ABSTRACT
Digital media ethics is a transdisciplinary area that focuses on how ethical issues, standards, and practices related to communication, writing, and interaction have changed in the digital age. Digital media ethics scholarship seldom references rhetoric explicitly, but rhetoric is deeply intertwined with questions of digital media production and ethics. Designing for accessibility is as much an ethical principle for rhetoric as it is a design principle for the computer industry. Privacy, consent, and transparency of data collection and usage are key issues for all digital writers and for digital media ethicists. The debate is as much about business and economic policy as it is about ethical principles; it is an issue that pertains to intellectual property law and regulation as well as to the rhetorical ethics of digital media interaction. Digital media ethics is the realm where rhetoric and ethics, interaction and writing, technology and public policy all intersect.
