Rachel Cody Pfister

Rachel Cody Pfister is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication at UC San Diego. She is interested in youth culture and new media interests, primarily focusing on interest-based, collaborative online communities of young people. Her research focuses on the online fiber-crafting communities of ravelry.com and etsy.com to learn who participates in these communities, the effect of participation in these communities on members’ crafting, and how the technical and social designs of these sites relate to members’ crafting development and participation in these sites.