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Hi everyone, 
I am currently in my last year of Uni studying Events Management and I am doing my dissertation looking at how peoples motivational factors have changed and how festivals are now a more commercial experience rather than the celebration of music. I would really appreciate if you could answer a few questions for my survey will only take a few minutes! Would love to hear peoples opinions on the topic and if anyone knows any good contacts in the festival industry that I could email or any articles online I could reference in my dissertation that would be much appreciated! Thank you x https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/WTJLTPKs://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/WTJLTPKhttps://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/WTJLTPKhttps://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/WTJLTPK

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1 hour ago, ruby.10 said:

Hi everyone, 
I am currently in my last year of Uni studying Events Management and I am doing my dissertation looking at how peoples motivational factors have changed and how festivals are now a more commercial experience rather than the celebration of music. I would really appreciate if you could answer a few questions for my survey will only take a few minutes! Would love to hear peoples opinions on the topic and if anyone knows any good contacts in the festival industry that I could email or any articles online I could reference in my dissertation that would be much appreciated! Thank you x https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/WTJLTPKs://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/WTJLTPKhttps://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/WTJLTPKhttps://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/WTJLTPK

I've done it,  but disagree with your premise insofar as my reasons haven't changed over the decades and I think there are enough festivals that aren't wholly commercial that I'm not the only one . 

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I've completed it but if I were you I would not use this in final year degree level project as to me it shows you haven't done any investigation  into qualitative research methods so I'm not sure it will add anything to your project. 

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It's fairly common isn't it:-
 

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Post survey, which invariably has some elements which people think are questionable or imprecise.

Some folks complete the survey and add their comments to the thread.

The original poster doesn't respond.

Next time we should all get together and put in the same answers :D 

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On 08/11/2016 at 6:37 PM, Gnomicide said:

Done, but like others have said, I can't see what you will get from my answers. I've not been to V and my reasons for attending festivals has not changed.

It would be nice if you could return to the thread and explain your thinking.

Somehow I doubt they will ...

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It's an odd research method as you know nothing about the people completing it other than they are from a festivals forum. You have no information on the demographics so I can't see how any information gained would quantifiable for a dissertation level piece.

It just screams of "I like going to festivals...so I'll just do my dissertation on that", which will lead to you having a panic in a couple months time when you realise there's not enough body and opinion to give a decent final piece. 

Sorry to be negative. I'm sure it's great and you'll be fine...

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I've done the survey too but I'm not sure what you're hoping to get out of it. Fair enough, V is one of if not the most commercial festival out there, but there are also festivals less commercial than Glastonbury, and really, the most commercial festival on the planet can be just an equal a celebration of music as the least. If we're going to go down the road of saying oh my festival's a celebration of music and yours isn't, your taste is invalid, then we're just dickheads. Two people could go to one festival for different reasons, one person could go to two festivals for different reasons, some people's weekends will be ruined by swamp fests, others will make the most of it and have a fantastic time.

Reading your post and going through the survey, it made me think of an article I read a few months back https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/17/baby-boomers-have-already-taken-all-the-houses-now-theyre-coming-for-our-brunch

I think that's kinda significant when it comes to the popularity of festivals too.. Festivals seem to have achieved a bucket list status now, people are buying experiences cos fuck it, we're screwed, the housing market is ridiculous and 75% of us earn less than the "average" salary and 40% of that is going on rent. Glastonbury is the jewel in the crown of the festival circuit, literally millions who try to get tickets miss out every year, but there are plenty of other festivals out there. I'll go to Glastonbury every chance I get because it's Glastonbury, had some amazing times there and love the atmosphere, layout, activism and there's always some hidden treasure to discover. But it's always my main holiday of the year when I do go, cos to me, it's so expensive. But this is me, do I count as a millennial at 33? I don't know... I'd written off home ownership, but now I'm so sick of rip off private landlords and crap flats and houses that I'd like to buy somewhere if I can. Even if it's only a shared ownership thing. 

I reckon it'd be interesting to look more into the demographics of festival attendees, where they come from, what they do, how much they earn, what they believe etc. If you find out from this survey what people's priorities are without knowing anything else about the people, I'm not sure how useful that'd be. 

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