Social Media in the Fashion Industry: Fundamentals, Strategy and Research Methods

This book introduces social network fundamentals in the fashion domain. It addresses the creation of social media marketing plans, highlighting strategic approaches that allow fashion brands to differentiate themselves in the ephemeral and challenging fashion context.

Through a variety of academic and professional sources and by sharing the results of their own research, the authors present research methodologies, including netnography, visual, sentiment and argumentation analysis, for developing rigorous studies to gain social media insights that can be useful for decision-making and value creation. The book also discusses future trends regarding social media management in the fashion domain via interviews with senior fashion experts.

This cutting-edge book that combines theory and practice will appeal to undergraduate and master students across a broad range of fields including fashion studies, marketing, digital marketing and communication and to young professionals who are starting to work in social media. In addition, this book is also developed for young researchers and PhD students employing social media analysis in their studies.

Patricia SanMiguel is Associate Professor of Digital Marketing, Influence Marketing and Fashion Consumer Behavior at the School of Communication at the University of Navarra and ISEM Fashion Business School.

Tekila Harley Nobile is lecturer and researcher in Luxury Business at Sotheby’s Institute of Art (UK). She is visiting lecturer in Digital Fashion Communication at USI - Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland).

Cristina Sánchez-Blanco is Professor at the School of Communication in the University of Navarra, Spain.

Nadzeya Sabatini is Assistant Professor in Digital Transformation at Gdansk University of Technology (Gdansk, Poland).