?Mode är på modet?
- en kvalitativ studie av fenomenet modebloggar -
AbstractTitle: ?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 RydströmTutor: Else NygrenCourse: Media and communication studies DPeriod: Spring semester 2007University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Information Science,Uppsala universityAim: 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