Omission vs Fauxtography - What's the difference?
omission | fauxtography |
The act of omitting.
The act of neglecting to perform an action one has an obligation to do.
Something deleted or left out.
Something not done or neglected.
(grammar) The shortening of a word or phrase, using an apostrophe ( ' ) to replace the missing letters, often used to approximate the sound of speech or a specific dialect.
(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,
* 2007 November 5, Aaron Peckham, Mo’ Urban Dictionary: Ridonkulous Street Slang Defined ,
* 2007 November 28, Cynthia Baron, Adobe Photoshop Forensics: Sleuths, Truths, and Fauxtography ,
* 2008 , David D. Perlmutter, Blogwars ,
fauxtography
Staged, doctored, or misleadingly cropped or labelled photographs. English blends
As nouns the difference between omission and fauxtography
is that omission is the act of omitting 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.omission
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(en noun)Usage notes
Following are common examples of omission using an apostrophe: : six o’clock (shortening of “six of the clock”) : The high school class of ’69 (shortening of “1969”) : O’er there (shortening of “over there”) * From Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : *: S’pose people left money laying around where he was—what did he do? He collared it. S’pose he contracted to do a thing; and you paid him, and didn’t set down there and see that he done it—what did he do? He always done the other thing. S’pose he opened his mouth—what then? If he didn't shut it up powerful quick, he'd lose a lie, every time. That’s the kind of a bug Henry was; and if we’d ’a’ had him along ’stead of our kings, he’d ’a’ fooled that town a heap worse than ourn done.See also
* contraction ----fauxtography
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(-)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.
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.
main title(illustrated edition; Course Technology Printer; ISBN 1598634054, 9781598634051):
- Adobe Photoshop Forensics: Sleuths, Truths, and Fauxtography
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