commodification
Sign in to saveCommodification is the process of transforming inalienable, free, or gifted things (objects, services, ideas, nature, personal information, people, or animals) into commodities, or objects for sale. It has a connotation of losing an inherent quality or social relationship when something is integrated by a capitalist marketplace. Concepts that have been argued as being commodified include broad items such as the body, intimacy, public goods, animals and holidays.
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- History
- Terminology
- In Marxist theory
- Mass communication studies
- Commodification of life
- Animal commodification
- Human commodification
- Self-commodification
- Commodification of culture
- Commodification of holidays
- Commodification of indigenous cultures
- Commodification of love
- Commodification of media, Internet and online communities
- Commodification of public goods
- Commodification of subcultures
- Commodification of tourism
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
Commodification is the process of transforming inalienable, free, or gifted things (objects, services, ideas, nature, personal information, people, or animals) into commodities, or objects for sale. It has a connotation of losing an inherent quality or social relationship when something is integrated by a capitalist marketplace. Concepts that have been argued as being commodified include broad items such as the body, intimacy, public goods, animals and holidays.
== History ==