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noun
One who gathers, analyzes, interprets and uses information, possibly as a career.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
One who practices informationism.
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History
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.
