Youth in June’s Journey in Alagoas: a study from journalistic material

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Sara Argemary Matias Maciel
Marcos Ribeiro Mesquita

Abstract

This work had as objective to understand the multiple readings about youth who starred the manifestations
known as June’s Journey, occurred in a lot of brazilian cities in 2013, focusing its dynamics in the
state of Alagoas, from analysis of local media materials. Therefore, 42 news and articles which reported
the manifestations in Alagoas were selected and analyzed to understand the conceptions of youth and
its connection with the politics, the understanding about the mobilizations and the strategy of politic
fight of manifestations which passed by the media, all this to know how these events were reported and
its repercussions. The results allowed to capture three axis of analysis (Youth and politic, Dynamics
of mobilizations and Claims) which were important to understand that the representation of young in
its interface with politics was poorly discussed and we point to the need of attend to the political news
brought the streets.

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