The Post-Socialist Internet

How Labor, Geopolitics and Critique Produce the Internet in Lithuania
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-8376-5956-6
Verlag: transcript

Buch, Englisch, Band 43, 252 Seiten, Kartoniert, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 443 g

Reihe: Digitale Gesellschaft

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bareikyte, Migle

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation

Über Autor(innen)

Migle Bareikyte, 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.