Media Studies; Independent journalism; Internet; Adolescents; Media participation; Social practices.
Exponential phenomenon whose outbreak, in various parts of the world, is showned up as alternatives to the journalistic industry's decline (SALAVERRÍA, 2019), independent journalism tries to establish itself in Brazil as spaces of democratic practices and counter-hegemonic discourses through plurals narratives. In all regions of the country, online platforms seek to recover lost credibility (LACERDA, 2016) and to offer society more accurate and quality content. However, these websites, so conducive to experimentation and new ways of doing, tend to follow the rule of an adultized media, with a still superficial and often nonexistent look at the juvenile audience. From the methods of systematic observation and content analysis, this research focuses on the production of five reference platforms in the Brazilian independent media: Agência Pública; Ground Zero Content; We, Women of the Periphery; AzMina Magazine and Agência Jovem de Notícias. In the analytical clipping of a year, we investigate how teenagers are scheduled by Brazilian independent journalism. The results show us how scarce and superficial is the presence of younger people in the narratives of independent organizations, perpetuating that relational abyss between journalists and teenagers so visible in the vehicles of the so-called traditional media. It is noteworthy that, despite guidelines aligned with human rights and the interests of populations in social vulnerability, independent journalistic initiatives continue to neglect the participation of adolescents as sources of information and make this age group invisible as subjects of law and speech, with punctual exceptions.