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Virtual Events Management:Theory and Methods for Event Management and Tourism
Full text linkVirtual Events Management: Theory and Methods for Event Management and Tourism is a unique text in that it is the first academic textbook to examine events from an ‘online’ perspective and the various connotations of this – virtual, hybrid, augmented and virtual realities, and more recently within the metaverse.This book aims to help event professionals and students (both current and aspiring) to understand what virtual and hybrid events are, how they can be designed and managed, how they can be created to enhance the event experience, and how to reduce the likelihood of failure, as well as the potential future directions of events.With international case studies and contributions from an international team of experts, it examines:• What are virtual and hybrid events?• How can we make virtual event experiences meaningful and engaging?• What are the benefits of virtual events?• What are the challenges of virtual events?• What is the metaverse and what role will this play in the future of events?Written in a clear and user-friendly style, each chapter has a clear learning structure and pedagogic features including aims of the chapter, international case studies to support the learning and demonstrate industry best practice, discussion points and a concluding ‘what we have learned’ feature to finish. Each chapter is designed to explore different aspects of virtual events and how we can develop our knowledge and understanding to enable us to create positive event experiences within this new virtual arena
Is there a doctor in the house? Addressing the challenges of medical provision for events
No full textThis chapter discusses the challenges of evaluating appropriate medical cover for events through the consideration of risk, attitudes to risk, lack of guidance and practical case studies. There is no consistent, robust guidance at present which leads to a dependence on the event manager to discern the risks involved and select cover within the parameters of budget, scale and stakeholder needs
Is there a doctor in the house? Medical provision at live events
No full textEvent organisers have a duty of care to their attendees that extends to making suitable provisions for their health, safety, and welfare. Organisers are also responsible for ensuring their event does not create unnecessary extra demand on local healthcare services. However, alongside these basic principles lies a complex array of risks, particularly concerning the provision of medical care. This chapter delves into the intricate realm of risk attitudes, specifically regarding medical provision at events within the United Kingdom
Is there a doctor in the house? Addressing the challenges of medical provision for events
No full textThis chapter discusses the challenges of evaluating appropriate medical cover for events through the consideration of risk, attitudes to risk, lack of guidance and practical case studies. There is no consistent, robust guidance at present which leads to a dependence on the event manager to discern the risks involved and select cover within the parameters of budget, scale and stakeholder needs
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The future of the events industry
No full textFuture-gazing in the business world is always a potentially hazardous endeavour. Until recently, the events industry had been developing at a rigorous pace all around the world, with an annual value estimated in the $ trillions (Brown, 2021), and anticipated to continue growing exponentially. However, who could have predicted the tumultuous challenges that would soon face the events industry in the UK, across Europe, and around the world? The global events industry of the future will need to respond to the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, Brexit, economic decline, political unrest, and the ubiquitous, ever-advancing march of digital and telecommunications technology. These deep changes to local and global business conditions have forced event professionals to rethink the most fundamental concepts and processes of live event production and consumption. In the new, hyper-connected, digitised world, what will it even mean to ‘attend’ an event in the coming century? The aim of this chapter is to consider the future of virtual, hybrid, and in-person events in the coming century in the face of these continuous evolving global conditions. The chapter discusses and reflects on three key perspectives. First, how will the development and availability of emerging event technologies affect attendees’ experience of events through the use of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies, new event platforms, and immersive technologies? Second, what is the potential for virtual and hybrid events in the future? How will virtual realities and hybrid events of the future affect event marketing, event attendance, event experience, and event industry revenue models? And finally, which skills will event professionals of the future need to evolve in order to survive and thrive in the new events industry environment? Two case studies are used to illustrate recent developments and the potential future direction of virtual events. The first of these is the multi-media ‘concert’ experience called ‘Abba Voyage’, and the second case considers a small independent theatre venue in east London and its technical adaptations during and post Covid. The chapter concludes with a reflection on the future fluidity of in-person, hybrid, and virtual events
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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