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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

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Sources & evidence · 8

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