MEDIA STUDIES

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... While writing his PhD ‘Wired Norms: Inscription, resistance, and subversion in the governance of the Internet infrastructure', which was awarded an honorary mention by the Association of Internet Researchers, Niels was affiliated with the DATACTIVE Research Group at the Media Studies and Political Science department at the University of Amsterdam. After that he was postdoctoral researcher at Texas A&M University and a postdoctoral researcher with the ‘Making the hidden visible: Co-designing for public values in standards-making and governance'-project at the Media Studies department at the University of Amsterdam. He was a non-resident fellow with the Center for Democracy and Technology in the 2021-2023 cohort, affiliated faculty with the Digital Democracy Institute at the Simon Fraser..