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Ravelry.com: Augmenting Fiber Craft Communities and Social Making with Web 2.0
Author Info
Thome, Hannah R.
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1524488670252085
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2018, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Art History (Fine Arts).
Abstract
Ravelry.com is a social networking website for fiber crafters, launched in May 2007 by Jessica and Casey Forbes. The Forbes’ main goal had been to help makers who were previously frustrated by the insubstantial, inconsistent fiber craft information on the internet. One decade later, the site has spawned a sizable niche community of over seven and a half million dedicated members. In 2017, I surveyed over three hundred members of Ravelry.com to glean information on crafting trends within the twenty-first century. From their answers I investigate fiber arts in contemporary spaces of social making. I put my research in dialogue with craft theory, digital production and gendered craft research to explore how fiber crafting has arrived at its current incarnation. According to my survey respondents, Ravelry.com has evolved to fulfill multiple purposes in the lives of crocheters, knitters, spinners and weavers.
Committee
Samuel Dodd, Dr. (Advisor)
Andrea Frohne, Dr. (Committee Member)
Pages
78 p.
Subject Headings
Art History
;
Sociology
Keywords
Fiber craft
;
Ravelry
;
crafting trends
;
survey
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Thome, H. R. (2018).
Ravelry.com: Augmenting Fiber Craft Communities and Social Making with Web 2.0
[Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1524488670252085
APA Style (7th edition)
Thome, Hannah.
Ravelry.com: Augmenting Fiber Craft Communities and Social Making with Web 2.0 .
2018. Ohio University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1524488670252085.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Thome, Hannah. "Ravelry.com: Augmenting Fiber Craft Communities and Social Making with Web 2.0 ." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1524488670252085
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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