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Title: Blogs as a new tool of communication and promotion of fashion brands. Research question: How do fashion companies make use of bloggers as a new tool of communication to promote their brands? Purpose: The purpose of this study is to observe and explore how the fashion brands use bloggers and their blogs as a new method to advertise and communicate about them and their products to consumers. The study is conducted from an external point of view. Design/methodology/approach: This study is exploratory and descriptive and uses a qualitative method, with non-randomly method where the sample is composed of six international fashion blogs. To collect data the authors used guideline to conduct the content analysis of these selected blogs. Findings: This study shows that brands use the blogger as human being with the phenomenon of the word-of-mouth and opinion formers/leaders and they also make us of the blog content to incorporate ads to directly communicate to the online communities.

AbstractDuring the recent years the fashion business has taken huge place on the Internet as a result of the emerging social media tools. One of these tools, which is the focus of this thesis, is the fashion blogs which over the past years become more popular and are today seen as a source of information and inspiration for fashion styles and upcoming trends. The boom of fashion bloggers resulted in less control by the magazines and fashion houses. Furthermore, the shift in generation that the world has faced shows that the people of 1980’s, so called the MeWe’s, are the ones who are taking over the society, such as the labour market.“The main purpose with this thesis is to examine and analyze the implications of the blog-development for fashion consumers in the MeWe-generation.”In order to perform my research I chose the qualitative approach where I interviewed ten women within the MeWe-generation. My purpose is to analyze the respondents' views and opinions in order to afterwards put it in relation to the secondary data collected. My goal has been to, as a result of the empirical materials, gain more understanding of the respondents’ views on in what extent they are being influenced by the fashion bloggers. Furthermore, the empirical study, analysis and the conclusion have been presented on the basis of following concepts within the theoretical framework: The MeWe-generation, Social Media, Blogs, Word of Mouth, Word of Mouth Marketing, Viral Marketing, Reference Groups, and Opinion Leadership.In conclusion, one could say that this study shows evidence that the MeWe-generation is being influenced by fashion bloggers. Their overall consumption behaviour is being affected by the frequently updated blogs and they are also gaining more trust towards the fashion bloggers since they can relate to them much more than to the models in the magazines. Also, as a result of the interactivity that occurs between the readers and the bloggers, a positive word of mouth is created which also increase the trustworthiness of the bloggers. Hence, one can say that by the way these fashion blogs are taking place in the MeWe-consumer’s everyday life, it is clear that they are here to stay and will remain their power of influencing them in their fashion consumption. / Program: Magisterutbildning i fashion management med inriktning modemarknadsföring

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:23:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Renata Massignan Ruiz.pdf: 18666802 bytes, checksum: 1d213c86abe1846abad01cd0baec05e7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-09-10 / Fashion blogs have fundamentally changed the way which readers accessed information. The analysis and monitoring of one of the pioneers in this blogs market is the object of this study, evaluating, in parallel, one hundred and thirty blogs analysing the way which social media behaved during the period between the years 2006 to 2012. This research begins with a case study of the blog Moda Para Usar, through categorization of fashion and beauty blogs based on their editorial guidelines / Os blogs de moda alteraram substancialmente a forma pela qual o leitor acessava a informação. A análise e o acompanhamento de um dos blogs pioneiros neste mercado é o objeto deste estudo, avaliando ainda, paralelamente, cento e trinta blogs a fim de ampliar a maneira pela qual as mídias sociais se comportaram durante o período que compreende os anos de 2006 a 2012. Esta pesquisa inicia com o estudo de caso do blog Moda Para Usar, passando pela categorização dos blogs de moda e beleza com base em suas linhas editoriais

