Collected Item: “How Families Interact During Covid-19”
Give your story a title.
How Families Interact During Covid-19
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
Photograph I took this photo on my phone.
Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.
This photo is of my family during one of our zoom meetings. My family lives in Italy and so this is the only way for my family to stay connected during the pandemic. We were planning to visit them in Italy during the summer, but we were unable to due to COVID. This photo demonstrates something significant about my generation under COVID because technology has allowed us to stay connected through the pandemic. A video call was a wonderful experience for the older members of my family because they were only able to send letters when they were younger and talk on the phone. Even though we are in the middle of a pandemic technology has truly allowed my generation to remain connected with our family and friends. As described in our reading “What do archivists keep or not” this is an example of a primary source because it is “tied to particular people doing particular things at [a] particular time and place” (Thompson, 3).
Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?
#HST241, #CovidMiniCollection, #Suffolk, #family, #stayconnected, #zoom, #technology
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Nicolina Messore
Give this story a date.
2020-04-12