Yarn Corner - embracing diversity throughout the Global knitting, crochet and looming community

  Public transport users embracing Yarn Bombing

(Yarn Bombing, 2011)

 Out of all the social networks I have taken part in over the years, Yarn Corner is the most warm and welcoming. They embrace equality and diversity and do not engage in discrimination. All language groups have power. We are always trying to spread joy with yarn bombing; quite like the Song lines which were thought to have scattered a trail of words musical lines along the trail of the footprints. (Chatwin, 1987). We of course use the virtual and real words to spread our message.

Mapping the users of this network is straightforward as the administrators have already created a list of where we are all located. It is not evenly spread over the world, with most of the users being based in Melbourne. Due to the targeted interface of Facebook, users from all over the place can find us when trying to virtually embrace common interests. The auto / biographical act of creating a profile...establishes community norms for participation. (McNeill, 2012) The identity of this social network is "real" as we all participate under our real names.

Narratives only have a small part in the group as we rarely share personal experience and photos.It is a contrast to the Aboriginal Dreaming described as "a kind of narrative of things that...happened" (Stanner, 1979); however it can also share traits with the dreaming as "a...charter of things that still happen" (Stanner, 1979) when referring to rules and regulations.

Yarn Corner create narratives in different and creative forms. Old - fashioned thinking communities do not thrive well as they believe our activities to be a waste. A traditional assumption is that a narrative is "just something that people read in a book". (Van Luyn, 2013). Yarn Corner is dispelling this every day.

Bibliography

Chatwin, B. (1987). The Songlines. In B. Chatwin, Australian Aborigines - Social Life and Customs (p. 13). London: Johnathan Cape Ltd.

McNeill, L. (2012). There is no "I" in network: Social Networking Sites and Posthuman Autobiography. Biography 35.1 (Winter 2012), 104.

Stanner, W. (1979). White Man Got No Dreaming. London: United Kingdon, Europe, Middle East and Africa: Eurospan Ltd.

Van Luyn, A. (2013, August 20). BA1002: Our Space: Networks, Narratives and the Making of Place: Networked Narratives. Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

Yarn Bombing The Blue Line [Image]. (2011). Retrieved from: http://www.curbly.com/users/brittanymauriss/posts/10093-craftivism-yarnbombing-and-other-shenanigans