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Contextualization vs Recontextualization - What's the difference?

contextualization | recontextualization |

As nouns the difference between contextualization and recontextualization

is that contextualization is the act or process of putting information into context; making sense of information from the situation or location in which the information was found while recontextualization is the process or result of recontextualizing.

contextualization

English

Alternative forms

* contextualisation

Noun

(en noun)
  • the act or process of putting information into context; making sense of information from the situation or location in which the information was found.

    • recontextualization

    English

    Noun

  • The process or result of recontextualizing.
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