4.0658 R: A Word for a Vice (9/84)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 30 Oct 90 20:37:23 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0658. Tuesday, 30 Oct 1990.


(1) Date: 29 Oct 90 23:00:37 EDT (14 lines)
From: SJPORTE@asc.upenn.edu
Subject: re: 4.0652 Qs: ... Word for a Vice

(2) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 90 23:15-0500 (9 lines)
From: WIEBEM@QUCDN
Subject: re: 4.0652 Qs: ... Word for a Vice

(3) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 90 00:41:18 EST (5 lines)
From: Robert Hollander <bobh@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Subject: re: 4.0652 Qs: ... Word for a Vice

(4) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 90 07:30 EDT (13 lines)
From: "Leslie Z. Morgan" <MORGAN@LOYVAX>
Subject: re: 4.0652 Qs: ... Word for a Vice

(5) Date: 30 Oct 90 05:43 -0330 (5 lines)
From: HANS ROLLMANN (hans@kean.ucs.mun.ca)
Subject: RE: New Word

(6) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 90 10:47 EST (9 lines)
From: "Peter D. Junger" <JUNGER@CWRU>
Subject: Willard's search for a word

(7) Date: 30 October 90, 10:16:45 EST (6 lines)
From: ANDREWO at UTOREPAS

(8) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 90 12:06 PST (10 lines)
From: KESSLER <IME9JFK@UCLAMVS.BITNET>
Subject: Willard's search for a word

(9) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 90 09:34:55 PDT (13 lines)
From: Steve Condit <STEVEC@FHCRCVM>
Subject: infomange

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Date: 29 Oct 90 23:00:37 EDT
From: SJPORTE@asc.upenn.edu
Subject: re: 4.0652 Qs: Theory of Taste; Word for a Vice (2/54)

Re: new word, please

The best termI I've heard to describe what you said is "news junkie,"
although that's a mite informal. So is the only other term I can come
up with, infoholic. Perhaps something can be done with word play; I
find the word "videot" (or "vidiot, " depending on whose spelling you
use) to be very useful.

Jeff Porten, Annenberg School for Communication

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Date: Mon, 29 Oct 90 23:15-0500
From: WIEBEM@QUCDN
Subject: 4.0652 Qs: Theory of Taste; Word for a Vice (2/54)

*** Reply to note of 10/29/90 23:06

How about "info-addiction" as a term for Willard's vice?

Mel Wiebe, Queen's U, Kingston, Canada

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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 90 00:41:18 EST
From: Robert Hollander <bobh@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Subject: Re: 4.0652 Qs: Theory of Taste; Word for a Vice (2/54)

Does Willar suffer from infomania or is he a dataphiliac? Stay tuned.

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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 90 07:30 EDT
From: "Leslie Z. Morgan" <MORGAN@LOYVAX>
Subject: RE: 4.0652 Qs: Theory of Taste; Word for a Vice

Re, word for a vice.

This is not the word you're looking for, but is related to it.
Some time ago I saw "intellectualepsy" or something similar (I
even wrote it down, with definition, but cannot seem to find it).
Perhaps info-epsy would indicate periodic attacks of desire for
knowledge?

Leslie Morgan

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Date: 30 Oct 90 05:43 -0330
From: HANS ROLLMANN (hans@kean.ucs.mun.ca)
Subject: RE: New Word

HANS ROLLMANN.

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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 90 10:47 EST
From: "Peter D. Junger" <JUNGER@CWRU>
Subject: Willard's search for a word

How about INFOMANIA?

Peter D. Junger
CWRU Law School, Cleveland, Ohio
BITNET: JUNGER@CWRU INTERNET: JUNGER@CWRU.CWRU.EDU (or PDJ2@PO.CWRU.EDU)
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Date: 30 October 90, 10:16:45 EST
From: ANDREWO at UTOREPAS
Subject: information overload and appetite

re: information overload and appetite

How about infomania?

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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 90 12:06 PST
From: KESSLER <IME9JFK@UCLAMVS.BITNET>
Subject: Re: 4.0652 Qs: Theory of Taste; Word for a Vice (2/54)

Dear Willard: you are talking about the need for stimulation, a thing I
have noticed began with the tv age, although we left radios on in the
40's too. The need is laid down early on, and the nervous system needs
to be stimulated with media transmitted noise or anxiety sets in. I
would think it a sort of Infodependency, or Info-addiction. Infocrave.
Something to describe it medically. As in Info-fix...? Jascha K.

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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 90 09:34:55 PDT
From: Steve Condit <STEVEC@FHCRCVM>
Subject: infomange

"infomange" forms an image in my mind of a mangy dog, no doubt my limit-
ed vocabulary. I wonder it the pathological need for information is not
for the information but for the anesthesia that too much information
provides. And/or to provide the rational ("I need more information
before . . .) for avoiding decision making, Responsibility, etc.
Perhaps this new word should include echos of the themes of "control"
and "addiction" that are so popular in US culture today, (Is this true
in other high tech cultures?) and the notion of mindless greed disquised
as rationality . . .