The Post-Socialist Internet

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The Post-Socialist Internet is written by Migle Bareikyte and published by transcript Verlag. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3839459567 (ISBN 10) and 9783839459560 (ISBN 13).

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.