PLACES AND FORMS OF POWER

PLACES AND FORMS OF POWER

1. Real or virtual space delimitated by borders

   • Family
   • Internet
   • Society
   • School

2. Ability to influence the behavior of people. Several forms of power can be applied to places

   • Parental pressure on children's choices
     • Narrow-minded
       • Billy's father's stereotypes
     • Have a good future, a better social background
       • Michael's parents worked hard so he could get that
         • So his father doesn't want him to be a violonist while he could go to the university
     • Children try to resist
   • Genetics (fiction: possibility?)
     • Bokanovsky's process: produce identical human beings in mass
     • Dr Crowe's new strain of diseases
       • Make big money
       • Be the most powerful
   • Google's data bank
   • Counterpowers
     • Media: the 4th power
       • Information
       • Denounce
     • Networking: the 5th power
       • Behavior: more childish
       • Almost instantaneous
         • Power of free speech
         • Get power back into people's hands
         • Very easy to do
       • Dangers with social networks
         • Cyberbullying
         • Hack the accounts
   • Teachers' influence
     • Mr Cobb thinks that Michael can succeed at the university