Cheney, George2013-12-022013-12-022008-082008Cheney, G. (2008). Encountering the ethics of engaged scholarship. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 36(3), 281-288.https://hdl.handle.net/10289/8268This 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.enapplied researchcommunity engagementorganizational communicationresearch ethicsJournal Article10.1080/00909880802172293