Wikileaks

[Girodo45]

Bonjour,

 

J'ai un travail à rendre pour la rentrée qui porte sur cet article.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/nov/29/the-revolution-will-be-digitised

 

Je dois faire:

1/ Un résumé de l'article

2/ Expliquer l'expression " New Information Enlightenment"

 

J'ai fait un travail que je vous expose. Simplement je pense avoir fait des fautes et surtout je sèche un peu pour la question n°2. Auriez vous des petites idées?

 

Mon travail:

In 2010, Wikileaks and other news organisations published classified military documents related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan captured by Bradley Manning. The article throws into relief the fact that surveillance and whistleblowing are ones of the biggest issues in world today.

The article was published on 29 November 2010 by Heather Brooke (who is a journalist whose investigative journalism against the British Parliament for disclosure of MPs’ expenses was the catalyst of the expenses scandal of 2009).. It is taken from The Guardian, a left- wing daily paper which currently identifies with social liberalism. In 2013 it revealed the existence of the American PRISM surveillance program after it was leaked to a paper by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. In the article the journalist clearly praises internet leaks which embody a kind of counterpower. This is the reason why politicians always take a dim view of internet leaks: internet activists are able to reveal scandals. This is also an opportunity to disrupt the class system and to build a new democracy. Indeed, politicians tend to see themselves as the ones who know. As a consequence, they are the only ones who can make decisions (see the metaphor in the text, politicians are our parents). Internet leaks can bring us knowledge.

Eventually we can say the journalist highlights a paradoxe : leaks are not the main issue, it indicates a bigger problem in our society : politicians maintain a gap beween what people need to know and what they actually know. The journalist ends up asking a question : will the digitised revolution lead us to a New Information Enlightment or to a new totalitarianism?

 

 

 

The expression «New Information Enlightenment» first refers to a european intellectual movement or a philosophical movement (in french, Le siècle des Lumières) of the 18^th century marked by a rejection of traditional social, religious and political ideas and an emphasis on rationalism. Many people began to proclaim the importance of science and reason rather than religion and tradition. The article seems to demonstrate history repeats itself: except that nowadays everyone is likely to become a philosopher because everybody needs to be enlightened.

Especially the expression refers to internet leaks whick can make people able to access to secret informations.

Advantages :

• People are enlightened, they can become the ones who know.

• They can establish a counterpower and establish a new democracy. People can become the new big Brothers by keeping an eye on politics. Democracy : form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. People are be allowed to overthrow the governement if not legitimate. See neologism (sousveillance)

• Internet leaks as a deterrent, can prevent politicians from lying...

 

 

Drawbacks :

 

I don't know exactly but :

 

It seems the article come to confuse information with knowledge. But there is a gap: we live in a world of informations, (a host of information? Fake news …). It's not that easy to distinguish between the true and the false informations and to turn information in knowledge. Can lead to a new class system = those who are able to form there own opinions, who are able to understand the whys and wherefores...

 

Merci par avance

 

[Jean B]

Bonjour,

In 2010, Wikileaks and other news organisations published classified military documents related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan captured by Bradley Manning. The article throws into relief underlines/stresses the fact that surveillance and whistle blowers are ones of the biggest issues in the world today.

The article was published on 29 November 2010 by Heather Brooke (who is a journalist whose investigative journalism against the British Parliament for disclosure of MPs’ expenses was the catalyst of the expenses scandal of 2009). It is taken from The Guardian, a left- wing daily paper which currently identifies with social liberalism. In 2013 it revealed the existence of the American PRISM surveillance program after it was leaked to a paper by NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden. In the article the journalist clearly praises internet leaks which embody a kind of counterpower. This is the reason why politicians always take a dim view of internet leaks: internet activists are able to reveal scandals. This is also an opportunity to disrupt the class system and to build a new democracy. Indeed, politicians tend to see themselves as the ones who know. As a consequence, they are the only ones who can make decisions (see the metaphor in the text, politicians are our parents). Internet leaks can bring us knowledge.

Eventually we can say the journalist highlights a paradox: leaks are not the main issue, they indicate a bigger problem in our society: politicians maintain a gap beween what people need to know and what they actually know. The journalist ends up asking a question: will the digitised revolution lead us to a New Information Enlightment or to a new totalitarianism?

The expression «New Information Enlightenment» first refers to a European intellectual movement or a philosophical movement (in French, Le siècle des Lumières) of the 18^th century marked by a rejection of traditional social, religious and political ideas and an emphasis on rationalism. Many people began to proclaim the importance of science and reason rather than religion and tradition. The article seems to demonstrate history repeats itself: except that nowadays everyone is likely to become a philosopher because everybody needs to be enlightened.

Especially the expression refers to internet leaks whick can enable people to access secret informations.

Advantages :

• People are enlightened, they can become the ones who know.

• They can establish a counterpower and establish a new democracy. People can become the new big Brothers by keeping an eye on politics. Democracy: form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. People are be allowed to overthrow the governement if not legitimate. See neologism (sousveillance)

• Internet leaks, as a deterrent, can prevent politicians from lying...

Drawbacks :

I don't know exactly but :

It seems the article comes to mistake information for knowledge. But there is a gap: we live in a world of informations, (a host of information? Fake news …). It's not that easy to distinguish between the true and the false informations and (to) turn information into knowledge. Can lead to a new class system = those who are able to form there own opinions, who are able to understand the whys and wherefores...

Good job!