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Why Food Blogs Aren't About Food Alexandra Rodney, PhD is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Her dissertation was an analysis of food and fitness discourses in women’s healthy living media in order to understand how health, gender and culture intersect within the contemporary healthy-living mediascape. She has contributed to publications about family food habits, celebrity chefs, ethical eating, and recently co-authored an an article on award-winning women’s food blogs in Food, Culture & Society. Her food-related work focuses on how online discourse shapes and reflects the meaning of bodies, health, class, and identities.