decontextualization
- a word derived from contextualization.
- a word derived from decontextualize.
Example Sentences
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Videos from TikTok may be particularly susceptible to this kind of decontextualization, because TikTok is assumed to tell us something about the teenagers.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2020
Remaining mindful of the impact of decontextualization might seem like a small shift, with an even smaller payout.
From Time ● Jun. 29, 2017
They’re really fake news sites, posting scary stories and capitalizing on the decontextualization of Facebook’s news feed to trick people into sharing them widely.
From The Verge ● Oct. 22, 2014
At the core of the surveillance state lies the principle of decontextualization.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2014
Indeed, Žižek undercuts himself with the very first sentence of his essay, writing that “the way to test a great work of art is to ask how it survives decontextualization, transposition into a new context.”
From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2012
