prosumption
nounEtymology Blend of production + consumption.
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Human sciences, Sciences, Social science, Sociology The contribution to product development by end users.
- The chapter covers the review of approaches that have been developed by prosumption specialists to improve the integration between the production for use and production for sale.2013, Małgorzata Pańkowska, Frameworks of IT Prosumption for Business Development, page XX:
- In fact they suggest that the rise of prosumption signals a new stage of capitalism in which it no longer makes sense to speak of workers as exploited.2017, Debra Benita Shaw, Posthuman Urbanism: Mapping Bodies in Contemporary City Space:
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- Although they did not have the concept until recently, sociologists, social theorists, and other students of society and the media have always focused, albeit unknowingly, on prosumption.2019, Frederick F. Wherry, Ian Woodward, The Oxford Handbook of Consumption, page 77:
- Related terms
- metaconsumer