Meanings
comparative more infovorous · superlative most infovorous
- Pertaining to the consumption of information, involving learning and gathering knowledge.
Mathieu’s gesture of keeping a diary comes naturally when set against the background of infovorous danger — of the information-addicted individual.
2018, M Miheț, “The Prose of Matei Vișniec”, in Annals of the University of Oradea, Romanian Language & Literature Fascicule, volume 252 more examples
When people are trying to satisfy a need for food, are avoiding harm or are otherwise involved in some goal-oriented behavior, then the infovorous instincts take a less active role.
2006 May-June, Irving Biederman, Edward A Vessel, “Perceptual pleasure and the brain: A novel theory explains why the brain craves information and seeks it through the senses”, in American scientist, volume 94, number 3In this paper, I want to argue that the world consists of a series of 'intelligencings', to use a rather clumsy phrase, intelligencings which vary substantially in their reach and understanding and interaction, and which have geographies we can and should map – 'infovorous' geographies that can and do teach us how to be, and that therefore have an important ethical dimension.
2017, Chris Philo, Theory and Methods: Critical Essays in Human Geography
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