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English

Etymology

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.

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.
5. Commitment to the idea that the world is fundamentally composed of, supervenes upon, or reduces to, information of some kind .
6. Commitment to the truth of one or another form of informational ontology or informational metaphysics .
7. A primary aesthetic quality of the literary and/or fictional works belonging to the literary subgenre (of science fiction) called informationist science fiction, and a primary aesthetic disposition of the authors of those works or texts. Commonly included in the corpus of informationist science fiction literature are such texts as Samuel R. Delany's Babel 17, and Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep

Quotations

• 2018. Informationism.

  I mentioned and briefly outlined informationism (of a very specific kind) about mathematical entities and structures. I contrasted my view of structure as an ontic primitive with the structural realist views of Ladyman and Ross (who hold a physico-statisticalist position according to which structures are relations) and French (whose position is one of realism about modality as the ontic ground of the relations constituting structure) and provided a naturalised conception of representations." . p 71

• 2009. Informationism.

  In science, informationism involves the implicit recognition of information as a natural as well as a man-made commodity, and the conception of information as a substantive, quantifiable, empirically verifiable entity in all natural sciences, as well as a conceptual and theoretic abstracta for problem solving and elucidation. Scientific informationism is also signified by the increasingly information-centric nature of scientific practice due to advances in digital computer technology and especially software. As Daniel Cordle has observed, Richard Dawkins‘ landmark The Selfish Gene sees gene sequences and DNA as coded information. In The Blind Watchmaker, Dawkins has this to say about life itself from a scientific perspective: "What lies at the heart of every living thing…is information, words, instructions…If you want a metaphor…If you want to understand life, don‘t think about vibrant, throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology." . p 7

• 2009. Informationism.

  What I have called informationism describes the embracing of information-scientific and information-theoretic imperatives, paradigms, tools and principles across numerous human disciplines and epistemes from the sciences to literature and aesthetics. p 7

• 2006. Kozzmo(blog). Informationism.[1]

  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)[2]

  Informationism is identified as a significant emerging ideology.

References

• The informationists (Overview Contraflow on the SuperHighway), by Richard Price. 1993.[3]
• Informationism, In Wikablog.
• blog The Informationist
• website informationism.org
  

Anagrams

• misinformation

English

Etymology

From Middle English informacion, enformacion, borrowed from Anglo-Norman informacioun, enformation, Old French information, from Latin ?nf?rm?ti? (“formation, conception; education”), from the participle stem of ?nform?re (“to inform”). Compare West Frisian ynformaasje (“information”), Dutch informatie (“information”), German Information (“information”), Danish information (“information”), Swedish information (“information”), Norwegian informasjon (“information”).Morphologically inform +? -ation

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??nf??me???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??nf??me???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

information (usually uncountable, plural informations)

1. That which resolves uncertainty; anything that answers the question of "what a given entity is".
2. Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something. [from 14th c.]

3. The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification. [from 14th c.]

4. (law) A statement of criminal activity brought before a judge or magistrate; in the UK, used to inform a magistrate of an offence and request a warrant; in the US, an accusation brought before a judge without a grand jury indictment. [from 15th c.]
   • 1968, Carl B. Cone, The English Jacobins, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 131:

     On May 21, 1792, the Attorney General filed an information against Paine charging him with seditious libel.

5. (obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation. [14th-17th c.]
6. (now rare) The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training. [from 14th c.]
7. (now rare) The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation. [from 17th c.]
8. (computing) […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
9. (Christianity) Divine inspiration. [from 15th c.]
10. A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber. [from 20th c.]
12. (information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit. [from 20th c.]
13. As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data. [from late 20th c.]
14. (information technology) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message). [from late 20th c.]

Usage notes

• The definition of information in the computing context is from an international standard vocabulary which, though formally accepted, is largely ignored by the computing profession.[1]

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Pages starting with “information”.

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• information on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• information at OneLook Dictionary Search
• information in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• information in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin informati?, informati?nis.

Noun

information c (singular definite informationen, plural indefinite informationer)

1. (a piece of) information.

Inflection

Derived terms

• kontaktinformation

French

Etymology

From Old French, borrowed from Latin informati?, informati?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.f??.ma.sj??/

Noun

information f (plural informations)

1. (countable) piece of information; datum

   Cette information nous est parvenue hier soir.

2. (plural only) news

   Tous les jours, il regarde la télé le midi pour suivre les informations.

3. (uncountable) information

   Théorie de l'information.

Synonyms

• (piece of information): donnée, nouvelle
• (news): nouvelles
• (information): renseignement

Derived terms

• autoroute de l'information
• lettre d’information
• relevé d'informations
• société de l’information

Related terms

• informateur, infomatrice
• informaticien
• informatif
• informationnel
• informatique
• informatiser
• informer

Further reading

• “information” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin informati?, informati?nis.

Pronunciation

Noun

information c

1. information

Declension

Related terms

• info
• informant
• informationsavdelning
• informatör
• informera
• turistinformation