Consumption
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Consumption or usage is a concept elaborated by Michel de Certeau´s work The practice of everyday life, published in 1984. It refers to the way we react on a certain representation of a society (de Certeau, 1984, p. xii). Individuals and groups of individuals use a social phenomena, they make or do something with it. For example, when we see a television broadcast (representation of a social phenomena), we all have a way of responding to it, we all have a different interpretation. This making or consuming is a hidden form of a production.
References
de Certeau, M. (1984). Introduction. In The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. xi-xxiii.
Created by BoudewijnIdema, 15 september 2011
