The street protests that occurred intensively in June 2013 in Brazil can be considered as a socio-communicative phenomenon to be observed in a detached but reflexive manner. One reading of the phenomenon concerns a possible crisis in representative democracy, which is the premise that defined this article. To better establish this connection, we gathered bibliographies, statements, reviews, interviews, not only about the protests, but also concerning the platforms on which they were generated – the social media, space of a new culture, both in terms of technology and as a field of ideological and political renewal.