Niels ten Oever – Faculty SWING 2025

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Niels ten Oever

Niels is an assistant professor at the European Studies department and co-principal investigator with the critical infrastructure lab at the University of Amsterdam. Furthermore, he is a visiting professor with the Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas. His research focuses on how norms, values, and ideologies get inscribed, resisted, and subverted in communication infrastructures through their transnational governance.

Niels tries to understand how invisible infrastructures provide a socio-technical ordering to information societies and how this influences the distribution of wealth, power, and possibilities.