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

How is the Internet used as an infrastructure for development 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 exploratio...

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Main Author: Bareikyte, Migle
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld transcript Verlag [2022]©2022, 2022
Series:Digitale Gesellschaft
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:How is the Internet used as an infrastructure for development 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
Physical Description:252 p.
ISBN:3839459567