This special double issue of the <i>Journal of Mass Media Ethics</i> resulted from the third annual international conference and colloquium on "Virtual Reality and Communication Ethics". Delegates with expertise in cybertechnology were invited from different countries and from universities across the United States. As this agenda-setting special double issue demonstrates, the ethics of Virtual Reality must be worked out in the context of the most advanced research on information technologies, and in terms of a broad and sophisticated understanding of the liberal arts.<br>