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Digital image output of computer display

A screenshot is an analog or digital image that shows the contents of a computer display. A screenshot is created by a (film) camera shooting the screen or the operating system or software running on the device powering the display. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: ScreenshotA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Platform rules as privacy tools: The influence of screenshot accountability and trust on privacy managementInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Text FailsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Usability Engineering for GIS: Learning from a ScreenshotCited 70 times
  5. Go sideways: ShareXA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: ScreencastA closely related topic

📖 Definitions

Noun An image of computer or smartphone screen output at a given moment in time.

Verb To take a screenshot of something.

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

🆕 Influential since 2022

📚 Books worth reading

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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