About the author

Dr Sarah Pedersen is a Reader at the Department of Communication, Marketing and Media at The Robert Gordon University (RGU), Aberdeen, Scotland. She is also a member of the Aberdeen Business School’s Research Institute for Management, Governance and Society.

Having previously worked as an editor in educational and academic publishing in Cambridge, she joined RGU in 1996 as a Lecturer in Publishing Studies. Her PhD investigated women’s use of letters to the editor in Aberdeen daily newspapers 1900–18, and she has presented conference papers and published widely on this topic.

In recent years her interest in women’s use of the media has moved to focus on computer-mediated communication. In particular, she has investigated women’s ...

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