The influence of journalistic chronicles on the constitution of urban identity

Abstract

This paper presents the results of an investigation that sought to determine to what extent the reading of urban chronicles influence the formation of urban identity. For this, it presents a conceptualization of urban identity from environmental psychology and analyzes the qualities of the urban chronicle describing places and dynamics that occurred in the city. On the other hand, an experimental exercise was carried out with a group of volunteers from the city of Bogotá, taking as an experimental variable the reading of a chronicle that narrates the daily life of a place in this city, applying a before and after enter the variable. The research was able to show that the reading of the proposed chronicle extended the information that the participants had about the place, allowing them to broaden their relationship with space and to account for the identity abstraction they maintain with it. Among other things, this result is explained by the fact that the urban chronicle makes it possible to problematize the view and to denaturalize the representations that the individual has over the place.