Media activist research ethics: global approaches to negotiating power in social justice research
Cham:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2020), xxiii, 276 pp.
ISBN 978-3-030-44389-4 (ebook); 978-3-030-44388-7 (print); 978-3-030-44390-0 (print)
"This book maps complex ethical dilemmas in social justice research practices in media and communication. Contributors critically analyse power dynamics that arise when building equitable research relations with media activists, social movements, and cultural producers, considering issues of access, control, affective labour, reciprocal critiques, and movement pedagogies. Authors probe the ethical challenges faced when horizontal relations inadvertently create conflicts leading to oppressive communication; when affective demands generate non-reciprocal relations of care; and when participant anonymity has to be balanced with self-expression and voice. Chapters explore engagements with digital technologies in developing research relations, covering new research practices from horizontal collectives to dialogical auto-ethnography; from community scholarship and pedagogies to decolonising research." (Publisher)
Contents
1 Introduction: Mapping Questions of Power and Ethics in Media Activist Research Practices / Sandra Jeppesen, Paola Sartoretto, 1
I. PRACTICE-BASED PERSPECTIVES ON THE ETHICS OF RESEARCH ACTIVISM
2 Research Ethics: Critical Reflections on Horizontal Media Activism Research Practices / Sandra Jeppesen, 27
3 Dealing with Ethical Dilemmas in Activist Research on Social Movement Media / Paola Sartoretto, Leonardo Custódio, 51
4 Challenges for Social movement Research in the Context of Inequality: The MST in Brazil / Mayrá S. Lima, Solange I. Engelmann, 67
II. DECOLONIZING METHODOLOGIES AND NEGOTIATING COMMUNITY LEARNING
5 Denaturalizing Research Practices: (Re)signifying subject positions through decolonial theories / Vera Martins, Rosane Rosa, 89
6 Disrupting Settler Colonialism and Oppression in Media and Policy-Making: A view from the Community Media Advocacy Centre / Gretchen King, 109
7 Wearing Multiple Reflexive Hats: The Ethical Complexities of Media-oriented Community Engaged Learning / Sandra Smeltzer, 131
III. NEGOTIATING POWER DYNAMICS BETWEEN RESEARCHER AND ACTIVIST POSITIONALITIES
8 The Ethics of Reciprocal Communication / Julia Velkova, 157
9 Researcher Ethics: Between Axiological Reasoning and Scientific Discussion / Gökçe Tuncel, 175
10 Difficult Choices: Application of Feminist Ethics of Care in Action Research / Ekaterina Kalinina, 193
Media Activist Research in the Context of Global Crises
IV. MEDIA ACTIVIST RESEARCH IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL CRISES
11 The Ethics of Media Research with Refugees / Eugenia Siapera, Sara Creta, 221
12 Challenges of Ongoing Conflict Research: Dialogic autoethnography in studies of post-2014 Ukraine / Yuliya Yurchuk, Liudmila Voronova, 249
I. PRACTICE-BASED PERSPECTIVES ON THE ETHICS OF RESEARCH ACTIVISM
2 Research Ethics: Critical Reflections on Horizontal Media Activism Research Practices / Sandra Jeppesen, 27
3 Dealing with Ethical Dilemmas in Activist Research on Social Movement Media / Paola Sartoretto, Leonardo Custódio, 51
4 Challenges for Social movement Research in the Context of Inequality: The MST in Brazil / Mayrá S. Lima, Solange I. Engelmann, 67
II. DECOLONIZING METHODOLOGIES AND NEGOTIATING COMMUNITY LEARNING
5 Denaturalizing Research Practices: (Re)signifying subject positions through decolonial theories / Vera Martins, Rosane Rosa, 89
6 Disrupting Settler Colonialism and Oppression in Media and Policy-Making: A view from the Community Media Advocacy Centre / Gretchen King, 109
7 Wearing Multiple Reflexive Hats: The Ethical Complexities of Media-oriented Community Engaged Learning / Sandra Smeltzer, 131
III. NEGOTIATING POWER DYNAMICS BETWEEN RESEARCHER AND ACTIVIST POSITIONALITIES
8 The Ethics of Reciprocal Communication / Julia Velkova, 157
9 Researcher Ethics: Between Axiological Reasoning and Scientific Discussion / Gökçe Tuncel, 175
10 Difficult Choices: Application of Feminist Ethics of Care in Action Research / Ekaterina Kalinina, 193
Media Activist Research in the Context of Global Crises
IV. MEDIA ACTIVIST RESEARCH IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL CRISES
11 The Ethics of Media Research with Refugees / Eugenia Siapera, Sara Creta, 221
12 Challenges of Ongoing Conflict Research: Dialogic autoethnography in studies of post-2014 Ukraine / Yuliya Yurchuk, Liudmila Voronova, 249
