The increasing centrality of prosumption in the digital capitalist economy

Autor: George Ritzer, Piergiorgio Degli Esposti
Přispěvatelé: P. Degli Esposti, G. Ritzer
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie. 45:351-369
ISSN: 1862-2585
1011-0070
DOI: 10.1007/s11614-020-00422-z
Popis: Prosumption, or the integration of production and consumption, has al- ways been predominant, although thinking about economic activity has been dom- inated in the past by the concept of production (especially after the Industrial Rev- olution) and later by consumption (with the Consumer Revolution after WWII). However, both production and consumption can be thought of as types of prosump- tion involving varying degrees of each. In the digital age it has become increasingly difficult to conceive of a sharp separation between the two, partially due to the intrinsic nature of digital prosumption itself. All acts in that realm involve both pro- duction and consumption. That is particularly the case in what we would ordinarily consider digital consumption where acts of consumption require acts of production. This is a small part of the broader process of the emergence of prosumer capitalism as the major economic form rather than producer or consumer capitalism.
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