The Post-Socialist Internet How Labor, Geopolitics and Critique Produce the Internet in Lithuania Migle Bareikyte

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Bareikyte, Migle Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Deutschland, Author.

Contributor:

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Series:

Digitale Gesellschaft

Digitale Gesellschaft 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet; Society; Politics; Sociology of Media; Sociology of Technology; Digital Media; Media Studies;.

Local Subjects:

Internet; Society; Politics; Sociology of Media; Sociology of Technology; Digital Media; Media Studies;.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2022

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Migle Bareikyte, born in 1987, works as a postdoctoral researcher for the Team for Digital Media & Methods at Universität Siegen. She received her PhD from Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, where she was a member of the 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.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Preface and Acknowledgments 7 List of Figures and Tables 11 Abbreviations and Acronyms 13 1. Introduction 17 2. Everyday Infrastructuring 71 3. Geopolitical Imaginaries 133 4. Critical Negotiations 197 5. Implications for Situating the Internet as Infrastructure: 223 Bibliography 231

Notes:

Doctoral Thesis Leuphana Universität Lüneburg 2020

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Other Format:

Print version: Bareikyte, Migle The Post-Socialist Internet

ISBN:

3-8394-5956-7

OCLC:

1293251242