Related News Items – What Have the Media Got to Say?

Written by Yingming Zhao, and Tan Tan

In this blog post, we explore some related news items that discuss the the role of social media and social networking sites in event contexts.

1. “CEO: Bizzabo’s Social Network Good for More Than Messaging”
   The article shows that there are more commercial opportunities for event-based Online Social Networks (OSNs). Sponsors are likely to use it to spread news and gain interested followers. It is available for free so it can attract all kinds of users.
2. “The Best Social Networks for Engaging Event Attendees” Currently, we have to use Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, but they are not originally designed as event-based OSNs. Event-based OSNs have the potential for gaining more market share because there is a huge potential market.
3. “Future of concerts: Social Wearables and Interactive Light Shows”
   The article explores how technology is changing live events and it highlights the importance of mobile technology, including the mobile Web, amongst other things. The article recognises how social media usage is one way in which the live experience is changing artist-audience interaction, extending the audience’s ability express artist affiliation.
4. “Q&A: How the Sundance Film Festival UsesSocial Media”
   The article offers and organiser’s perspective upon social media and Web usage more generally. According to their social media manager, the Sundance Film Festival rely upon live streaming and YouTube content to amplify their events and connecting artists with audience, More recently, Instagram has become a valuable outlet for the Sundance Film Festival; it enables visual storytelling and artistic, interpretative content.
5. “Large Scale Network Analysis”
   Newly emerged event-based online social networking services have started to become popular. An Event-based Social network (ESBN) not only contains online social interactions, but also includes valuable offline social interaction captured in offline activities.
6. “Rise of the Event-Based Social Networks”
   A new type of social networking has emerged that borrows some of the mechanics and incentives from location-based social networks (LBSN), creating what are becoming known as event-based social networks (EBSN).