screenshot supremacyscreenshots 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 ...
thick screenshotsscreenshots can be more valuable with more added metadata in order to recreate the entire context of the screenshot. this could provide much more seamless revisits of place and process - people often ‘save’ the entire context through simply leaving browser tabs ‘open’ - mental clutter, volatile and heavy on processing, but traditional bookmarks don’t save enough of the context/arrangement of multiple sites or applications/specific semantics of the task at hand, or internal program ‘steps’ required by monolithic web apps screenshots contextualised, principled, from positionality of author, not-auto, deliberately captured, from private areas, logins required, etc discussion of perspective-based screenshotting - huangIRCHIVERInformationCentricPersonal2025 (Hand, 2022) discusses ethnographies including thick descriptions of the domestic settings surrounding photographs as context - thick description also discusses their perspective of the behaviour in context. this is akin to adding extra context to screenshots - thick screenshots. Resources Screenshot Situations (Hand, 2022) ^24a363 ...