# metaconsumer
## English
### Etymology

From meta- +‎ consumer.

### Noun

metaconsumer (plural metaconsumers)
* One who actively shapes the products that they purchase.
** 1991, A. Fuat Firat, “The Consumer in Postmodernity”, in Advances in Consumer Research, volume 18:Some of the implications of the entrenchment of the metaconsumer in the era of postmodernity have been-recently recognized in the field of consumer research by researchers who are at the forefront of major leaps in methodological and theoretical movements in this field.
** 1994, Leonardo - Volume 27, page 423:In a conventional relationship between designer and consumer, the consumer places orders; a metaconsumer works on par with a metadesigner as “co-author.”
** 1996, Ulrike Schöneberg, Consumer Trends in Banking and Insurance, page 64:For "medium customers", the beginnings of the conception of the metaconsumer takes place on the base of many frustrations: the time of mistrust and the loss of privileges.
** 2006, Takayuki Tatsumi, Full Metal Apache:In the state of postmodern consumption, even producers-as-writers are transformed into metaconsumers whose response to new commodities such as the rental family is always masochistic, but is also highly creative.
* One who consumes or seeks out aspects of consumerism; a consumer of the experience of shopping and advertising (as opposed to the products bought).
** 1995, Rob Kling, Spencer C. Olin, Mark Poster, Postsuburban California:A metaconsumer is not only a consumer of products and symbols but also an active participant in the shopping spectacle.
** 1997, Meryl Beth Rappaport, Remodeling Home Care, page 110:Increasingly businesses are the market targeted by managed care organizations; as purchasers of health insurance options for their employees, businesses are the new metaconsumers of health care insurance (Sacramento Bee, 1995; Marion Merrell Dow, 1995).
** 1999, James A. Boon, Verging on Extra-vagance:Oh, an ardent hermeneut might try to distinguish his or her own experience as more intensively "pop" than that of less authentic metaconsumers passing through Coke's world.
* A person, system, or organization that purchases something on behalf of a group of consumers.
** 1999, Herbert Dawid, Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Adaptive Methods, page 127:Most of these examples assume one producer and one consumer ( or aggregate them into one metaproducer and one metaconsumer ) .
** 2021 November 2, Jessica Goodfellow, “Who will control the metaverse?”, in Campaign US:In other words, metaverse equals 'metacreator' and 'metaconsumer'.
* One who consumes (destroys) the act or possibility of consumption.
** 1997, Joseph Litvak, Michèle Barale, Jonathan Goldberg, Strange Gourmets: Sophistication, Theory, and the Novel, page 63:If it is possible thus to shift from a generically female consumer to a uniquely male metaconsumer (whose slaughter of the too-desirable peacocks would, however vainly, mark an all-consuming end of consumption itself) , this possibility has everything to do with the trick whereby Thackeray stages his consumption so that its feminizing—in a context of male rivalry, effectively homosexualizing—voractity gets transmuted into the distinguished distance, or the killing melancholic disavowal, constitutive, as Judith Butler has argued, of male heterosexuality itself.