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

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Everyday Infrastructuring -- 3. Geopolitical Imaginaries -- 4. Critical Negotiations -- 5. Implications for Situating the Internet as Infrastructure: -- Bibliography

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