commodification

commodify +‎ -ification

commodification (countable and uncountable, plural commodifications)

1. The assignment of a commercial value to something previously valueless.
   • 2006, Ross Haenfler, Straight Edge: Hardcore Punk, Clean-Living Youth, and Social Change:

     Subcultures tend to go through continual cycles of commodification and resistance to that commodification.

   • 2023 November 21, Megan K. Stack, “Is Ireland Headed for a Merger?”, in The New York Times‎:

     One drizzly morning, I joined a political walking tour to hear former combatants of the Troubles show off Belfast landmarks and tell their stories. Almost everything about this notion piqued my curiosity: the commodification of violence into a tourist product; the idea that “politics” was actually history.

Sometimes used interchangeably with commoditization, sometimes distinguished to have a sense of “non-commercial good becoming commercial”; see commoditize#Usage notes.

• commercialization
• commoditization

• commodify