Nora Suren
PhD candidate (ABD)
Diversity Predoctoral Fellow, Women’s and Gender Studies and Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bio
Nora Suren is a PhD candidate (all but dissertation) in Communication at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a Diversity Pre-Doctoral Fellow at MIT. She studies social media cultures, influencers/digital content creators, and platformization of creative labor using digital ethnographic methods and in-depth interviews. Her research interests also include issues of identity, femininity, and social advocacy.
Interests
Social media cultures, influencers, platformization, identity, femininity, social advocacy
Education
- North Carolina State University: MS in Communication
- Istanbul University: BA in English Literature
Publications
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Yalin, A., Suren, N., & Ong, J.C. (2024). “Medical populism, nationalism, and parody: Unmasking digital dissent in Turkey’s COVID-19 landscape”. In Briant, E. & Bakir, V. (eds.) Routledge Handbook on the Influence Industry. London & New York: Routledge.
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Suren, N. (2022). “This is the kind of influencer we want to see!” A study of body representation among Instagram influencers. In S. S. LeBlanc & K. M. Hopper (Eds.), One size does not fit all: Undressing the performance of bodies in popular culture (pp. 47-66). Lexington Books. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793646972/One-Size-Does-Not-Fit-All-Undressing-the-Performance-of-Bodies-in-Popular-Culture
- Suren, N. (2022). An actor-network approach: The role of art in public spaces in the Gezi protests. In V. A. Newsom & L. M. Lengel (Eds.), Embodied activisms: Performative expressions of political and social action (pp. 151-173). Lexington Books. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793616531/Embodied-Activisms-Performative-Expressions-of-Political-and-Social-Action
- Scharrer, E., Ali Durrani, A., Suren, N., Kang, Y., Zhou, Y., & Butterworth, E. (2023). Early adolescents’ views of gender on YouTube in the context of a critical media literacy program. The Communication Review, 1-20. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10714421.2023.2167911?journalCode=gcrv20
- Scharrer, E., Kang, Y., Zhou, Y., Durrani, A. A., Suren, N., & Butterworth, E. (2022). Tough Guys and Trucks: Early Adolescents’ Critical Analysis of Masculinity in a TV Commercial. International Journal of Communication, 16(0), 20. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/18604