Publications

Book Chapters

Chapter 12

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.

Routledge Handbook of the Influence Industry

One Size Does Not Fit All

Chapter 4

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.

Embodied Activisms

Chapter 8

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.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Scharrer, E., Ali Durrani, A., & Suren, N. (2025). Remixing gender in advertising: A qualitative study of early adolescents’ views of gender targeting in LEGO commercials. Advertising & Quarterly, 25(4). Link

Suren, N. (2024). “Love from me and my belly.”: The politics and performance of body positivity on Instagram. International Journal of Communication. Link

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. Link

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. Link

Book Reviews

Suren, N. (2024). Review of Mediated Misogynoir: Erasing Black Women’s and Girls’ Innocence in the Public Imagination by Kalima Young. Critical Studies in Media Communication. Link

Suren, N. (2021). Review of Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures by André Brock, Jr. (New York University Press). Lateral, 10(2). Link