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Publications

Working Papers

ten Oever, Niels. Towards the Multistakeholder Imposition of Internet Sanctions (2022)

Maxigas and ten Oever, Niels. The People’s 5G Laboratory: Critical Perspectives on Media Technologies (2021)

Reports

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

Academic Publications

ten Oever, Niels. 2022. 5G and the notion of network ideology, or: the limitations of sociotechnical imaginaries, Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier. DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2022.102442

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, September 2022. DOI: 10.17487/RFC9307.

ten Oever, Niels, and Stefania Milan. “The Making of International Communication Standards: Towards a Theory of Power in Standardization.” Journal of Standardisation 1 (June 29, 2022). https://doi.org/10.18757/jos.2022.6205.

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

ten Oever, Niels. 2021. “5G and the Notion of Network Ideology, or: The Limitations of Sociotechnical Imaginaries.” In Giganet Annual Symposium 2021 Proceedings. Katowice: Giganet, Internet Governance Forum

Dunajcsik, Peter “Maxigas,” and Niels ten Oever. 2021. “Geopolitics in the Infrastructural Ideologies of 5G.” AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, AOIR2021 https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2021i0.12163.

ten Oever, Niels. 2021. “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.

ten Oever, Niels (2021) Norm conflict in the governance of transnational and distributed infrastructures: the case of Internet routing, Globalizations, DOI: (doi:10.1080/14747731.2021.1953221)

ten Oever, Niels (2021) “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)

Software

Benthall, Sebastian, Nick Doty, Niels ten Oever, and Christoph Becker. BigBang (version 0.4.0). Python, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5243261.