<p>Abstract</p><p>Title: “Fashion be in fashion” – a qualitative study of the phenomen fashion blogs (“Mode är på modet” – en kvalitativ studie av fenomenet modebloggar)</p><p>Number of Pages: 46 (54 including enclosures)</p><p>Author: Maria Rydström</p><p>Tutor: Else Nygren</p><p>Course: Media and communication studies D</p><p>Period: Spring semester 2007</p><p>University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Information Science,Uppsala university</p><p>Aim: Contribute to the understanding of a yet unexplored domain, fashion blogs. And contribute to a discussion of the roll of fashion blogs in the swedish fashionindustry.</p><p>Method: Qualitive textual analysis of three fashion blogs and interviews with the authors to the three fashion blogs. Completed with six interviews with experts from the fashionindustry and the blogworld.</p><p>Main results: The authors behind the fashion blogs are young women living in big cities.They write about fashionnews, runway trends, fashion items and style outfits worn by them selves. Fashion blogs provide a new way to follow trends and spread them to the society. Theauthors behind the fashion blogs are opinionleaders with high credibility who uses their personal language to create a bond to their readers. The readers of fashion blogs are firstyoung women between 16-23 years old and second older women between 30-40 years old, some men are also readers. Fashion blogs can be used as strategic tools in marketing.</p><p>Key Words: fashion blogs, opinionleader, credibility, Lasswells communicationmodel, fashionindustry, consumption</p>

Abstract Title: “Fashion be in fashion” – a qualitative study of the phenomen fashion blogs (“Mode är på modet” – en kvalitativ studie av fenomenet modebloggar) Number of Pages: 46 (54 including enclosures) Author: Maria Rydström Tutor: Else Nygren Course: Media and communication studies D Period: Spring semester 2007 University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Information Science,Uppsala university Aim: Contribute to the understanding of a yet unexplored domain, fashion blogs. And contribute to a discussion of the roll of fashion blogs in the swedish fashionindustry. Method: Qualitive textual analysis of three fashion blogs and interviews with the authors to the three fashion blogs. Completed with six interviews with experts from the fashionindustry and the blogworld. Main results: The authors behind the fashion blogs are young women living in big cities.They write about fashionnews, runway trends, fashion items and style outfits worn by them selves. Fashion blogs provide a new way to follow trends and spread them to the society. Theauthors behind the fashion blogs are opinionleaders with high credibility who uses their personal language to create a bond to their readers. The readers of fashion blogs are firstyoung women between 16-23 years old and second older women between 30-40 years old, some men are also readers. Fashion blogs can be used as strategic tools in marketing. Key Words: fashion blogs, opinionleader, credibility, Lasswells communicationmodel, fashionindustry, consumption

The main objective of the thesis was to explore the phenomenon of fashion blogs. Not in terms of their marketing or journalistic function as it was originally intended, but in a way of an examination of the position of the blog author. We focused on the reasons for the motivation of the authors of the blog leading them to continue their work. The first chapter outlined the process of creation of the blog and the development of the blog in general. Based on research of the literature related to the fashion and media, the development of the fashion blog in the Czech Republic was described. The second chapter studied theoretical preview on blogs, which showed the strong relationship between media and blogging, defined marketing influence in the blogging and described product placement. At the same time we have shown from a theoretical point of view, based on the literature sources, the importance for the authors of the blogs of building social capital by blogging. This fact was analysed in the research part of the thesis when the individual answers of the Czech bloggers were presented. The research part of the thesis compared the theory with the practice based on conclusions of the Czech discourse on fashion. This was achieved by analysing of the interviews with leading domestic bloggers. Using qualitative...

The main objective of this master thesis is to discuss the phenomenon of fashion blogs and exploring its features and benefits for the Czech discourse about fashion. The evolution of blogging as a technological phenomenon with mass expansion of the internet and its development is mapped by researching respective literature that deals with fashion and its communication in the media, besides that there is also explored the nature of blogs and their place among traditional media such as print, television or radio. The research would not be complete without proper examination of the motivation that leads to the formation of blogs and of course results of such blogging that can be considered successful. Given that the fashion industry is built on communication of trends and subsequent sales of products that can be described as fashionable, the work aims to deal with the transformation in use of media for this purpose. Following that there is then examined the relationship between blogging and journalism, respectively fashion magazines and the nature of advertising, which is inevitably included in the fashion industry. The research part then verifies conclusions made based on theory in practice of the Czech discourse about fashion, which is achieved by analysis of interviews with leading domestic...

