Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Media programming featuring celebrities and presented using journalistic techniques such as interviews, commentaries, and reviews.
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- noun A form of
programming (cinematic ,television ,live action , etc.) that provides both information and entertainment; also known as soft news, the information in infotainment programming consists of mostlycelebrity news andhuman drama .
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- noun a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event
Etymologies
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Examples
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The latest victim of infotainment is education and specifically, the scrutiny of teachers.
Pam Lowe: It's Time for the Experts to Step up to the Mic Pam Lowe 2010
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All these flowing bits and bytes and streams of data, this nebulae of infotainment is concrete and absolute!
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The latest victim of infotainment is education and specifically, the scrutiny of teachers.
Pam Lowe: It's Time for the Experts to Step up to the Mic Pam Lowe 2010
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The lowered guidance, wrote Banc of America analyst Ronald A. Tadross in a Thursday note to investors, is likely driven by a staggered phase-in of Harman's backlog in "infotainment" -- the combination of information and entertainment technology.
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It is called infotainment, entertaining soundbites that inform you about a product or event.
The Future Of Online Advertising: Entertainment vs. Information - Publishing 2.0 2008
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What the industry calls infotainment systems combine safety elements such as emergency response and door unlocking with entertainment through connectivity to portable music devices.
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- Intel rolls out four new Atom processors, designed to fit into a wider variety of devices and applications, including mobile and wireless devices such as smartphones, ecotechnologies, industrial-strength applications and so-called infotainment devices in cars.
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- Intel rolls out four new Atom processors, designed to fit into a wider variety of devices and applications, including mobile and wireless devices such as smartphones, ecotechnologies, industrial-strength applications and so-called infotainment devices in cars.
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It serves as a key source of information and entertainment, known as infotainment, as well as other mobility exploiting applications while being our side - by our side every hour of the day, every day of the week.
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There was limited use of "infotainment," (using entertainment, such as television shows to pass key health and hygiene messages), even though some "infotainment" pilot projects appeared effective.
John Sauer: Report from South Asia: Is Universal WASH Access in Reach? 2010
misterpolly commented on the word infotainment
A close relative is "infommercial" = a TV commercial spot purporting to give information.
January 30, 2008
markwords commented on the word infotainment
Pseudonews. Content provided by commercial media companies which compromises the concept of objective news journalism by contaminating it with "entertainment" values for the purpose of increasing the audience for the content. Example: "Cable news has become infotainment, bearing almost no resemblance to any objective assessment of the events that matter on a given day or to the accurate reporting of them."
July 7, 2009
alexz commented on the word infotainment
Spotted in a linux presentation: "Auto industry is way behind smartphones. 36mos to produce infotainment system."
February 14, 2017