Albert Benschop (born 10 May 1949, Rijswijk) 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.
Benschop received a master's degree in sociology and psychology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam early 1970s. In 1972 he made name as leader of the SRVU Students' union of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, who occupied 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 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.
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
Kwetsbare Slimme Woningen - Hoe veilig is mijn thuisnetwerk?, 24 November 2016.
Slimme Autos Hacken - Hoe veilig zijn onze (semi)autonome voertuigen?, 22 November 2016.
Verhitte cyberoorlog in 2016 - — Digitaal wapengekletter tussen Rusland en de VS, 5 November 2016.
ISIS en het Cyberkalifaat - — Internet als arena voor jihad, 15 Juni 2016.
E-stonia - Contouren van een gevirtualiseerde samenleving, January 2016.
Cyberoorlog - Slagveld internet [2013] Uitgeverij De Wereld, Tilburg.
NetActivisme en WolkBewegingen, Een wereld die te winnen is. November 2011-2013
Naar een nieuwe economische sociologie, 1996–2011
Klassen - Ontwerp van een transformationele klassenanalyse, 1993–2013
De klassentheorie van Marx, 1990–2011
Max Weber’s bijdrage aan de theorie van sociale ongelijkheid en klassen, 1987–2011
