MIGLĖ BAREIKYTĖ
assistant professor
@ European University Viadrina
The Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences
European New School of Digital Studies
Drop me a line:
bareikyte@europa-uni.de
assistant professor
@ European University Viadrina
The Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences
European New School of Digital Studies
Drop me a line:
bareikyte@europa-uni.de
RESEARCH INTERESTS
︎︎︎Digital war sensing and witnessing
︎︎︎Algorithmic accountability in platform economies
︎︎︎Ethnographic and open-ended approaches, cooperative research, qualitative digital methods
PROJECTS (selection)
In progress:
Video essay: Images and Objects of Russia’s war against Ukraine (together with Natasha Klimenko, FU Berlin) - premiere @ Agents of Concern opening evening in November 2024 in Hasselt (BE)
Algorithmic accountability in platform economies: empirical research in Vilnius and Berlin
Book: Images and Objects of Russia’s war against Ukraine, Forum Transregionale Studien (together with Natasha Klimenko and Viktoria Sereda), publication date: 2024
Navigationen issue: Delivery/Liefern (together with Julia Bee, Uni Siegen), publication date: 2024
Research on the Telegram Archive of the Center for Urban History of Central Eastern Europe in Lviv (together with Taras Nazaruk, Center for Urban History Lviv, Yarden Skop, Uni Siegen, Mykola Makhortykh, Uni Bern, Alexander Martin, Uni Siegen)
Empirical research on communicative Telegram practices and digital witnessing (together with Mykola Makhortykh, Uni Bern)
Finished (selection):
Special feature (2022): “Memory under Fire: Data Practices during Russia’s War in Ukraine” (Sociologica) together with Yarden Skop
Paper (2022): “Archiving the Present. Critical Data Practices during Russia‘s War in Ukraine” (Sociologica) together with Yarden Skop.
Book (2022): The Post-Socialist Internet: How Labor, Geopolitics and Critique Produce the Internet in Lithuania (Transcript Verlag)
Paper (2021): Situating the Internet as Infrastructure: the Case of Post-socialist Lithuania (Internet Histories)
Paper (2018): “Future-Past Infrastructures of Poland and Lithuania” (Obieg) together with Viktorija Rusinaitė
︎︎︎Digital war sensing and witnessing
︎︎︎Algorithmic accountability in platform economies
︎︎︎Ethnographic and open-ended approaches, cooperative research, qualitative digital methods
PROJECTS (selection)
In progress:
Video essay: Images and Objects of Russia’s war against Ukraine (together with Natasha Klimenko, FU Berlin) - premiere @ Agents of Concern opening evening in November 2024 in Hasselt (BE)
Algorithmic accountability in platform economies: empirical research in Vilnius and Berlin
Book: Images and Objects of Russia’s war against Ukraine, Forum Transregionale Studien (together with Natasha Klimenko and Viktoria Sereda), publication date: 2024
Navigationen issue: Delivery/Liefern (together with Julia Bee, Uni Siegen), publication date: 2024
Research on the Telegram Archive of the Center for Urban History of Central Eastern Europe in Lviv (together with Taras Nazaruk, Center for Urban History Lviv, Yarden Skop, Uni Siegen, Mykola Makhortykh, Uni Bern, Alexander Martin, Uni Siegen)
Empirical research on communicative Telegram practices and digital witnessing (together with Mykola Makhortykh, Uni Bern)
Finished (selection):
Special feature (2022): “Memory under Fire: Data Practices during Russia’s War in Ukraine” (Sociologica) together with Yarden Skop
Paper (2022): “Archiving the Present. Critical Data Practices during Russia‘s War in Ukraine” (Sociologica) together with Yarden Skop.
