“Our fight is for life”: report of research experience in a virtual environment about the performance of social movements in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic in Latin American countries

Abstract

This article aims to present an experience report on the research "Mapping the digital actions and initiatives of social movements of vulnerable populations to confront the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, Mexico and Ecuador (2020 - 2021)". Given the rise of social research on the internet, the study made use of virtual ethnography to search for the main initiatives digitally embraced by social movements of indigenous and non-indigenous populations in urban contexts in the three countries. The report discusses the process, results and products of this research, with emphasis on the strategic networks adopted by social movements according to their specificities.