prosumption

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English

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Etymology

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Blend of production +‎ consumption

Pronunciation

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Noun

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prosumption (uncountable)

  1. (sociology) The contribution to product development by end users.
    • 2013, Małgorzata Pańkowska, Frameworks of IT Prosumption for Business Development, page XX:
      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.
    • 2017, Debra Benita Shaw, Posthuman Urbanism: Mapping Bodies in Contemporary City Space:
      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.
    • 2019, Frederick F. Wherry, Ian Woodward, The Oxford Handbook of Consumption, page 77:
      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.

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