This post is a restatement of the oft-made argument that recording may make some people uncomfortable and that therefore their consent ought to be sought. There's another post by Justin Weinberg on the same subject today. To quote Per Axbom, "Consider and think through needs, power structures, vulnerability and inclusion before you risk normalizing something that can lead to people feeling uncomfortable, unwilling to participate or unwilling to contribute." Fair enough. But the same argument applies in reverse. I've been a student or employee representative on management committees enough to know that secrecy is a powerful enabler of misconduct and worse. Demanding the meeting be secret was a way of taking control over what I could say about what happened. The same applies to classrooms; for some, being 'safe' means being free to harass, manipulate and misrepresent. My default is to open, and I feel people should require my consent before taking something secret.
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