metaconsumption

meta- +‎ consumption

• Rhymes: -ʌmpʃən

metaconsumption (uncountable)

1. (social sciences) The consumption of a process of consumption, rather than of an actual work or product.
   • 2008, Shalini Shankar, Desi Land: Teen Culture, Class, and Success in Silicon Valley:

     In metaconsumption, the objectification, rather than the object itself, is shared, circulated, and consumed. This objectification can impart status to and shape identity for those who are able to lay claim to it through language.

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