The Mediatization of Fashion: The Case of Fashion Blogs

Nete Nørgaard Kristensen, Christa Lykke Christensen*

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Abstract

Spurred by digital media logics, blogs have challenged the role of the fashion industry and its mass media portfolio of fashion magazines as authoritative intermediaries of fashion. The chapter investigates how fashion blogs as a distinct type of fashion communication are influenced by the formal and informal logics of the blog as a media technological and generic hybrid. We argue that fashion blogging, being an example of intensified digital communication, challenges the authority of fashion as an institution and transforms previously important ways of fashion communication. The chapter is based on a qualitative analysis of two Danish fashion blogs that received the Danish Fashion Blog Award in 2015 for ‘Best female fashion blog’ and ‘Best personal blog’.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDynamics Of Mediatization : Institutional Change and Everyday Transformations in a Digital Age
Editors Olivier Driessens, Göran Bolin, Andreas Hepp, Stig Hjarvard
Number of pages21
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Publication date2017
Pages225-245
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-62982-7
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-62983-4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
SeriesTransforming Communication
ISSN2730-9320

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