Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
SIGDOC '22: Proceedings of the 40th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
Publisher
Association of Computing Machinery
Publication Date
10-6-2022
First Page
90
Last Page
95
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Abstract
After describing the content and implementation of an anti-racist scholarly review training informed by recent scholarship in technical communication (TC), the authors reflect on an unanticipated outcome of that training: a participant using language from the training in an attempt to silence an author they were reviewing. We analyze this experience through a framework of modern virtue ethics scholarship and explore ways to cultivate more ethical peer review practices. Drawing upon elements of ethical self-cultivation articulated by Vallor, we use concepts of moral habituation, relational understanding, and reflective self-examination to understand how to cultivate more ethical, reflexive peer review processes.
Recommended Citation
Rachel Welton Bryson and Sam Clem. 2022. Cultivating Ethics in the Peer Review Process. In The 40th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (SIGDOC ’22), October 06–08, 2022, Boston, MA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3513130.3558982