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Modification vs Fauxtography - What's the difference?

modification | fauxtography |

As nouns the difference between modification and fauxtography

is that modification is the act or result of modifying or the condition of being modified 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.

modification

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • the act or result of modifying or the condition of being modified
  • an alteration or adjustment to something
  • * Jim's modification to the radio's tuning resulted in clearer sound.
  • a change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring
  • * Due to his sunbathing, Jim's body experienced modifications : he got a tan.
  • (linguistics) a change to a word when it is borrowed by another language
  • * The Chinese word "kòu tóu" had a modification made to become the English "kowtow" .
  • (linguistics) the change undergone by a word when used in a construction (for instance am'' => '' 'm'' in ''I'm )
  • 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.

    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