About us
The Digital Fashion Communication Research Team is under the Institute of Communication Technologies at the Faculty of Communication Sciences of USI – Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano, Switzerland.
Our mission is to investigate online communication as a true human activity, with a long term, comprehensive and holistic approach. In particular, stressing human growth and quest for meaning in online communication experiences in the fashion domain.
Research
Research lines
Learn more about our ongoing research and published master theses on digital fashion communication.
Topics include skills needed today within fashion companies in e-Commerce; design issues of online shoes' configurators; fashion weeks; online promotional activities of fashion startups.
Special issue on Fashion Communication
Special thematic section on Fashion Communication by Studies in Communication Sciences (SComs): an international open access journal of communication research, jointly edited by the Swiss Association of Communication and Media Studies and the Faculty of Communication Sciences of USI
Education
Master of Science in Digital Fashion Communication
Offered by USI – Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland) and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (France), the MSc in Digital Fashion Communication is the first digital fashion communication master of its kind in the world. First intake – September 2018.
List of master programmes
Find here a list of master programmes in (digital) fashion communication, along with a number of bachelor programs offered by universities all over the world
MOOCs
Discover the list of relevant Massive Open Online Courses in (digital) fashion communication
Events
Fashion Communication Conference
Fashion communication: between tradition and future digital developments – FACTUM19 Conference takes place at CSF Congressi Stefano Franscini, in Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, on 21-26 July, 2019.
All events
Discover the list of digital fashion events where our team is involved in as organizers or speakers