Ethics, consent & accountability · Working

Extractive storytelling

ELI5

Taking stories, access or cultural material from people while concentrating control and benefit elsewhere.

Used in conversation

“The review flagged the extractive storytelling in the way the people or material were represented.”

Pitch context

You may encounter “Extractive storytelling” in accessibility, localisation, ethics & ai conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains access, language adaptation, care, provenance and emerging synthetic-media responsibilities.

Sources & evidence · 8

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.