Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Internet governance professor and author
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is an Oxford professor who studies internet governance and regulation. He co-wrote Big Data and Framers.
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Austrian Born 1966 in Zell am See, Austria
About Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger was born in 1966 in Zell am See, Austria. He teaches at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, as a professor of internet governance and regulation, and his research looks at the network economy. Earlier in his career, he spent ten years teaching at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He co-wrote the international bestseller Big Data with Kenneth Cukier, and Framers with Cukier and Francis de Vericourt. His book Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age won the 2010 Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book. He has also written more than a hundred articles and book chapters, and has been a member of Germany's Digital Council.