publications

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report Clouded Judgments: Problematizing Cloud Infrastructures for News Media Companies, by Agustin Ferrari Braun and Corinne Cath. Jan 2026

op-ed De ware prijs van AI: groei ten kost van de planeet Samenleving & Politiek by Fieke Jansen. Nov 2025

report report Pathways through the Polycrisis: Proceedings of the critical infrastructure lab retreat critical infrastructure lab document series CIL#012, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17417380. Oct 2025

book chapter People’s Practices in the Face of Data Power, Dialogues in Data Power. Shifting Response-abilities in a Datafied World, Roderic Crooks, Catherine D’Ignazio, Arne Hintz, Fieke Jansen, Juliane Jarke, Anne Kaun, Stine Lomborg, Dan McQuillan, Jonathan A. Obar, Lucy Pei, and Ana Pop Stefanija. Sep 2025

blog What are we sustaining, the internet or the planet? PITG, by Fieke Jansen. Aug 2025

paper European ambitions captured by American clouds: digital sovereignty through Gaia-X? Information, Communication & Society, 1–18, Andreas Baur. Jul 2025

blog Sustainable and Equitable Infrastructures: Moving from Extraction to Regeneration, Branch Issue 9, by Fieke Jansen. Jul 2025

special issue Issue 9: Attunement – Designing in an Era of Constraints, by Fershad Irani, Fieke Jansen & Michelle Thorne (ED), and Hannah Smith & Katrin Fritsch (Producers). Jul 2025

report Standardisation with Chinese Characteristics by Ferreira Gomes, Okano-Heijmans, Sainato, ten Oever, and Lüdtke. Jul 2025

report Critical Internet Governance: From Positions to a Field by critical infrastructure lab and Research Network on Internet Governance (REDE) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15627726. Jun 2025

report Putting Money Where Your Mouth Is? Insights into EU R&I Funding for Digital Technologies by Zuzanna Warso & Meret Baumgartner https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15263223. Apr 2025

report Clouds Over the Netherlands: Preserving Public Interest Internet Governance in the Era of Hyperscaler Clouds by Corinne Cath https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15230913. Apr 2025

statement Within Bounds: Limiting AI's environmental impact. Joint statement from civil society for the AI Action Summit, prepared by Green Screen Coalition, Green Web Foundation, Beyond Fossil Fuels, Aspiration, and the critical infrastructure lab and signed by 100 civil society organizations. Feb 2025

book chapter Wartime Transformation of Novaya Gazeta by Dmitry Kuznetsov. Jan 2025

report chapter predatory delay and other myths of “sustainable ai”, redirecting europe's ai industrial policy; from competitiveness to public interest fieke jansen & michelle thorne. Oct 2024

paper The Practice of Predictive Identification: Optimising for Organisational Needs Surveillance & Society Vol. 22 No. 3, Fieke Jansen. Oct 2024

rfc Guidelines for Human Rights Protocol and Architecture Considerations Internet Research Task Force (IRTF), G. Grover, N. ten Oever. Sep 2024

paper Sanctions and infrastructural ideologies: Assessing the material shaping of EU digital sovereignty in response to the war in Ukraine Policy & Internet, Niels ten Oever, Clement Perarnaud, John Kristoff, Moritz Müller, Max Resing, Arturo Filasto, Chris Kanich. Sep 2024

white paper white paper White Paper “How to Meet Europe’s Digital Infrastructure Needs? (in Dutch) - consultation submission by the critical infrastructure lab. Jun 2024

report Network paradigms and infrastructural ideologies: Standards and protocols in a geopolitical context, Maxigas, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10912418. Apr 2024

report Down with Data Centres: Developing Critical Policy - report on a workshop organised at Privacy Camp 2024 by University of Delft and the critical infrastructure lab, Fieke Jansen & Corinne Cath, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11059837. Mar 2024

paper Internet Sanctions on Russian Media: Actions and Effects. Free and Open Communications on the Internet 2024, 1:1–12, Kristoff, John, Moritz Müller, Arturo Filastò, Max Resing, Chris Kanich, and Niels ten Oever. Mar 2024

paper Interrogating the standardisation of surveillance in 5G amid US–China competition. Information, Communication & Society, ten Oever, Niels, and Nanni Riccardo. Jan 2024

