It is known as Information Science, basically analyzing and developing models for how information is produced, distributed, and used. The field was mostly about analyzing citation patterns in paper journals back then but she started out doing research on hypertext and has been focussing on the Web for the last 10 or 15 years.
Can you believe studying information and intelligence ... as if a portion of it could be all bent out of shape in the etude?
Thus terrorists could make people fear intelligence and put there emotional psyches on ignore?