Seats and forms of power BAC ORAL ANGLAIS

Seats and forms of power

The notion I’m going to introduce you is Seats and Forms of Power. We can say that power is the ability to control people. The notion of power implies a basic division between those who have an exercise power and those who have none or little of it. It has as many forms and seats as there are representations of a peaceful world. Indeed, there are several approaches to deal with this idea. Thus I choose to talk about the fact that media is put into the foreground in front of journalism and I’ll discuss its influence on citizen’s everyday life. How did the 5th power affect our lives?

Nowadays, people become more and more powerful thanks to different means mainly technological apparatus that let the globe be a small town. This is what we call the 5th power. There is a new form of journalism, that’s to say that today Internet is representing a new form of power. Actually, we read in class a text called “Is new media killing journalism?”  It stipulates the fact that new technologies are making it harder for authoritarian regimes to control the flow of information available on the web. Internet is becoming a source of information much more objective than the newspapers articles since people can download pictures, videos and that everyone had multitude of ways to receive from here and there the news.

A lot of successful people have worked hard to innovate things that can make life easier. One of the examples is a fond of Apple. Steve Jobs saw the power of technology to change the way we live. Thanks to his hard work he served the humanity something of great value that made the world more controllable than ever with tabs, smartphones and street cameras.

However one of the great things we are learning about new technologies is how they, in an exponential way empower citizens around the world. Clearly, the people who created the cell phones that put a photographic possibility into them were doing it because they thought consumers would like to take pictures of their wives, babies, sweethearts or whatever. It turns out to offer citizens an opportunity to record events that are happening and send it or even sell it to a media power. The emergence of these tools somehow allows anyone to denounce things that are not revealed by the media by publishing them on the Internet in order to raise people's awareness. Wikileaks has this cause as a purpose. It is a website that posts governmental messages that show violations of human rights by the governments, and it has been severely condemned by these governments.

So what it does mean is that every citizen is empowered potentially as a journalist, as a reporter to the world of events that surround him or her, and that’s an important thing.

Finally, technology has become an accessible weapon that has made the world more controllable by companies like Google that stores the entire known web but also by citizens like you and me.

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