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Places and form of power

Publié le 27/03/2016

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  In politics and social science, power is the ability to influence people's behaviour. In order to live together members of a community accept rules, regulations, laws. This helps to create social cohesion but can also lead to conflicts and tensions. Even when authority seems absolute, there are always counter-powers which question it, aim at limiting its excesses and resist it. Power may also be exercised in a less obvious way. That’s why in the context of our English class, we have focused on the role of the press and we have...

« information through hacking and phone tapping around he world.

Indeed, in this source, the author underlines the unreliable basis on which you may be spied on by.

For instance, he mentions the fact that a neighbor might denounce you on flimsy arguments, which will lead to your being investigated by the NSA.

Even though the NSA doesn't specifically rely to the Press, it reminds us of what happened to the newspaper News of the World. Indeed, its editor Rupert Murdoch tapped the phone lines of many celebrities and victims in order to get a scoop and publish it sensationally in his tabloid.     . »

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