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Context vs Fauxtography - What's the difference?

context | fauxtography |

As nouns the difference between context and fauxtography

is that context is the surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence while fauxtography is (chiefly|internet) misleading]] presentation of images for [[propaganda|propagandistic or otherwise ulterior purposes, involving staging, deceptive modification, and/or the addition or omission of significant context.

As a verb context

is (obsolete) to knit or bind together; to unite closely.

As an adjective context

is (obsolete) knit or woven together; close; firm.

context

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.
    • In what context did your attack on him happen? - We had a pretty tense relationship at the time, and when he insulted me I snapped.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=September 7 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Moldova 0-5 England , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The display and result must be placed in the context that was it was against a side that looked every bit their Fifa world ranking of 141 - but England completed the job with efficiency to record their biggest away win in 19 years.}}
  • (senseid) (linguistics) The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.
  • (archaeology) The surroundings and environment in which an artifact is found and which may provide important clues about the artifact's function and/or cultural meaning.
  • (mycology) The trama or flesh of a mushroom.

    • Antonyms

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    Derived terms

    () * context-dependent * context-free * context-sensitive * in context, compare in isolation * keyword in context, KWIC * keyword out of context, KWOC * out of context * take out of context

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "context")

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To knit or bind together; to unite closely.
    • (Feltham)
  • * R. Junius
    • The whole world's frame, which is contexted only by commerce and contracts.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Knit or woven together; close; firm.
  • * Derham
    • The coats, without, are context and callous.
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    fauxtography

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (chiefly, Internet) Misleading]] presentation of images for [[propaganda, propagandistic or otherwise ulterior purposes, involving staging, deceptive modification, and/or the addition or omission of significant context.
  • * 2006 , The New Atlantis , issues 12–14, page 146 (Washington, D.C.: Ethics and Public Policy Center):
    • Also, fauxtography , coined by bloggers writing about the Israel–Lebanon conflict in summer 2006 to describe both the deceptive modification of pictures by newswire photojournalists and the intentional staging of tragic scenes for propagandistic photos in the media.
  • * 2007 November 5, Aaron Peckham, Mo’ Urban Dictionary: Ridonkulous Street Slang Defined , page 103] ([http://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/products/?isbn=0740768751 Andrews McMeel Publishing; ISBN 0740768751, 9780740768750):
    • Various bloggers have uncovered several cases of fauxtography in Reuters’ photo coverage of the Israel–Hezbollah conflict.
  • * 2007 November 28, Cynthia Baron, Adobe Photoshop Forensics: Sleuths, Truths, and Fauxtography , main title (illustrated edition; Course Technology Printer; ISBN 1598634054, 9781598634051):
    • Adobe Photoshop Forensics: Sleuths, Truths, and Fauxtography
  • * 2008 , David D. Perlmutter, Blogwars , page xiii] ([http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/?view=usa&view=usa&ci=0195305574 Oxford University Press; ISBN 0195305574, 9780195305579):
    • Bloggers noted that when, in February 2005, California’s Barbara Boxer gave a speech on the floor of the Senate, she held in her hands notes that were a printout from BradDeLong.com, the eponymous blog by a professor of economics at UC, Berkeley. Conversely, mainstream photojournalism was shaken to its core by right-wing bloggers who pointed out errors, malfeasance, inconsistencies, miscaptions, and outright fakery in press “fauxtography ” from the 2006 Israel–Lebanon war.

    Related terms

    * fauxtograph

    References

    * “ fauxtography]” listed in Mo’ Urban Dictionary: Ridonkulous Street Slang Defined by Aaron Peckham (2007; [http://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/products/?isbn=0740768751 Andrews McMeel Publishing; ISBN 0740768751, 9780740768750):
    fauxtography
    Staged, doctored, or misleadingly cropped or labelled photographs. English blends