She grew up in Norway with Australian parents, so she is fluent in both languages. Her research is on ways in which people tell stories online, looking at electronic literature, blogging, games and participatory media. Her specialties are blog research, social media, new media research, narratology, teaching with blogs, lectures on blogs and new media. In 2006 she won the Meltzer Award for Excellence in the Dissemination of Research, mainly for the work on her blog. In June 2008 she published the book “Blogging”, and she is the co-editor of “Digital Culture, Play and Identity: A World of Worldcraft Reader, which was published in May 2008. She was a visiting scholar here at RMIT several times between 2000 and 2002.