"infowhelm" meaning in English

See infowhelm in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: info- + whelm Etymology templates: {{compound|en|info-|whelm}} info- + whelm Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} infowhelm (uncountable)
  1. An overwhelming abundance of contested scientific information. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-infowhelm-en-noun-9f60YYg6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for infowhelm meaning in English (2.1kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "info-",
        "3": "whelm"
      },
      "expansion": "info- + whelm",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "info- + whelm",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "infowhelm (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020, Heather Houser, Infowhelm: Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data, Columbia University Press, page 2",
          "text": "Artists entangle epistemologies by turning scientific information into a representational device in its own right. That is, information becomes a distinct aesthetic element and a space of interpretive activity that diagnoses infowhelm—and, in some cases, even reproduces it—and experiments with ways of managing it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Pierre-Louis Patoine, “How Sugarcane Accelerated Semiosis During Industrial Moderity, and How We Can Slow Down with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, in Yogi Hale Hendlin, Jonathan Hope, editors, Food and Medicine: A Biosemiotic Perspective, Springer, page 72",
          "text": "If a change in our diet can potentially modulate the individual impact of glucotoxicity, can another semiotic regime remedy infowhelm?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Rachel Dreyfus, Anna Price, “How companies and organizations can overcome ‘infowhelm’ and motivate action for the planet”, in Quirk's Media",
          "text": "How can society overcome the paralysis caused by “infowhelm” and denial? As with most complex challenges, one size does not fit all.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An overwhelming abundance of contested scientific information."
      ],
      "id": "en-infowhelm-en-noun-9f60YYg6",
      "links": [
        [
          "overwhelming",
          "overwhelming"
        ],
        [
          "abundance",
          "abundance"
        ],
        [
          "contested",
          "contested"
        ],
        [
          "scientific",
          "scientific"
        ],
        [
          "information",
          "information"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "infowhelm"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "info-",
        "3": "whelm"
      },
      "expansion": "info- + whelm",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "info- + whelm",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "infowhelm (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020, Heather Houser, Infowhelm: Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data, Columbia University Press, page 2",
          "text": "Artists entangle epistemologies by turning scientific information into a representational device in its own right. That is, information becomes a distinct aesthetic element and a space of interpretive activity that diagnoses infowhelm—and, in some cases, even reproduces it—and experiments with ways of managing it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Pierre-Louis Patoine, “How Sugarcane Accelerated Semiosis During Industrial Moderity, and How We Can Slow Down with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, in Yogi Hale Hendlin, Jonathan Hope, editors, Food and Medicine: A Biosemiotic Perspective, Springer, page 72",
          "text": "If a change in our diet can potentially modulate the individual impact of glucotoxicity, can another semiotic regime remedy infowhelm?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Rachel Dreyfus, Anna Price, “How companies and organizations can overcome ‘infowhelm’ and motivate action for the planet”, in Quirk's Media",
          "text": "How can society overcome the paralysis caused by “infowhelm” and denial? As with most complex challenges, one size does not fit all.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An overwhelming abundance of contested scientific information."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "overwhelming",
          "overwhelming"
        ],
        [
          "abundance",
          "abundance"
        ],
        [
          "contested",
          "contested"
        ],
        [
          "scientific",
          "scientific"
        ],
        [
          "information",
          "information"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "infowhelm"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.