Music and social media

Sosiale medier er over alt, også i musikklivet. I den neste episoden av The Music Talkshow prater doktorgradsstipendiat Eirik Jacobsen om sin forskning på sosiale mediers påvirkning på uavhengig musikkultur. Hør hans samtale med musikerne Dionisia Fjelldalen fra bandet MÍO og Janos Andersson fra bandet Janos.

Social media is everywhere, also in musical life. Hear PhD candidate Eirik Jacobsen talk about his research on social media in independent music culture in conversation with two musicians, in the next episode of The Music Talkshow! (Conversation in Norwegian).

What is The Music Talkshow?

“Music Talkshow” is a musicology dissemination show by our local University of Oslo early career music and sound researchers – PhD’s and postdocs. How do we communicate our research to the “outside” world? How do we maintain our relevance to society as academics? People who write about music, but not the music itself? In other words, how does our work relate to the real world, and how does the real-world manifests in our work?

In this show, we tackle these unanswerable questions with a light-hearted approach: through informal conversations, sound and music examples, and perhaps some experiments. We hope to bridge the gap between those who wonder about music casually and those who do that professionally – from prospective students to lifelong music fans, fidelity nerds, and helpless cheesy romantics. By doing so, we will leave our own comfort zones to show the diversity of the academic community to showcase new voices and sounds, encourage participation, and take an alternative turn on the University.