She has sustained an academic, lecturing, career and been here for 15 of her 34 years; I find it most unlikely that she failed ,through poor language skills, to comprehend the judge's specific instructions regarding using the internet. That she might not have been paying attention might just be credible, but in such a case her contempt of the court would be equally egregious. Frankly I reckon she deserved what she got.

JackC, I don't know whether you are liable for UK jury duty, but I don't think you can get out of it (if eligible) on grounds of disinclination.