Promoting the making self in the creative micro-economy

该项目旨在分析一种新的工作场所现象：不仅仅是工作与生活或公私界限的谈判，而是它们的故意瓦解。该项目侧重于手工制作的创意微型企业，旨在确定在竞争激烈的“长尾”工艺品市场中取得成功的“自我制作”技能。通过研究从事在线零售所需的软技能，该研究旨在确定如何提高创造性澳大利亚人经营微型企业的能力。它致力于推进跨学科奖学金的知识基础，对创意产业，文化工作，以及社会媒体对工作/生活关系和个人隐私和身份建设的影响。

The project aims to analyse a new workplace phenomenon: not simply the negotiation of work-life or public-private boundaries, but their deliberate collapse. Focussing on handmade creative micro-enterprise, it aims to identify the 'self-making' skills for success in the competitive 'long tail' craft marketplace. By examining the soft skills required to engage in online retail, the research aims to identify ways of improving the ability of creative Australians to run a micro-enterprise. It endeavours to advance the knowledge base of interdisciplinary scholarship on creative industries, cultural work, and on the impact of social media upon work/life relationships and personal privacy and identity construction.