infowhelm

English

Etymology

info- +‎ whelm

Noun

infowhelm (uncountable)

1. An overwhelming abundance of contested scientific information.
   • 2020, Heather Houser, Infowhelm: Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data, Columbia University Press, page 2:

     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.

   • 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^[1], Springer, page 72:

     If a change in our diet can potentially modulate the individual impact of glucotoxicity, can another semiotic regime remedy infowhelm?

   • 2022, Rachel Dreyfus, Anna Price, “How companies and organizations can overcome ‘infowhelm’ and motivate action for the planet”, in Quirk's Media‎^[2]:

     How can society overcome the paralysis caused by “infowhelm” and denial? As with most complex challenges, one size does not fit all.