Prescriptive and proscriptive ethical duties and obligations for the academic researching of cyberspace or the ‘internet’ are not significantly different to those applying to traditional qualitative and/or quantitative research in human and animal communities. There are areas of consensus about about right and wrong and good and bad in relation to researching and researchers. In the UK there are also legal considerations particularly in any research concerning the process of establishing and developing human relationships online. There are also well-established research centres and journals exploring internet and cyberspace ethics and many academic institutions have publicly published their own guidelines.