Participatory journalism, times lines and memory

Abstract

Participatory journalism is a production methodology based on the participation of the communities affected by the topics reported. It is a way of socializing the narrative voice and constructing accounts of the past, which are the result of a social dialogue around the marks left in the communities by the processes of political violence and human rights violations. This methodology was implemented in El Carmen de Viboral, a municipality in the eastern part of the department of Antioquia, in the Colombian Andean region, and resulted in a timeline that compiled facts of violence and resistance experienced by the population living in the municipality. This production process provides a conceptual reflection on the possibilities offered by participatory journalism and timelines to generate memory about a violent past. This article presents some of these reflections.