informationism

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 .

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