Ideology, Music and Filesharin
In this ever-growing technological world in which we live, it is ultimately inevitable that the industries in which we consume goods will be tested by advances in the ways people acquire products. The issue of music piracy has been at the forefront of this debate for years, especially on college campus' across the United States. In particular, one newspaper article from a college campus shows the position of the students, the administration, and the music industry in relation to each other and the power struggle within these groups. But what are the ideological implications of the positions represented by each of these parties? First one must examine the relationship between the students, the administration and the music industry in terms of their positions in the article. The administration is concerned with how effectively the students are using the network to support the business of the university, i.e. learning, research and teaching. File-sharing does not support any of these things. But some students feel that it is their right to use the network in a way in which benefits them the most and for some, that means file-sharing. Others feel that file-sharing is a disruption of the
This can be taken even further by looking at the ideology of Althusser, which expands on Marx's idea of this repressive state. He argues that decisions made at the institutional level have a great impact on the individual. Althusser uses theories of structure to expand and enact on that of Marx. Those who continue to file-share are less impacted by these institutions, but they still know that sooner or later they could get caught. In any capitalist society, the structure of that society revolves around class. Foucault says, "the major effect of the Panopticon: to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power" (Foucault 201). An individuals reaction to these repressive and ideological apparatus' interpellates them into society. One could look at the groups involved in this article as a society and use Carl Marx's ideology to analyze them. The music industry uses legal action to punish the administration and the administration uses other slightly repressive methods to punish students for their actions. The decisions made by the music industry to take action against the students impact the individual student in terms of how they decide to deal with these actions. Will the student continue to file-share or will he/she stop because of the threat of what might happen? This is also true for the actions that the administration might take against the student. Through the concept of interpellation, one cannot be outside of ideology.
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