Book (2022): The Post-Socialist Internet: How Labor, Geopolitics and Critique Produce the Internet in Lithuania (Transcript Verlag)
Paper (2021): Situating the Internet as Infrastructure: the Case of Post-socialist Lithuania (Internet Histories)
Paper (2018): “Future-Past Infrastructures of Poland and Lithuania” (Obieg) together with Viktorija Rusinaitė
TALKS (selection)
2023︎︎︎Talk and Video Essay Images and Objects of Russia’s war against Ukraine at the exhibition and conference “Agents of Concern” in Hasselt, together with Natasha Klimenko
2023︎︎︎Talk “Digitally witnessable war: Unfolding of Telegram communication in the context of the Russian war in Ukraine”, at workshop Digital Wars, University of Flensburg, together with Mykola Makhortykh
2023︎︎︎Talk “Future Work of Software Developers with AI” at STS Italia in Bologna
2023︎︎︎Talk “A Short History of Digital Publics at War” at the Fernuni Hagen
2022︎︎︎Talk “Exploiting your AI?” at EASST Madrid, together with Marcus Burkhadt and Shadan Sadeghian
2022︎︎︎Talk “Platform Accountability Demands in Conversation with Tilly's 'Social Movements'” at the EHU DAAD Summer School “The Last European Dictatorship and a Platformization Frontier? Platforms and Infrastructures of Political Power in Belarus in the 2020s” in Vilnius
2022︎︎︎Co-organisation of an online data sprint “Russia’s war in Ukraine: Interdisciplinary data sprint with Telegram Archives” together with Taras Nazaruk and Yarden Skop
2022︎︎︎Co-organisation of online-event series “Memory under Fire” on data practices during Russia’s war in Ukraine with media and cultural scientists from Ukraine and beyond, together with Yarden Skop
2021︎︎︎Talk “Fieldwork Interviews for Internet History” at the “Interviewing in Practice and Theory” workshop, University of Siegen in Siegen
2021︎︎︎Talk “Maintenance of the Media Technology” at the “Fantasies of Seamless
Interoperability” series of talks organised by Architektūros Fondas in Vilnius
2019︎︎︎Discussion participant at “News from Elsewhere” discussion on the cultural politics in Poland and Lithuania at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius
2019︎︎︎Talk “Internet as Infrastructure in Lithuania” at the “Decoding Europe: Technological Pasts in the Digital Age” conference at the University of Luxembourg in Luxembourg
2019︎︎︎Talk “In-between State Becoming – the Politics of Multiplicity Today” at MO. museum in Vilnius (together with V.Rusinaitė)
2019︎︎︎Roundtable discussion in the context of the exhibition “Waiting for Another Coming” and the latest issue of cultural magazine “Obieg” at the Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw
2018︎︎︎Talk “Internet as Infrastructure Development in Lithuania” at the EASST Conference in Lancaster
2018︎︎︎Co-organisation of the international workshop on media politics Post-X Politics at the Leuphana University Lüneburg, together with Nelly Yaa Pinkrah and Clemens Apprich
2016︎︎︎Co-presentation of “CivicBudget” project at the Participatory Budget conference @ Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, Boston
2013︎︎︎ Digital political communication effects for political decision making processes based on fieldwork in Sweden, Iceland, Germany, UK in the framework of “Studienkolleg zu Berlin” program @ Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin
2023︎︎︎Talk and Video Essay Images and Objects of Russia’s war against Ukraine at the exhibition and conference “Agents of Concern” in Hasselt, together with Natasha Klimenko
2023︎︎︎Talk “Digitally witnessable war: Unfolding of Telegram communication in the context of the Russian war in Ukraine”, at workshop Digital Wars, University of Flensburg, together with Mykola Makhortykh
2023︎︎︎Talk “Future Work of Software Developers with AI” at STS Italia in Bologna
2023︎︎︎Talk “A Short History of Digital Publics at War” at the Fernuni Hagen
2022︎︎︎Talk “Exploiting your AI?” at EASST Madrid, together with Marcus Burkhadt and Shadan Sadeghian
