Encountering the Ethics of Engaged Scholarship

Abstract

This commentary offers reflections on the preceding articles and frames ethics of community engagment by (organizational) communication scholars in terms of broader issues about the enterprises of applied research. The brief essay considers how we approach and position ethics (writ large) in our work and then offers the following dialectics for consideration: openness versus protection, privilege versus equality, distance versus empathy, listening versus advising, and representation versus intervention.

Keywords:

• Applied Research
• Community Engagement
• Organizational Communication
• Research Ethics

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George Cheney

George Cheney is Professor of Communication, Director of Peace and Conflict Studies, and Director of the Tanner Human Rights Center, all at the University of Utah. Also, he is Adjunct Professor of Management Communication at The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand