Publications

A selection of academic publications and media appearances related to IN-SIGHT.it:

Academic publications

Christoph Becker, Niels ten Oever & Riccardo Nanni (2024) Interrogating the standardisation of surveillance in 5G amid US–China competition, Information, Communication & Society in Information, Communication & Society. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2024.2302991
Li, Xue, Hughes, Anthony, Llugiqi, Majlinda, Polat, Fina, Groth, Paul, and Ekaputra, Fajar J. (2023) Knowledge-centric Prompt Composition for Knowledge Base Construction from Pre-trained Language Models KBC-LM’23: Knowledge Base Construction from Pre-trained Language Models workshop at ISWC 2023.
ten Oever, Niels (2023) “5G and the notion of network ideology, or: The limitations of sociotechnical imaginaries”. Telecommunication Policy, 47(5). DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2022.102442.
Li, Xue, Polat, Fina, and Groth, Paul. (2023) Do Instruction-tuned Large Language Models Help with Relation Extraction? KBC-LM’23: Knowledge Base Construction from Pre-trained Language Models workshop at ISWC 2023. [alternate link]
Cong, Tianji, Sun, Zhenjie, Groth, Paul, Jagadish, H., and Hulsebos, Madelon. (2023) Introducing the Observatory Library for End-to-End Table Embedding Inference NeurIPS 2023 Second Table Representation Learning Workshop, 2023.
ten Oever, Niels. (2022) “5G, Community Networks, Standardization, and the Human Rights to Science and Technological Self Determination”. In: Community Networks as Enablers of Human Rights, 49– 56. Eds. Luca Belli and Senka Hadzic. Official Outcome of the UN IGF Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: FGV Direito Rio. Book chapter.
Becker, Christoph, Niels ten Oever, and Riccardo Nanni. (2022) The Standardisation of Lawful Interception Technologies in the 3GPP: Interrogating 5G and Surveillance Amid US-China Competition TPRC 2022 conference, 2022. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4167105.
ten Oever, N., Cath, C., Kühlewind, M., and C. Perkins. (2022) “Report from the IAB Workshop on Analyzing IETF Data (AID) 2021”, RFC 9307, DOI 10.17487/RFC9307
ten Oever, Niels, and Stefania Milan. (2022) The Making of International Communication Standards: Towards a Theory of Power in Standardization Journal of Standardisation 1. TU Delft. DOI: (https://doi.org/10.18757/jos.2022.6205)
Li, Xue., Magliacane, Sara., and Groth, Paul. (2021) The Challenges of Cross-Document Coreference Resolution for Email in: Proceedings of the 11th on Knowledge Capture Conference 2021. DOI: (doi:10.1145/3460210.3493573)
ten Oever, Niels, and Milan, Stefania. (2021) ‘The Making of International Communication Standards’ in: Conference Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Standardisation and Innovation in Information Technology SIIT 2021
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)

Postition 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)

Media

Ukraine invasion: We should consider internet sanctions, says ICANN ex-CEO – Mention in article of researcher and initiative project contributed towards in The Register
Welke knop doet Rusland van het internet verdwijnen? – Mention and quote in article of research and initiative project contributed towards in NRC
Internet experts suggest ways to selectively block Russian military and propaganda sites – Mention in article of initiative project contributed towards in Washington Post
Experts: How to impose internet sanctions on Russia – Mention in article of initiative project contributed towards on AP News
Gezielte Internetsperren gegen Russland: Die Netz-Community will aktiv werden – Mention in article of initiative project contributed towards in Heise
What is Web3 and how will it change the way we use the internet? – Extended quotes in an article in The New Scientist
Email is an awful online ID that we use for almost everything. – Extended quote in an article in Vox’ RECODE
Internet als machtsmiddel – Interview in De Lichtkogel
Who owns the internet? – Extended quotes in an article in The Face magazine
What really went down when the internet went down – Extended quotes in article in Wired

Reports

Public values concerning digital technologies // Publieke waarden rondom digitale technologieën – Research report on a representative study of how Dutch people think about digital technologies and standardisation, and their own role in how these are created. February 2024.
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

Interviews

Increasing our control over the technology that shapes us / De technologie die ons vormt meer in eigen handen krijgen – Interview with NWO-MVI (the Dutch Research Council - Platform for Responsible Innovation)

Policy Documents

Contribution to Request for Comments by Dutch Telecoms Authority on 35 GHZ frequencies

Blogs

Walking the infrastructure walk and dancing the frequency dance – Blog for Global Digital Cultures
Human Rights are not a Bug – Blog on Ripe Labs

Workshops