metaconsumer

noun

1. One who actively shapes the products that they purchase.

   “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.”

   “In a conventional relationship between designer and consumer, the consumer places orders; a metaconsumer works on par with a metadesigner as “co-author.””

   “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.”

   “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.”

2. One who consumes or seeks out aspects of consumerism; a consumer of the experience of shopping and advertising (as opposed to the products bought).

   “A metaconsumer is not only a consumer of products and symbols but also an active participant in the shopping spectacle.”

   “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).”

   “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.”

3. A person, system, or organization that purchases something on behalf of a group of consumers.

   “Most of these examples assume one producer and one consumer ( or aggregate them into one metaproducer and one metaconsumer ) .”

   “In other words, metaverse equals 'metacreator' and 'metaconsumer'.”

4. One who consumes (destroys) the act or possibility of consumption.