screenshot supremacy

screenshots are a common method of content collection due to:

• ease, few actions required
• comparable methods across devices (usually a single click or physical button)
• compatibility of tools across applications
• portability of image data types
• human readability of data
• refinding is quicker from images than text but:
• image-only screenshots in circulation have often lost important metadata
• manipulated screenshots, unfaithful reproduction
• lost context
• establishing a new form of data rather than a continuation
• separate instances remain unlinked
• even ‘search by image’ isn’t particularly effective