Abstract

Compelled Nonuse of Information promotes oligarchic control of a populace. This paper presents guidelines for identifying and responding to oligarchic control that results from CNI. CNI is a group of information behaviors that lie beyond the control of the individual. The six CNI types, which incorporate many sub-types, are: intrinsic somatic barriers, socio-environmental barriers, authoritarian control, threshold knowledge shortfall, attention shortfall, and information filtering