Post-Socialist Internet

How Labor, Geopolitics and Critique Produce the Internet in Lithuania

AvMiglė Bareikytė

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-02-14
Mått:16 x 24 x 29 mm
Vikt:444 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Digital Society
Antal sidor:252
Förlag:Transcript Verlag
ISBN:9783837659566

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Mer om författaren

Migle Bareikyte was born in 1987, works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Media Studies at Universität Siegen. The media scholar did her doctorate at the Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 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.

Recensioner i media

O-Ton: »Archiving the Present. Critical Data Practices During Russias War in Ukraine« - Miglè Bareikyte on Sociologica, 16/2 (2022).

Innehållsförteckning

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.