governance models. We differentiate between macro, meso, and micro level models, which correspond to major political blocks; societal-, industry-, or community level systems, and individual approaches, respectively. We focus on meso-level models, which coalesce around: (1) organisations prioritising their own interest…

  • Online Political Microtargeting: Promises and Threats for Democracy

    Open AccessFrederik Zuiderveen Borgesius, Frederik J Zuiderveen Borgesius et al.ARTICLEUtrecht Law Review2018

    Online political microtargeting involves monitoring people’s online behaviour, and using the collected data, sometimes enriched with other data, to show people-targeted political advertisements. Online political microtargeting is widely used in the US; Europe may not be far behind. This paper maps microtargeting’s promises and threats to democracy. For example, microtargeting promises to optimise the match between the electorate’s concerns and po…

  • Political micro-targeting: A Manchurian candidate or just a dark horse

    Open AccessBéla Bodó, Balazs Bodo et al.ARTICLEInternet Policy Review2017Cited by: 23References: 1

    Political micro-targeting has become a popular topic after the surprise results of the 2016 US presidential election, the UK vote on leaving the European Union, and a number of general elections in Europe in 2017. Yet, we still know little about whether PMT is a tool with destructive potential or if it’s “just” a new phenomenon to be incorporated into our political processes

  • Should we worry about filter bubbles?

    Open AccessFrederik Zuiderveen Borgesius, Frederik J Zuiderveen Borgesius et al.ARTICLEInternet Policy Review2016

    Some fear that personalised communication can lead to information cocoons or filter bubbles. For instance, a personalised news website could give more prominence to conservative or liberal media items, based on the (assumed) political interests of the user. As a result, users may encounter only a limited range of political ideas. We synthesise empirical research on the extent and effects of self-selected personalisation, where people actively cho…