Understanding in-situ social media use at music festivals

  • Authors:
  • Sue Jamison-Powell;Lucy Bennett;Jamie Mahoney;Shaun Lawson

  • Affiliations:
  • Independent Researcher, Sheffield, United Kingdom;Independent Researcher, Cardiff, United Kingdom;University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom;University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the companion publication of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

Participation at large music festivals is changing, with many attendees using social media platforms to mediate and shape their experiences of attending such events. We used a combination of Twitter and Foursquare to collect social media posts from attendees at the Glastonbury 2013 music festival and performed a thematic analysis in order to better understand the in-situ use of such media. Our findings reflect the wide range of users' purposes in such settings and provides a basis for further exploration of this area.