paper Infrastructural Insecurity: Geopolitics in the Standardization of Telecommunications Networks. Media International Australia, ten Oever, Niels, and Christoph Becker. https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X231225748. Jan 2024

report Shifting terrain: “Standards, Protocols, Ecosystem” — Report on a round-table discussion Maxigas and Alek Tarkowski, funded by the ford foundation and DIGI at new america, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10155807 november 2023. Nov 2023

book Eaten by the Internet, edited by Corinne Cath. Oct 2023

report Exploring the public interest in media infrastructures through the lenses of geopolitics, standards, and the environment. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10002322. Oct 2023

report Digital infrastructures and environmental justice: policies, practices, and  visions. https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2023i0.13522. Oct 2023

paper Website blocking in the European Union: Network interference from the perspective of Open Internet Policy and Internet, Vasilis Ververis, Lucas Lasota, Tatiana Ermakova, Benjamin Fabian. https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.367. Sep 2023

special issue branch magazine: issue #6 green screen, Katrin Fritsch, Fieke Jansen, Maya Richman, and Katherine Waters. Sep 2023

paper fieke jansen, merve gülmez, becky kazansky, harriet kingaby, claire fernandez, and jan tobias mühlberg. the climate crisis is a digital rights crisis: exploring the civil-society framing of two intersecting disasters. ninth workshop on computing within limits. Jul 2023

report building a relational infrastructure; the launch of the critical infrastructure lab, fieke jansen, niels ten oever, maxigas, et al. May 2023

report loud men talking loudly report on exclusionary cultures of internet governance, corinne cath, funded by the ford foundation. Apr 2023

report thinking infrastructurally about open source software thomas streinz, funded by the ford foundation. Apr 2023

report chapter fieke jansen. Article 37 Environment protection, internet infrastructure and the data economy, in Giannopoulou (ed) digital rights are charter rights. digital freedom fund, pp. 50-52. Apr 2023

paper ten oever, niels. 5g and the notion of network ideology, or: the limitations of sociotechnical imaginaries, telecommunications policy, elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.telpol.2022.102442. Oct 2022

paper ten oever, niels, corinne cath, mirja kühlewind, and colin perkins. report from the iab workshop on analyzing ietf data (aid) 2021. request for comments. internet engineering task force,  doi: 10.17487/rfc9307. Sep 2022

paper becker, christoph., ten oever, niels, and riccardo nanni. the standardisation of lawful interception technologies in the 3gpp: interrogating 5g and surveillance amid us-china competition, washington dc: tprc2022. Jul 2022

paper ten oever, niels, and stefania milan. the making of international communication standards: towards a theory of power in standardization in journal of standardisation 1. https://doi.org/10.18757/jos.2022.6205. Jun 2022

blog ten oever, niels. towards the multistakeholder imposition of internet sanctions. Mar 2022

paper maxigas and ten oever, niels. the people’s 5g laboratory: critical perspectives on media technologies. Nov 2021

report human rights are not a bug: upgrading governance for an equitable internet report about the governance of the internet infrastructure, funded by the ford foundation. Nov 2021

paper ten oever, niels. 5g and the notion of network ideology, or: the limitations of sociotechnical imaginaries in giganet annual symposium 2021 proceedings. katowice: giganet, internet governance forum. Nov 2021

paper dunajcsik, peter “maxigas,” and niels ten oever. geopolitics in the infrastructural ideologies of 5g aoir selected papers of internet research, aoir2021 https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2021i0.12163. Oct 2021

paper ten oever, niels. the quantum state of infrastructure reconfiguration in 5g in selected papers in internet research 2021. research from the annual conference of the association of internet researchers. aoir 2021. https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2021i0.12056. Oct 2021

paper ten oever, niels norm conflict in the governance of transnational and distributed infrastructures: the case of internet routing, globalizations, doi: (doi:10.1080/14747731.2021.1953221). Oct 2021

paper ten oever, niels “this is not how we imagined it”: technological affordances, economic drivers, and the internet architecture imaginary. new media & society. 2021;23(2):344-362. (doi:10.1177/1461444820929320). Oct 2021

software benthall, sebastian, nick doty, niels ten oever, and christoph becker. bigbang (version 0.4.0). python. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5243261. Sep 2021