Document Type
Panel Presentation
Start Date
21-4-2017 3:00 PM
End Date
21-4-2017 4:15 PM
Keywords
musicians, music, social media
Biography
Arika Michaelis is a senior Communication Studies major at Marshall University with minors in French and Music. Arika is originally from Woodville, OH but she now resides in Huntington, WV. In her free time, Arika likes to sing and make music with her band, The Settlement and other musician friends. After meeting and working with a number of gigging musicians she became interested in the way they utilize social media to market themselves and their shows.
Major
Communications Studies
Advisor for this project
Dr. Cam Brammer
Abstract
Gigging musicians will exhaust their resources to get more audience members and music lovers at their show and active on their social media outlets. I will be conducting a survey in the Tri-State area to discover how local gigging musicians utilize social media to promote themselves and their shows. I hope to uncover what varying local musicians have found most useful in the age of social media. In doing so, local musicians and gigging musicians in smaller music scenes across the United States will be able to benefit in their promotions from my study.
How Gigging Musicians Utilize Social Media
Gigging musicians will exhaust their resources to get more audience members and music lovers at their show and active on their social media outlets. I will be conducting a survey in the Tri-State area to discover how local gigging musicians utilize social media to promote themselves and their shows. I hope to uncover what varying local musicians have found most useful in the age of social media. In doing so, local musicians and gigging musicians in smaller music scenes across the United States will be able to benefit in their promotions from my study.
