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Social Media, Online Brand Communities, and Customer Engagement in the Fashion Industry

Social Media, Online Brand Communities, and Customer Engagement in the Fashion Industry

Guida Helal
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 30
ISBN13: 9781522573449|ISBN10: 1522573445|EISBN13: 9781522573456
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7344-9.ch007
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Helal, Guida. "Social Media, Online Brand Communities, and Customer Engagement in the Fashion Industry." Leveraging Computer-Mediated Marketing Environments, edited by Gordon Bowen and Wilson Ozuem, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 143-172. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7344-9.ch007

APA

Helal, G. (2019). Social Media, Online Brand Communities, and Customer Engagement in the Fashion Industry. In G. Bowen & W. Ozuem (Eds.), Leveraging Computer-Mediated Marketing Environments (pp. 143-172). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7344-9.ch007

Chicago

Helal, Guida. "Social Media, Online Brand Communities, and Customer Engagement in the Fashion Industry." In Leveraging Computer-Mediated Marketing Environments, edited by Gordon Bowen and Wilson Ozuem, 143-172. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7344-9.ch007

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Abstract

Fashion brands have shifted communication to social media as part of evolutionary modern-day marketing approaches to reaching consumers. Brands have adjusted to a vocal customer through back-and-forth interchange on social media platforms that have progressively facilitated for online brand communities. Social media brand communities serve to engage audiences in interactive settings that resonate with individual consumers across different levels. As brand awareness is augmented, brand impressions are conceived, brand-customer relationships are formed, and a sense of community is fostered around a brand, consumers exploit association to such social media brand communities in advancing social identity. The following chapter explores the impact of social media brand communities on Millennials in the fashion industry, while considering the social identity theory. The chapter focuses on theoretical and managerial implications. This chapter considers the influence social media brand communities and social identity may have on a fashion brand.

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