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1. Festival Impact Monitor
Nwilliams@bournemouth.ac.uk
Nferdinand@bournemouth.ac.uk
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2. Why this process?
• Benchmark Events and Festivals social
media engagement
• Understand the impact of hallmark events
and festivals using social media
• Understand the nature of audiences at
Festivals and Events
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4. Work to date
• UK Festivals and
Events
• Birmingham Mela 2013
• Bournemouth Air show 2013
• Edinburgh Fringe 2013
• Glastonbury 2013, 2014
• Luton Carnival (2012,2013,
2014)
• Notting Hill Carnival
(2012&2013)
• Ponty’s Big Weekend 2013
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• International Festivals
• Amsterdam Dance Event 2013
• St Patricks Day 2014
• Calabar Festival 2013
• Nice Carnival 2014
• Trinidad Carnival 2013, 2014
5. Current Event Management
Research
• The events industry is established
• Expositions,
• Sport marketing
• Concert productions,
• However, still new as an academic field of
study and a research topic ( Mair and
Whitford 2013)
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6. Current Event
Management Work
• Impact and evaluation studies including forecasting
assessing and evaluating economic and non economic
impact such as social development, community
structure, social capital, group and place identity
• Motivation and perceptions of visitors and residents
• Environmental studies. Sustainability and greening
• Political studies. Power and politics relationships
between governments, event organizers and
communities
• Management studies: Festival management,
destination management, stakeholders, marketing,
CSR and competition
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7. Existing Event
Management Research
Methods
• Most research based on single or a few cases, generally within the same
culture and environment as the researcher. (Getz 2010)
• Convenience Samples
• Structural Equation Modelling
• Few whole-population studies have been attempted in the festivals and
events sectors.
• Little research on actual experiences
• Few Cross-cultural comparisons of festivals
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8. Non Economic Impact
Evaluation Approaches
Evaluation
Method
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Conventional
Usage
Strengths Possible
Limitations
Survey Stakeholder
analysis,
Participant
Motivation
Low cost,
Multiple options for
distribution
Ignore segments of
population, Relatively
low response rates
Focus
Group
Explore attitudes,
beliefs and
sentiments
Broad exploration
of issues
Difficult to determine
validity of findings,
Relatively expensive
Interviews “” Rich data, Broad
exploration of
issues
Relatively expensive,
Time consuming
Content
Analysis
Value and
sentiment of media
coverage
Wide coverage
and Deep
exploration
Resource intensive,
Relatively slow
10. Emergence of Online
Computer Media Interaction
• Changes in information technology and
devices enable new forms of interaction
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Social network sites
• Virtual Communities
• Community of interest
• Common interest
• Other social or emotional ties may not be
necessary
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11. Social Media data has
been used to predict
• Purchases
• Illness
• Disaster relief efforts
• Stock market
• Why not events?
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12. Online Event research
• Events increasingly host a hybrid
virtual/physical community
• Volume of data
• Census approach vs Sampling
• Authentic (can be sent from festival site)
• Low cost to process
• Supports comparison/benchmarking
• Enables open research: Methods and data
can be made accessible for review
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13. Researching Online
Communities
Researcher
Presence
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Quantitative Qualitative
Obtrusive/ Reactive Online surveys Online interviews
Online lab experiments Online focus groups
Online field research
Unobtrusive/ Non
Reactive
Quantitative web
content analysis
Qualitative web
content analysis
Social Media network
analysis
Online field
experiments
Online natural
experiments
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Underlying topic/
interest communities
Statistical Text
Analysis
Sentiment (Number
of positive and
negative words)
Topic Content
Social Media
Narratives + User
Profiles
Social Network
Analysis by user
location and topic
15. Social network
perspective
• Emphasis on structure of social relations
• Relationships are unit of analysis
• Interdependence of actors
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16. Extracting relationships
from Social Media
• Follows
• Mentions
• Retweets
Person
A
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Person
B
Person
C
Person A follows
Person B
Person C mentions
Person B in tweet
Person C comments on
