Social networks and access to sources in times of COVID-19: the case of conscript soldiers mobilized during the Beagle conflict between Argentina and Chile 1977-1985

For more than a decade, digital media and social networks have been gaining ground within the field of historians. Particularly, for those investigations that use tools from oral history, the use of social networks can lead to a new way of searching for sources. Thus, for example, if we are looking...

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Autor principal: Di Renzo, Cristian Andrés
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Asociación de Historia Oral de la República Argentina 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/testimonios/article/view/39449
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Sumario:For more than a decade, digital media and social networks have been gaining ground within the field of historians. Particularly, for those investigations that use tools from oral history, the use of social networks can lead to a new way of searching for sources. Thus, for example, if we are looking for testimonies about events not too far away in time, Facebook, Twitter or Instagram can give us clues about the location of the people we want to interview or open a channel of communication and exchange between the interviewer and the interviewee. The objective of this article is to share our experience on the search and discovery of new testimonies hostilities in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, belonging to the conscript soldiers mobilized on the occasion of the Beagle Conflict between Argentina and Chile in the year 1978, at which time both countries were ready for the start of. Likewise, we intend to test the hypothesis that, in the experiences associated with the process of military mobilization in the face of an armed confrontation, different forms of nationalism/s are manifested and expressed.