Green, Digital Storytelling: Communicating Sustainable Fashion on Instagram

S. Sommer, M. Jooss*

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Abstract

This paper deals with the importance of sustainable fashion through digital storytelling with the use of Instagram as a storytelling tool. The analysis of literature focuses on digital and serious storytelling as well as fast fashion and the solutions that fair fashion offers. The methodical implementation took place in form of a content analysis of 7 Instagram accounts of fair fashion companies. The results show that the following content is communicated: Drawing attention to problem with fast fashion, sustainable materials, sustainable practices, eco-friendly manufacturing processes, healthy/fair working conditions for production workers, drawing attention to consumption of resources.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationConference Proceedings Trends in Business Communication 2022
EditorsPeter Schneckenleitner, Wolfgang Reitberger, Alexandra Brunner-Sperdin
PublisherSpringer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH
Pages111-126
Number of pages16
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-658-40619-6
ISBN (Print)978-3-658-40618-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 May 2023

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