PLACES AND FORMS OF POWER

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

Resource summary

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