informationism

Meaning

Noun

• A significant ideology that information has power when disseminated.
• The use of information as a weapon.
• The act of countering government propaganda.
• The act of undermining advertising.
• Commitment to the idea that the world is fundamentally composed of, supervenes upon, or reduces to, information of some kind .
• Commitment to the truth of one or another form of informational ontology or informational metaphysics .

Origin

• information + -ism. This word and informationist (one who practices informationism) are first known to have arisen in the work of a group of Scottish poets in the 1994 book Contraflow on the SuperHighway.