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

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.

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