informationist

English

Etymology

From information +‎ -ist. Informationist and 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

informationist (plural informationists)

1. One who gathers, analyzes, interprets and uses information, possibly as a career.
2. One who practices informationism.

References

• The Informationist Discipline. Copyright © 1999-2005 Workhorse Systems Australia Pty Ltd. [1]
• The informationists (Overview Contraflow on the SuperHighway), by Richard Price. 1993.[2]