 There is little research that is not impacted in some way on or through the Internet. The Internet, as a field, a tool, and a venue, has specific and far-reaching ethical issues. Internet research ethics is a subdiscipline that fits across many disciplines, ranging from social sciences, arts and humanities, medical/biomedical, and natural sciences. Extant ethical frameworks, including  consequentialism,  deontology,  virtue ethics,  and  feminist ethics,  have contributed to the ways in which ethical issues in Internet research are considered and evaluated.