As is often the case in today's world, snippets of a story are presented with less than complete information and without much context. We are awash in information without context, willful deceptions disguised as opinions, and bombastic coverage of news and events that lacks the nuance and perspective it deserves. An innocuous statement can take on a different meaning without the full context of how and where and when it was said. It's an imperfect art, this reporting business. It's not that you shouldn't believe what you see or read. What is shown and printed is often the truth. But it's only part of the story. The key, for both media and consumer, is to always be aware of that.

Avaya is making it easier for the content/context of any interaction on any channel to be seamlessly transferred to another.

In fining stations for fleeting expletives the FCC has claimed that certain words are in-and-of-themselves indecent without regard to context, such that the f-word immediately and unambiguously evokes its most offensive sexual context when uttered. Broadcasters argue otherwise, noting that the context of fleeting expletives is important in judging indecency, noting that most of the time the words are not intended to refer at all to sexual or excretory function.

Things targeted to a group of friends that have the larger context but are available to the general public without that context can be skewed to a strange point of view.

We hear a lot lately about the aging of the Baby Boom generation, usually in the context of the strain all those old boomers are putting on Social Security and Medicare. But the rapid aging of the American population is good news for lots of industries, including those who make wheelchairs, bifocals and hearing aids. Consumer product strategy (CPS) professionals must leverage context to create and deliver product experiences that enhance the overall perceived value of a product. Men want context for what they buy. That information is now available. It's not, 'I'm wearing these jeans because Brad Pitt bought them,' it's more, 'I'm wearing these jeans because they were made in a factory in Raleigh, N.C., using traditional techniques.'

These numerical indices of unrestrained self-enrichment by the corporate-financial elite provide the appropriate context for considering the unprecedented wave of budget-cutting taking place across the country.

By exploring what breasts in a male mean to the individual, we produce an understanding of the social context for distress from gynecomastia. From this understanding, we derive hypotheses about who might be most distressed from gynecomastia and strategies for alleviating this distress.

All at once, I felt every cell in my body command me to create a context for this idea to come alive, to unleash the conditions for this ontological liberation to manifest and to surround myself with a group of people who felt the same compulsive urge to give power to the imagination.

It was the perfect sociocultural context for accepting Shaffer's depiction of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as a precociously talented, fashion-victim brat with a potty mouth and a hyperactive libido. Never mind that Shaffer's dandyish, infantile, self-delighted Mozart -- a sort of peruked Pee-wee Herman -- had questionable basis in historical fact.

By searching in the adjacent genomic context of the two-component signal transduction system we predicted the existence of many putative new bacteriocins' maturation pathways and some of them were only exclusive to a group of Streptococcus.

She acknowledges that she has "beauty privilege," but she's still trying to reconcile how she feels within the greater social context of beauty, her likes/dislikes/insecurities about herself, and how to remain authentic.

My general advice, without knowing the context, would be to go cautiously.