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The Post-Socialist Internet: How Labor, Geopolitics and Critique Produce the Internet in Lithuania
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Abstract 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 pr... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
society; politics; digital media; Internet; sociology of technology; Lithuania
Classification
Interactive, electronic Media
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Free Keywords
Sociology of Media; Media Studies
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
250 p.
Series
Digital Society, 43
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839459560
ISSN
2702-8860
ISBN
978-3-8394-5956-0
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed