International Baccalaureate IB Digital society

Power is a feature of all social relations that involves a person’s or group’s capacity to influence or control the actions of others

Possible initial inquiry question: How is power embedded or exercised through a specific digital system, technology or platform?

Power is structural and embedded within institutions, organizations and governments

Possible initial inquiry question: Do digital systems and technologies enable or constrain the exercise of power?

Possible initial inquiry questions: Is it inevitable that power in digital society is unequally distributed? How might digital systems and technologies influence the distribution of power?