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  • noun A significant ideology that information has power when disseminated.
  • noun The use of information as a weapon.
  • noun The act of countering government propaganda.
  • noun The act of undermining advertising.

Etymologies

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Derived from the word information. Informationism 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. Since then use of the term has increased.

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