Movement and Containment in Texts and Hypertexts
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- Adaptation: Contents Aware of Containers
- Remediation: Creativity and Falsehood in Digital Images
- Structurally Non-Identical Copies: Creating a New Container by Moving into It
- Transition: Creating a Temporary Container
- Citation: Inserting Old Content Fragments into New Containers
- Isolation: Decapsulating Pages, Stories, Data
- Integration: Contents, Containers, Contexts
Structurally Non-Identical Copies: Creating a New Container by Moving into It
Like wikis, digital photos are likely to provide accessible sub-surface description about how they have developed.
Which purslane flower is fake: pink or blue? At the surface level, if you know a bit about purslane (the image's content), you might know that the blue color is highly unlikely, and that the pinkish tinge on the leaf at the upper left is not likely, either. Below the surface, the digital photos' file properties give clues that don't require knowledge of botany (just access to the image's digital container): the pink flower's image was produced by a camera and the blue flower's image was produced by photo-editing software, so the blue flower is probably the fake. Not everything describing the pink flower is true, though: "Date Picture Taken" is false. I let the clock battery die in that camera; every photo it takes is now labeled internally with the same, false date. Maybe the camera lies, after all.