Seats and forms of power

Seats and forms of power:

I’m going to talk about the notion of seats and forms of power. First of all I would like to give a definition of power. Power is the ability to control others and to make things happen despite obstacles, resistance, or opposition. It can be exerted by many ways, non violent or violent, by a persons, groups or governments. This, of course, leads to conflicts between those who have power and those who don’t, that we can call “counter power”.  In this case we can say that new technologies have the potential to accelerate a country's development. Besides, our problematic is how new technologies have empowered citizens?

First of all, it is impossible to talk about empowering people without talking about the fourth power, which is the power of the press. Actually a lot of tools are easily available to citizens. Devices help people to access easily to information and to be interconnected with the entire world. Steve Jobs was considered as god of new technologies and thanks to his innovation he changed all the world of technologies. Steve Jobs has marked the world when the IPhone appeared and also the Ipad. As the document « Empowered citizens » shows us, the woman is taking a picture with the Ipad while the policemen were sculling down the street. However, one question arises: Why did manufactories put a photographic possibility into cell phones? Firstly, to record dramatic events, secondly to propagate information rapidly and at last, to record events that are happening as they occur. Moreover Google have also an important place in the world of technologies. Google was created by two students and they devised a new internet search engine capable of providing most of the information available worldwide to anyone with internet access. This company generates profit primarily from advertising and she is so popular that its name has become a verb meaning. Google is one of the internet’s long-term success stories.

Besides, social networks play an important role in the dissemination of the information. Social network means an online community of people with a common interest who use a Web site or other technologies to communicate with each other and share information, resources. 

This social networks help people in order to get organized rapidly for example « the Occupy Wall Street» and also «the Arab spring». The Occupy Wall Street movement is a protest movement that began on September 2011 in New york City’s wall street financial district, under the slogan "we are the 99%" which refers to the socio-economic inequalities between the wealthiest 1% and the rest of the American population

Also social network like Facebook and Twitter had played an important role while the Arab spring, they served to mobilize and inform all people in the world about what happened in this countries in an immediate manner. How? By using their smartphone. This engine and this social network helped also people to stir their anger and denounce the system.

There is also WikiLeaks, which is considered as an international online nonprofit media-organization founded by the Australian activist Julian Assange that has a huge number of classified, uncensored and highly sensitive documents from various anonymous new sources. It reveals all the secrets, all the truths, even if it is against the law.

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