ABSTRACT
This chapter explores implications of the shifting and unstable practices for writing in digital spaces, particularly the ethical dimensions of writing in relation to others across linguistic, cultural, and ideological diversities. It considers the rhetorical means by which networked writers engage in a critique of relations of power, recognizing their positions of relative privilege even as they work to decenter those positions. To theorize how people engage in ethically attuned literacy practices, education scholars have increasingly turned toward cosmopolitanism. The chapter also explores the ethical ramifications of writing in digital spaces and cultures, particularly the role that new forms of networked writing can play in creating equitable social change that recognizes people's full human potential and challenges conditions of injustice. The critical cosmopolitan approaches move scholars away from more static notions of shared humanity and toward consideration of the dynamic process of humanizing oneself and others through everyday actions paired with critical reflection.
