Research index
Prosumption
Ritzer
9 Oct 2018
NobleIDark:/48914/w1/20260521/90CC7164DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190695583.013.3
Prosumption
Ritzer · 2018 · Subscription
NobleIDark:/48914/w1/20260521/90CC7164DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190695583.013.3
The full text is at the publisher
You can read the abstract here, or open it at the publisher.
Abstract
While prosumption (the interrelated process of production and consumption) is a primal process and has always been ubiquitous, we have entered a revolutionary “new world” of prosumption in both the material, and especially the digital, world. Prosumption is conceived of as a continuum ranging from prosumption-as-production (usually thought of as “production”) to prosumption-as-consumption (usually seen as “consumption”). It is associated with a new stage of capitalism—prosumer capitalism—that has increasingly come to control the process and to exploit prosumers. Key to the new world of prosumer capitalism is a new, extreme, and more “magical” form of exploitation—“synergistically double exploitation.”