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BY-NC-ND 4.0 license Open Access Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2021

Authenticity

Historical Data Integrity and the Layered Materiality of Digital Objects

From the book Digital Roots

  • Andreas Fickers

Historical Data Integrity and the Layered Materiality of Digital Objects

10.1515/9783110740202.

Abstract

This chapter investigates how digitality has affected the idea, concept, and meaning of authenticity of historical sources. A key question in media history is that of the historical authenticity of mediated representation of the past. Digitization affects the indexical relationship between past realities and their digital “appresentation” and therefore asks for a critical understanding of how digital infrastructures, tools, and technologies affect historical methodology and claims for a new multi-modal literacy.

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