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Book SynopsisHow 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.
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments; List of Figures and Tables; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Introduction; Everyday Infrastructuring; Geopolitical Imaginaries; Critical Negotiations; Implications for Situating the Internet as Infrastructure; Bibliography.
