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Volume 11, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 2051-7106
  • E-ISSN: 2051-7114

Abstract

In recent years, there has been a growing number of podcasts that discuss fashion. While many of these podcasts function as marketing or loyalty-building mechanisms, there is also a category of podcasts that approach fashion critically, offering new perspectives on the global fashion system. This article explores podcasting as a form of popular media communication and a powerful tool through which to translate fashion studies research for general audiences. The article argues that there are three key reasons for the popularity and demand for podcast content: they are a form of media that is generally inexpensive, democratic and intimate. It maps the current state of academic and academic-adjacent fashion podcasting and uses the as an example of how the medium can share complex fashion studies research with the public in new and engaging ways.

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Keyword(s): critical fashion studies; fashion communication; fashion media; local fashion; podcasting; research translation; storytelling

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