Slovenes online

• Autor(a) principal: Molek, Nadia
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Albuquerque (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufms.br/index.php/AlbRHis/article/view/7335
• topic: ICT; Slovenian migration; Argentina; identity processes; social memory; TIC; migración eslovena; Argentina; procesos identitarios; memoria social; TIC; migração eslovena; Argentina; processos identitarios; memória social

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.