Slovenes online

Argentinian Slovenians online: representation and re-territorialized senses of Slovenianess among Facebook groups of Slovenians in Argentina The aim of this article is to present an anthropological inquiry about the uses of the social media Facebook in the different social memory and identity config...

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Autor: Molek, Nadia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS)
Repositorio:Albuquerque (Online)
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.ufms.br:article/7335
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.ufms.br/index.php/AlbRHis/article/view/7335
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:ICT
Slovenian migration
Argentina
identity processes
social memory
TIC
migración eslovena
procesos identitarios
memoria social
migração eslovena
processos identitarios
memória social
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Sumario:Argentinian Slovenians online: representation and re-territorialized senses of Slovenianess among Facebook groups of Slovenians in Argentina The aim of this article is to present an anthropological inquiry about the uses of the social media Facebook in the different social memory and identity configurations among the Slovenian descendants in Argentina. Facebook groups became a useful platform to gather Slovenian migrants and descendants of migrants from different migrations flows to Argentina in a context of globalisation and local association weakening. I explore which role the social media Facebook plays in identity and social memory processes and which representations, experiences and -memory/ideological- senses are produced and shared on the walls of the Facebook groups, finding that some offline community divisions and representations of the Slovenianess are still to be found in the online environment. I stress that Facebook groups, not only imply a communication tool, but also a virtual place that mediates the need of the actors to configure their self-identity and belonging to an imagined community linked to the land of their ancestors.