When the micro-practices of activism fit in a WhatsApp message.

TARULLO, RAQUEL

COVID-19 from the Margins.Pandemic Invisibilities, Policies and Resistance in the Datafied Society

Institute of Network Cultures,

Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2020; p. 256 - 259

Circles of friends, members of sports clubs, parents associations and work colleagues are new actors that have comealong with the pandemic in Argentina to provide, in the emergency, food and clothing for thousands of families who livein poverty. These groups, that are neither social movements nor civic associations, use their WhatsApp contacts and thegroups they have on this social network to promote, by using distribution lists, their food drives to prepare meals theydeliver once a week.