Albert Benschop is a Dutch sociologist with the University of Amsterdam's faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences. He is the chief editor of the university's SocioSite project.. His internet studies are published in the Peculiarities of Cyberspace.

Biography

Benschop received a master degree in sociology and psychology at the Vrije Universiteit

Vrije Universiteit

The Vrije Universiteit is a university in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Dutch name is often abbreviated as VU and in English the university uses the name "VU University". The university is located on a compact urban campus in the southern part of Amsterdam in the Buitenveldert district...

 Amsterdam early 1970s. In 1972 he made name as leader of the SRVU Students' union

Students' union

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 of the Vrije Universiteit

Vrije Universiteit

The Vrije Universiteit is a university in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Dutch name is often abbreviated as VU and in English the university uses the name "VU University". The university is located on a compact urban campus in the southern part of Amsterdam in the Buitenveldert district...

 Amsterdam, who occuptied the main building of the Vrije Universiteit during the student protests that year.

Since 1973 Benschop has been a lecturer and researcher at the department of Sociology

Sociology

Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. In the late 1990s het founded the SocioSite website, which is considered to be one of the world's most consulted social-science websites.

Publication list (extract)

English

• Classes - Outline of a Transformational Class Analysis, Summary, 1993
• Virtual Communities, Networks of the future, November 1997
• Web History, Building blocks of a historical-sociology of the internet, October 1997
• Learning at Distance, Building Blocks of a Web Sociology, 1997-1998
• NetLove and CyberSex, The (im)possibilities of bodiless intimacy, December 1997
• Sociology of Skywriting, The Internet as a medium and object of sociological research, 1998
• Death in Cyberspace, Funeral and mourning practices on the internet, July 2003
• Child Pornography in Cyberspace, Traces of Crimes, August 2003
• Flash Mob: Happening for Internetters, Swarming and the Future of Inexplicable and Smart Mobs, August 2003
• Flash Mob, Happening for Internetters, August 2003
• Regulation of CyberPorno, Moral and technological filters, social control and criminal prosecution, October 2003
• CyberStalking, Menaced on the internet, October 2003
• The future of the semantic web, Making content understandable for computers, April 2004
• Peer-to-peer: Networks of unknown friends, The power of sharing, March 2004
• Chronicle of a Political Murder Foretold, Jihad in the Netherlands, November 2005
• Jihadists running Wild(ers), I saw this film a long time ago, Mei 2008
• The Peculiarities of Second Life, The insatiable desire to start your life anew, September 2008
• Online Morality, Decency and Justice, Internet as a digital pillory, May 2009
• Egypt: Revolting with and without internet, Repression and Revolt in a military dictatorship, June 2011

Dutch

• NetActivisme en WolkBewegingen, Een wereld die te winnen is, November 2011
• Naar een nieuwe economische sociologie, 1996-2011
• Klassen - Ontwerp van een transformationele klassenanalyse, 1993-2011
• De klassentheorie van Marx, 1990-2011
• Max Weber’s bijdrage aan de theorie van sociale ongelijkheid en klassen, 1987-2011

External links

• Dr. Benschop's publication list