1. Scenario 1 Project title: Rural experiences of 'gay' sexual identity. Research questions: What is the role of the internet in providing an outlet through which rural gay males can freely express their sexual identity? Research methods: Covert observation of specific gay chat rooms of which you are a member, followed by synchronous interviews of self-selected sample gained through a message transmitted to mailists. Ethical issues?

2. Scenario 2 Project title: Participatory research and internet activism: how activists involved in environmental and social change politics utilise the internet – their internet activism. Research questions: Exploring the opportunities and tensions the internet offers to activists. What is the role that the internet plays in the broader dynamics of activism and activists everyday lives? Research methods: Onsite face-to-face interviews, followed by online email interviews with participants recruited during onsite research. Ethical issues?

3. Scenario 3 Project title: Social exclusion and the internet in Tanzania Research questions: Who is using the internet in rural Tanzania, and what for? Research methods: Online questionnaire of participants using a mutli-purpose telecenter, observation of the multi-purpose telecenter, followed by face-to-face questionnaire of non-users. Ethics?

4. Informed consent How will you gain informed consent? How can the participant withdrawal from the research? Is it easier or harder to withdraw compared to face-to-face research? Is deception a defensible research strategy? Can 'lurking' as socialisation into the online culture of a group be an important prerequisite for research?

5. Confidentiality How can confidentiality be assured and how might this vary with the nature of the research venue? (e.g. Chat rooms compared to weblogs, webpages, emails to large listservs). How might subject anonymity be achieved in practice? How can you improve data security? Can you promise that your electronic information will not be accessed and used by others?

6. Privacy Can you agree in your groups whether the data you collect will be public or private? How might participant expectations of privacy vary with specific research method used? Is alienation a more useful concept to use when considering ORE?

7. International inequalities How might the digital divide limit who can we 'speak' to and whose lives we can engage with? Is this an important ethical issue? Can you assume everyone has the ability to speak freely on the internet? Any censorship issues? What languages are we going to use to communicate our research? How might this limit who can we speak to? What online power inequalities might be significant (race, gender, sexuality, age, economic position)?