"information ecology" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is generally used to describe an area of study that focuses on how information systems impact people and the environment. For example, "The professor specializes in information ecology and is leading the way in understanding the implications of technology on our planet."
"Information ecology examines the contexts of information behaviour by analogy with ecological habitats and niches, identifying behaviours in biological terms such as 'foraging'" (Bawden and Robinson 2012 p.199).
It's still an advanced information ecology and yet it doesn't have the same widespread broadband access.
Information Ecology is not currently accepting new students.
An information ecology is a system of people, practices, technologies, and values in a local environment.
The Information Ecology group explores ways to connect our physical environments with information resources.
It also considers how the new information ecology affects behaviors of states in the international system.
The bipartisan Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy found that communities need robust news and information ecologies if people are to be informed and engaged, and if they are to solve public problems and improve their own lives.
Claiming a middle ground, Bonnie Nardi and Vicki O'Day call for responsible, informed engagement with technology in local settings, which they call information ecologies.
If consumer choice is not enough, and transparency is necessary but not sufficient, Crawford argues we need to look for political levers, as well as for collective, co-created models that change information ecologies.
It will result not in the infotopia that the prophets conjure up but in one in a long series of new information ecologies, all of them challenging, in which readers, writers, and producers of text have learned to survive.
[A] new and refreshing perspective on our technologically dependent society.... Information Ecologies is an antidote to our current infection: our unquestioning acceptance of, and dependence upon, technology.
