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About us
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.
SComS: thematic section on Fashion Comm
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.
Fashion Communication Research. A way ahead
This document, designed and written during the conference FACTUM 19, has two main goals: to help consolidate Fashion Communication as an academic field, and to support an international and interdisciplinary network of scholars in the area, whose collaboration may lead to a larger body of research and, in turn, to further academic recognition.
To do so, it outlines main research topics, approaches and challenges, as well as related industry issues and learning dimensions.
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.
eLearning in the Fashion Industry
This report presents an exploratory qualitative analysis of how 16 international companies have leveraged on eLearning opportunities. In-depth interviews with trainers and managers in different units have allowed providing a vivid image of eLearning within Fashion companies.
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
Online Courses and MOOCs
Discover the list of relevant Online Courses and MOOCs in (digital) fashion communication
Events
All events
Discover the list of digital fashion events where our team is involved in as organizers or speakers.
Fashion Communication Conference
Fashion communication: between tradition and future digital developments – FACTUM19 Conference took place at CSF Congressi Stefano Franscini, in Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, on 21-26 July, 2019.