"metaconsumer" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1991, A. Fuat Firat, “The Consumer in Postmodernity”, in Advances in Consumer Research, volume 18",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1994, Leonardo - Volume 27, page 423",
          "text": "In a conventional relationship between designer and consumer, the consumer places orders; a metaconsumer works on par with a metadesigner as “co-author.”",
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          "ref": "1996, Ulrike Schöneberg, Consumer Trends in Banking and Insurance, page 64",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2006, Takayuki Tatsumi, Full Metal Apache",
          "text": "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.",
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        "One who actively shapes the products that they purchase."
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          "ref": "1995, Rob Kling, Spencer C. Olin, Mark Poster, Postsuburban California",
          "text": "A metaconsumer is not only a consumer of products and symbols but also an active participant in the shopping spectacle.",
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          "ref": "1997, Meryl Beth Rappaport, Remodeling Home Care, page 110",
          "text": "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).",
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          "ref": "1999, James A. Boon, Verging on Extra-vagance",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1999, Herbert Dawid, Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Adaptive Methods, page 127",
          "text": "Most of these examples assume one producer and one consumer ( or aggregate them into one metaproducer and one metaconsumer ) .",
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          "ref": "2021 November 2, Jessica Goodfellow, “Who will control the metaverse?”, in Campaign US",
          "text": "In other words, metaverse equals 'metacreator' and 'metaconsumer'.",
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          "ref": "1997, Joseph Litvak, Michèle Barale, Jonathan Goldberg, Strange Gourmets: Sophistication, Theory, and the Novel, page 63",
          "text": "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.",
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