The novel “Little Brother” begins with four teenagers involved in an explosion while playing a role-playing game, they are subsequently arrested by the Department of Homeland Security, then interrogated and even abused. Eventually, they are released, but one of them, Darryl, was not and DHS refused to tell the group where he was. After this event, one of the four teenagers, Marcus, began to revolt against the DHS through technological attacks and he created a network of teenagers, called Xnet, using the Consul X-box to communicate. In the last part of the novel, he tells a trusted journalist about the ordeal he and his friends went through. When the report was released, he was imprisoned again by DHS. During a simulated drowning interrogation, local soldiers raided the compound where DHS was located and eventually managed to free Darryl and many others who were being questioned by DHS. The novel was heavily influenced by Orwellian ideas, particularly George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty Four"; it addresses issues related to social movements. Which is well linked to Manuel Castells' Network Society, in which he explains how the characteristics of a network society; it informs us that power resides in those who are part of this networked society and are able to influence other social actors. Because the distribution of information is so horizontal in this society, ideas spread quickly and make it the ideal platform for social movements to emerge, like Marcus's Xnet. According to Manuel Castells, "power is the structural capacity of a social actor to impose other social actors" and throughout history we see that there will always be a counter-power that opposes this power. A Littl...... middle of paper...... to be free, one must act freely In our context in the Philippines, as insignificant as it may seem, the rallies and the dissemination of. information in social media on political and national issues makes a difference, because, as Marcus said: “If you look long enough, they will look back. pig; it is thanks to the protest and the way the news spread on social networks that the trials were accelerated, it is because the government realized that it had to give its people answers; to his impending questions Even though the trial did not go as the people wanted, one thing they were able to learn from it was that their government was no longer serving them properly. People realized that it was now up to them to decide how to take control of their lives and overcome their obstacles...