
The Post-Socialist Internet
How Labor, Geopolitics and Critique Produce the Internet in Lithuania
Migle Bareikyte(Author)
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1st Edition
Published on 14. February 2022
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Paperback/Softback
252 pages
978-3-8376-5956-6 (ISBN)
Description
How is the Internet produced as an infrastructure in post-socialist Lithuania? Migle Bareikyte contributes to the growing field of STS and media studies with a distinct focus on Eastern Europe. She situates the Internet development in Lithuania's telecom industry with the exploration of its labor practices, geopolitical imaginaries, and critical negotiations from a bottom-up perspective. Bareikyte further explores how fieldwork-based research can foster new theorizations of media infrastructures. Finally, she argues for a situated investigation of new places and actors beyond the United States and Western Europe-such as post-socialist regions-in order to explore the diversity of media infrastructures.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bielefeld
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Klappenbroschur
Illustrations
10
10 s/w Abbildungen
Klebebindung, 11 SW-Abbildungen
Dimensions
Height: 24 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Weight
443 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8376-5956-6 (9783837659566)
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Migle Bareikyte
The Post-Socialist Internet
How Labor, Geopolitics and Critique Produce the Internet in Lithuania
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Migle Bareikyte was born in 1987, works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Media Studies at Universitaet Siegen. The media scholar did her doctorate at the Leuphana Universitaet Lueneburg, where she was a member of DFG Research Training Group Cultures of Critique and a Fellow of the Center for Digital Cultures (CDC). Her research focuses on media development in Europe with the special focus on situated research methods and media politics.
Content
Preface and Acknowledgments; List of Figures and Tables; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Introduction; Everyday Infrastructuring; Geopolitical Imaginaries; Critical Negotiations; Implications for Situating the Internet as Infrastructure; Bibliography.