informationismEtymologyFrom 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.informationism means A significant ideology that information has power when disseminated. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 73 out of 100.nounA 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 .