Person B’s Facebook
Post
A B C
Social network: Directed, unweighted graph
17. Real World Networks
• Scale Free
• Distribution of connections may follow a power
law
• Preferential attachment
• Form subgroups with a specific demographic or
topic focus
• These properties can be used to identify
the stakeholder groupings in online event
conversations
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18. Statistical Text Analysis
• Use statistics to add a numerical
dimension to unstructured text
• Analyze content of conversations in
stakeholder groupings
• Understand the topics of conversations
in online stakeholder groupings
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19. Online Event
Classification
• Size (volume of tweets)
• Span (pattern of topic engagement)
• Scope (Geographic range of online
participants )
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20. Size: Large Virtual Audience > 100,000 interactions
Luton Carnival
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(2013)
Amsterdam
Dance Event
2013
Glastonbury
2013
Edinburgh Fringe
2013
Notting Hill
Carnival
2012/2013
Birmingham
Mela 2013
Ponty’s Big
Weekend
2013
Bournemouth
Air Show
(2013)
Luton Carnival
(2012)
Large Live
Audience
>250,000
(Relatively)
Small Live
Audience
< 50,000
Small Virtual Audience < 10,000 interactions
21. Span: Multiple distinct topic communities
Luton Carnival
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(2013)
Edinburgh Fringe
2013
Notting Hill
Carnival
2012/2013
Birmingham Mela
2013
Ponty’s Big
Weekend 2013
Amsterdam
Dance Event 2013
Bournemouth Air
Show (2013)
Luton Carnival
(2012)
Glastonbury 2013
Large Live
Audience
>250,000
(Relatively)
Small Live
Audience
< 50,000
Small Span of few large topic communities
22. Scope: Global Presence
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Amsterdam
Dance Event
2013
Glastonbury
2013
Edinburgh Fringe
2013
Notting Hill
Carnival
2012/2013
Luton Carnival
(2013)
Birmingham
Mela 2013
Ponty’s Big
Weekend 2013
Bournemouth
Air Show (2013)
Luton Carnival
(2012)
Large Live
Audience
>250,000
(Relatively)
Small Live
Audience
< 50,000
Local Presence
24. Example 2: Notting
Hill Carnival 2013
• Social network analysis was used to
identify the key online communities for the
Notting Hill carnival
• Overall
• 5081 groups, 31,363 twitter user accounts
• 30 major subgroups within community
• High degree of modularity in network. This
means that individuals tend to speak to
members within the group far more than they
speak to members outside the group
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25. Group
Number
Number
of
Members
Description Topics Discussed
1 1861 International Carnival Nation. Members come from all over
the world and participate in Carnivals in the Caribbean, US,
UK and Europe
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Traditional carnival arts of
Steelpan, Calypso, Masquerade
2 1309 London Carnival Nation. Festival performers and fans from
the London Area
Traditional carnival arts of
Steelpan, Calypso, Masquerade
3 1056 Young Traditional Carnival Performers and Fans. Based in
London Area, university/college students
Traditional carnival arts of
Steelpan, Calypso, Masquerade
4 1034 Soundsystem and Reggae Fans. Range of age groups,
primarily London based with a few members in other parts of
the UK, Jamaica and Europe
Reggae Music, Sound Systems
5 1002 African Diaspora. Carnival participants from Ghana and
NIgeria
Afrobeats Music, Contemporary
African Music and Performers
6 864 Online media masters, coverage of Notting Hill Carnival by
blogs and online media companies
Soundsystems, Reggage,
Traditional Carnival Arts, Festival
Program, Transport
7 671 Media Coverage from Traditional Outlets Soundsystems, Reggage,
Traditional Carnival Arts, Festival
Program, Transport
8 653 Highly engaged online individuals. Young individuals (not
companies)
Visual and viral content of phots
and videos
9 596 Political and intellectual twitter users. Academics and
activists who see the carnival as a political platform
Ethnic issues, Policing, History
10 569 Club Promoters Club nights and parties affiliated
with Notting Hill Carnival
26. Analysis
• Carnival has an international online presence
with interactions from all over the world
• Overall network displays an egalitarian
structure:
• No overly dominant account. Largest group is
only 5% of overall accounts
• Top 5 Groups are fairly similar in size
• Diverse range of topics discussed
• Distinct subgroupings based on
demographics/interests
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27. Challenges/Trends
• 2012 to 2013: Shift to Mobile
• Smartphone saturation is approaching
• Social media platform growth rates slowing
• Online interactions are incorporating visual
elements
• Cost of data collection/analysis is falling
• 2012: Manual
• 2014: Many companies offering on demand
access to streaming data, several offering
historical access
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