2022︎︎︎Talk “Platform Accountability Demands in Conversation with Tilly's 'Social Movements'” at the EHU DAAD Summer School “The Last European Dictatorship and a Platformization Frontier? Platforms and Infrastructures of Political Power in Belarus in the 2020s” in Vilnius
2022︎︎︎Co-organisation of an online data sprint “Russia’s war in Ukraine: Interdisciplinary data sprint with Telegram Archives” together with Taras Nazaruk and Yarden Skop
2022︎︎︎Co-organisation of online-event series “Memory under Fire” on data practices during Russia’s war in Ukraine with media and cultural scientists from Ukraine and beyond, together with Yarden Skop
2021︎︎︎Talk “Fieldwork Interviews for Internet History” at the “Interviewing in Practice and Theory” workshop, University of Siegen in Siegen
2021︎︎︎Talk “Maintenance of the Media Technology” at the “Fantasies of Seamless
Interoperability” series of talks organised by Architektūros Fondas in Vilnius
2019︎︎︎Discussion participant at “News from Elsewhere” discussion on the cultural politics in Poland and Lithuania at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius
2019︎︎︎Talk “Internet as Infrastructure in Lithuania” at the “Decoding Europe: Technological Pasts in the Digital Age” conference at the University of Luxembourg in Luxembourg
2019︎︎︎Talk “In-between State Becoming – the Politics of Multiplicity Today” at MO. museum in Vilnius (together with V.Rusinaitė)
2019︎︎︎Roundtable discussion in the context of the exhibition “Waiting for Another Coming” and the latest issue of cultural magazine “Obieg” at the Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw
2018︎︎︎Talk “Internet as Infrastructure Development in Lithuania” at the EASST Conference in Lancaster
2018︎︎︎Co-organisation of the international workshop on media politics Post-X Politics at the Leuphana University Lüneburg, together with Nelly Yaa Pinkrah and Clemens Apprich
2016︎︎︎Co-presentation of “CivicBudget” project at the Participatory Budget conference @ Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, Boston
2013︎︎︎ Digital political communication effects for political decision making processes based on fieldwork in Sweden, Iceland, Germany, UK in the framework of “Studienkolleg zu Berlin” program @ Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin
LECTURES (selection)
WS 23/24: Geopolitical Imaginaries and Digital Media (EUV)
WS 23/24: Digitalisation and Disinformation (EUV)
WS 22/23: Introduction to Media Studies (Uni Siegen, in German)
WS 22/23: Geopolitcs and Media (Uni Siegen, in German)
SoSe 22: AI History, conflicts, phenomena (Uni Siegen, in German)
WS 21/22: Digital media ethnography (Uni Siegen, in German)
WS 21/22: Situating the Internet (Uni Siegen, in German)
SoSe 21: Obscure Algorithms? Investigating algorithmic accountability and geopolitics (Uni Siegen, in German)
SoSe 21: Digital Methods project: algorithmic bias (Uni Siegen, in German, together with J. Preuß)
WS 20/21: Critical Approaches to Digital Media Economies (FU Berlin, together with I Dachwitz)
WS 20/21: Media Cultures (Leuphana University & Hamburg Media School)
WS 17/18: Communicate, Create, Share: Exploring Economies of Digital Media (Leuphana University & Hamburg Media School, together w I. Dachwitz)
WS 23/24: Geopolitical Imaginaries and Digital Media (EUV)
WS 23/24: Digitalisation and Disinformation (EUV)
WS 22/23: Introduction to Media Studies (Uni Siegen, in German)
WS 22/23: Geopolitcs and Media (Uni Siegen, in German)
SoSe 22: AI History, conflicts, phenomena (Uni Siegen, in German)
WS 21/22: Digital media ethnography (Uni Siegen, in German)
WS 21/22: Situating the Internet (Uni Siegen, in German)
SoSe 21: Obscure Algorithms? Investigating algorithmic accountability and geopolitics (Uni Siegen, in German)
SoSe 21: Digital Methods project: algorithmic bias (Uni Siegen, in German, together with J. Preuß)
WS 20/21: Critical Approaches to Digital Media Economies (FU Berlin, together with I Dachwitz)
WS 20/21: Media Cultures (Leuphana University & Hamburg Media School)
WS 17/18: Communicate, Create, Share: Exploring Economies of Digital Media (Leuphana University & Hamburg Media School, together w I. Dachwitz)
© MB, 2023