B. (Ben) Wagner
B. (Ben) Wagner
Profile
Ben Wagner is Associate Professor Human Rights and Technology at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management and Director of the AI Futures Lab at TU Delft. He is also Professor of Media, Technology and Society at Inholland. His research focuses on the governance of socio-legal systems, in particular human rights in digital technologies, and designing more accountable decision-support systems.
He is a visiting researcher at the Human Centered Computing Group at Oxford University, advisory board member of the data science journal Patterns and on the International Scientific Committee of the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub. Ben spends 3 days a week working at TU Delft and 2 days a week working at Inholland.
Previously, Ben served as founding Director of the Center for Internet & Human Rights at European University Viadrina, Director of the Sustainable Computing Lab at Vienna University of Economics and member of the Advisory Group of the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA). He holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from European University Institute in Florence.
Expertise
Publications
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2021
Constructing a mutually supportive interface between ethics and regulation
Sylvie Delacroix / Ben Wagner
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2020
Regulating transparency? Facebook, twitter and the German network enforcement act
Ben Wagner / Krisztina Rozgonyi / Marie Therese Sekwenz / Jennifer Cobbe / Jatinder Singh
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2019-3
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2018
Understanding Internet Shutdowns
A Case Study from Pakistan
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2014-2-1
The Politics of Internet Filtering
The United Kingdom and Germany in a Comparative Perspective
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Prizes
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2023-1-6
Best Paper Award – 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Internet and the Digital Economy Track/Minitrack: Human-centricity in a Sustainable Digital Economy
56th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2023 -
2013
Best Student Paper Award at the 1st International Conference on Internet Science
The 1st international conference on Internet Science
Ancillary activities
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2023-09-01 - 2025-08-31
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