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(Présentation). I'm going to talk about the notion of Places and forms of power. To introduce this notion I will give you several definitions. The notion of power generally implies a basic division between those who have and exercise power and those who have none or little of it. Power is the ability to control others, events or resource. Places can also be a country or a state. There are five sort of power: executive, legislative, judicial power or the power of the media or the power of Internet.

Are counter powers growing in influence ?

1. First we going to ask us self how new technologies have empowered citizens
2. Finally we will see the limits of citizens empowerment
New technologies allow counter power to grow

First, nowadays we can see a lot of news technologies like the mobile phone, Internet or social networks. The development of Internet is helping counter powers because thanks to Internet we can organize an event and share this with all people in the world without difficulties. Indeed in the text about the power of Google, we can see that Google can gathered informations at more than 30 countries. So with Google the informations are very quickly broadcast online. Before Internet and Google informations were share thanks to word of mouth and only a few person were informed. But now with Google a millions of person can get the informations. So this new technologies allow counter power to grow. With news technologies people can get organized rapidly

In fact we can see on a cartoon, a person who are arrested in Wall Street. He's a protesters oh the “Occupy Wall Street Movement”. The slogan of the protesters is “We are the 99%”, representing Americans who have almost nothing compared to the riches 1% who have everything. There are many in the street thanks to Internet, so the news technologies have a great power to help to gather many people in the street.

But there are limits

Whereas new technologies allow of counter power to grow, there are lot of danger with Internet, social networks and radio. Indeed we can see that the new technologies have limits in a text “Flash looting”. The media was used during the genocide to encourage people to massacre other people. So new technologies can give a sort of bad power.

Then even if there are a lot of manifestation like “Occupy wall street”, there is always the government who had more powers than other and cans stop manifestation. Indeed, on a cartoon we can see a man who are arrested during the manifestation in Wall Street. Moreover, some flash mobs are organized as we can see in the newspaper “courrier post online”, but there is always a security guard's observation.

To conclude, we can say that counter power are growing in influence in the world. Actually it's thanks to the news technologies, because with this, we can organized manifestation rapidly. So people have the power they are so much in the street but they are arrested so the government has always the power compared the rest f the people.