prosumer

Definitions

1. A person in postindustrial society who combines the economic roles of producer and consumer.
2. A serious, enthusiastic consumer: not professional (earning money), but of similar interest and skills to a (generally lower-level) professional, or aspiring to that.

Equivalents

Examples

“During the First Wave⟳ most people consumed what they themselves produced. They were neither producers nor consumers in the usual sense⟳. They were instead what might be called "prosumers."”

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