English

Noun

informationism ‎(uncountable)

1. A significant ideology that information has power when disseminated.
2. The use of information as a weapon.
3. The act of countering government propaganda.
4. The act of undermining advertising.

Quotations

• 2006. Kozzmo(blog). Informationism.

  At present, informationism is considered a form of web-based terrorism, using blogs as a platform to initiate propagandist attacks. This definition, however is that generated by the post-modernist.

• 2004. Habits of the High-Tech Heart, by Quentin Schultze: (ethicsdaily.com/article Book review by Ethics Daily)

  Informationism: “a non-discerning, vacuous faith in … information.”

• 2000. Heroux, Erick. The Ideology of Information & The Tactics of Literature. (Dissertation Abstract, Nov. 1 2000)

  Informationism is identified as a significant emerging ideology.

References

1. ↑ Price 1993

• The informationists (Overview Contraflow on the SuperHighway), by Richard Price. 1993.
• Informationism, In Wikablog.
• blog The Informationist
• website informationism.org

Anagrams

• misinformation