The thirst for power in the online world and beyond!

The thirst for power in the online world and beyond!

Power everyone thinks that they have a ounce of power over the world that they occupy whether it be online or real,others and themselves yet this is just an illusion. There is always someone or something that will always have more or less power than you do, from the lecture and the reading of Sherry Turkels Life on the screen. It will come forth that the human thirst for power if never ending always wanting more but whom are the ones with the real power?

Power comes in many different forms and has many uses an meanings to those who have that power and the ones being controlled by the powerful, in the subheadings of the over arching umbrella that is power.This causes different out comes shifts of power within different types of powers that we are involved in everyday e.g your parents have more power than you ,but their boss has even more power over them.Lecture slides 3,9 and 11 from week 2 are examples of  types of power: democratic, Corporate and Totalitarian are just some of the powers that are used either by the ones in power or the ones having it pointed towards them. Reinforcing the factor that power in itself is not a one way defined word but a array of sources aligning with the situation that the power is being opposed to.

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It has been found with our ever growing online world that the self power of how accounts look who sees what we are doing, what we choose to wright about ourselves an others that have let us see what they are doing and the way we use the online networks power to get what we want. In Sherry Turkel reading it is described as Social power. People who usually think of the world in materialist terms play with the idea that the somehow immaterial world of computer networks has created a new space for power without traditional forms of ownership (Turkel, 1995). Displaying the different forms that power can take were the user’s power is taken away from them with monitors and advertisements and spy on us without the realization that it is even happening sucking us in the online world has become all-consuming as Turkels speaks in a Ted talk about how the rise of tech has made us expect less from each other giving power to the network rather than the person.

There will always be a thirst for power within ourselves, the society we live in, the networks that we immerse ourselves in.The idea that power is a one universal thing, that you either have it or as something that is placed upon you from another is a illusion with in itself .Power changes from the networks, social groups, places that we live in always wanting more power than the person above or below us as a way of alluding ourselves that having more power to do as we wish is more beneficial. All that it is an unquestionable thirst. 

Reference list:

Kuttainen, V. (2017). Power. BA1002 Lecture (p. 3,9,11). Townsville: Victoria Kuttainen.  (Lecture).

Rebel Circus. (2017). This Is Your Brain On Power, According To Science.   http://www.rebelcircus.com/blog/this-is-your-brain-on-power-according-to-science/ 

Turkle, S. (1995). Life on the screen: Identity in the age of the internet. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks.  (Weekly Reading).

Turkle,S.(speaker).(2012, February). Connected, but alone? Retrieved from    https://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together (hyperlink)