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Ethics, consent & accountability · Working

Participant agency

ELI5

A participant’s meaningful capacity to understand, choose, act and express their own interests within the production relationship.

Used in conversation

“The production plan needs to address the participant agency before work begins.”

Pitch context

You may encounter “Participant agency” 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.