The Post-Socialist Internet E-Book

Migle Bareikyte

• Herausgeber: transcript Verlag
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Digitale Gesellschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

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.