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Record Nr.

UNINA9910831595703321

Autore

Bareikytė Miglė <1987->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , 2022

ISBN

3-8394-5956-7

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 pages)

Collana

Digitale Gesellschaft ; 43.

Disciplina

015.41053

Soggetti

Internet access - Lithuania

Mass media - Lithuania

Political science - Lithuania

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.