Introduction
Power shapes which meanings become visible, legitimate, repeated, and difficult to challenge.
Communication is connected to power because not everyone has equal access to platforms, institutions, resources, or public credibility. Some voices are amplified while others are ignored or discredited.
Power can operate directly through laws and authority, but it also works symbolically through representation, categories, norms, expertise, and common sense. Messages can make unequal structures appear natural or inevitable.
Power analysis asks who benefits, who disappears, who defines the problem, and which alternatives are excluded from consideration.