Credibility

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Credibility is the believability of a statement, action, or source, and the ability of the observer to believe that statement.

In public speaking, Aristotle considered the credibility of the speaker, his character, to be one of the forms of proof. Contemporary social science research has generally found that there are several dimensions of credibility. Berlo and Lemert (1961) noted three: competence, trustworthiness and dynamism.

Credibility online has become an important topic since 1999, as the web is increasingly an information resource. The [Persuasive Technology Lab] at Stanford University has studied [web credibility] and outlined the principle components of online credibility and a general theory called [Prominence-Interpretation Theory]. This theory applies generally to credibility assessments.

Music slang

Slang terms include cred, street cred, and indie credibility. The last of which is crucial for an independent band to be critically well received. For example, many critics, such as Stephen Thomas Erlewine in his lengthy review, decried Liz Phair's loss of credibility after the release of her eponymous album, featuring co-production and co-songwriting by teenpop producers of The Matrix as well as indie-credible Pete Yorn and Michael Beckham.

In music, credibility is an ideological concept and may involve notions of universality, complexity, and originality, and [[Wiktionary:autonomy|autonomy]] (Green, 1999). Also involved is [[wiktionary:authenticity|authenticity]]. Financial and artistic autonomy is probably the most vital for indie credibility, the loss of which is called selling out. http://www.excellentguide.com

Sources

Berlo, David K. and James B. Lemert, "A Factor Analytic Study of the Dimensions of Source Credibility." Paper presented at the 1961 convention of the SAA, New York.
Green, Lucy (1999) "Ideology", Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture. Malden, Massachusetts. ISBN 0631212639.

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