Role of Netnography In The Fashion Industry

Netnography is a newly coined term for closely analyzing ethnographic behavioral patterns of netizens (online audience). Netnography is a simplified research method of digital interactions. It is a modified and mordernized qualitative research technique (Kozinets, 2012) . It is a type of ethnographic research based on internet-mediated communications ( Baym, N. K. 1995). Over the past decade Netnography has seen an increasing trend in Google Search as well as application in businesses. Yet there is no trace of the usage of netnography as a research method in the Fashion Industry (Xharavina, Kapoulas and Miaoulis, 2019) . Netizens are people using the internet for social interactions (Hauben and Hauben, 1998) . 4.6 Billion globally are active on the internet population out of which 4.2 Billion people are active social media users (Internet users in the world 2021 | Statista, 2021). Social media is a very extensively used tool by fashion brands to influence buying as well as incre...