She received her PhD from the Department of Communication Studies at Linköping University, Sweden. Her publications include Creating a Sense of Community. Experiences from a Swedish Web Chat, and she is a co-author of the edited collections, Digital Borderlands: Cultural Studies of Identity and Interactivity on the Internet and Cyberfeminism in Northern Lights. Gender and Digital Media in a Nordic Context. She is also a co-author of a Swedish textbook on internet research methods. Her research interests include computer-mediated communication, social interaction, youth culture, and gender and identity.