#KeytermsOfPublicHistory 1/ 13 So, I promised a sneak peak into the terms we've discussed in our book and we start with We start this series with one of the most colourful, dazzling (and sometimes hard to pronounce) words: #Authenticity! www.degruyter.com/document/doi... - ThreadSky

cgpublichistory.bsky.social • 16 days ago

#KeytermsOfPublicHistory
1/ 13 So, I promised a sneak peak into the terms we've discussed in our book and we start with We start this series with one of the most colourful, dazzling (and sometimes hard to pronounce) words: #Authenticity!
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111460727/html

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cgpublichistory.bsky.social•16 days ago

2/13 #Authenticity: So, what does it mean? Well: you’ve all been to exhibitions and were sure: this object is real, really old, really precious. Or: You may have seen a movie and thought: this is what it must have looked like. You may have played a video game and thought, this really is authentic..

cgpublichistory.bsky.social•16 days ago

3/13 So, in understanding #authenticity as a keyterm of #publichistory research, we ask one major question: How can we use the term authenticity as a tool for analysis?
That requires, that we do understand how scientists from different disciplines have defined and understood authenticity...

cgpublichistory.bsky.social•16 days ago

4/13 ..But it also means, we have to ask, what people (users, visitors, consumers) mean, when they experience something as #authentic. In the #KeytermsofPublicHistory, we take you down the rabbit hole: we start with an introduction of the history of the word authenticity.

cgpublichistory.bsky.social•16 days ago

5/13 We show you, how, for a long time, it was only understood as a quality of an object: this document is from a certain time, place and author. This is a process, we call #authentification.

cgpublichistory.bsky.social•16 days ago

6/13 It can be reached by following scientific regulated, methodical steps (in my field this is part of the historical method). This is important as long as it is about research. The moment you want to #communicate it as history, ...

cgpublichistory.bsky.social•16 days ago

7/13 ...the outcome of this research has to be mediated as real, truthful or #authentic. So, the research field of #authenticity shows different angles here: wen can ask:
1. Who #authorizes (via knowledge, education, experience, title) something as authentic.

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