[pt] Este estudo busca compreender o processo de mediação cultural ocorrente em quatro blogs de moda bem sucedidos: Blog da Thássia, Garotas Estúpidas, Super Vaidosa e Petiscos. Através de teorias da mediação cultural, cultura de consumo e campo da moda, o presente trabalho buscou compreender a tematização observada no processo de mediação cultural, bem como a interação social que ali se desenvolve. Para tanto, foram reunidos e analisados um conjunto de posts e comentários veiculados nos quatro blogs, no período entre fevereiro e outubro de 2014. O exame do material evidenciou cinco categorias analíticas – nomeadamente: expressões de afeto, insatisfação, a construção participativa dos blogs, dúvidas e compartilhamento de informações. / [en] This study seeks to understand the process of cultural mediation occurring in four successful fashion blogs: Blog da Thássia, Garotas Estúpidas, Super Vaidosa and Petiscos. Through theories of cultural mediation, consumer culture and the fashion field, the present study sought to understand the lemmatization observed in the process of cultural mediation, as well as social interaction that develops on there. Were gathered and analyzed a set of posts and comments aired on all four blogs, in the period between February and October 2014. The examination of the material showed five analytic categories – in particular, expressions of affection, dissatisfaction, participatory construction of blogging, questions and sharing information.

<p>Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur Internet fungerar som arena för alternativ offentlighet och för kommunikativa utövningar om mode- och skönhetsideal. Avsikten är att förstå hur Internet, och i synnerhet bloggen, fungerar som en plats där man kan tillämpa alternativa praktiker på.</p><p>Undersökningen fokuserar på svenska modebloggar som skiljer sig från mängden, det vill säga de privata bloggar som innehållsmässigt sticker ut och är nischade. De alternativa modebloggar som väljs ut för studien jämförs med Sofi Fahrmans (Aftonbladet) och Ebba von Sydows (VeckoRevyn) bloggar. Anledningen till att valet kom att falla på just Fahrman och von Sydow är att båda är välkända moderedaktörer som ofta figurerar i svenska medier; i TV, tidningar och på Internet.</p><p>Uppsatsen bygger på såväl beskrivande som komparativa innehållsanalyser av sex modebloggar och kompletteras med en öppen enkät som besvaras av ett antal strategiskt utvalda modebloggare. Syftet är att, genom att skapa en bakgrundsbild kring fenomenet modeblogg, få kunskaper om hur modebloggar upprättade av medieföretag samt privata och alternativa modebloggar skiljer sig åt. Undersökningen handlar inte om att undersöka hela modebloggvärlden, utan enbart en del av den mer ingående, för att se hur Internet utnyttjas som arena, för alternativ offentlighet.</p> / <p>The purpose for this study is to examine how Internet works as a space for alternative publicity and as a communicative practice for fashion and ideal of beauty. The idea is to understand how Internet and especially blogs works as a place to practice alternatives on.</p><p>The study is focused on Swedish fashion blogs that differs from the mass. The alternative fashion blogs that are chosen for the study are compared with two blogs from two famous Swedish fashion reporters, Sofi Fahrman (who is working for Aftonbladet) and Ebba von Sydow (at VeckoRevyn). The reason why these two reporters are picked out is because they are well known and often exposed in Swedish media; in TV as well as magazines and Internet.</p><p>This paper contains both descriptive and comparative content analysis of six fashion blogs as well as a questionnaire study answered by some strategically chosen fashion bloggers. The purpose is to, by giving a background explanation about the phenomenon fashion blogs, get knowledges about how fashion blogs made by media companies and private, alternative fashion blogs are differed. The intention with this study is not to explore the whole fashion blog world, but to tell brief about a part of it more detailed to see how Internet is used as a space for alternative publicity.</p>