Nora Suren

Dr. Nora Suren is a global digital media scholar and educator who works and teaches at the intersection of platform governance, creator culture, global media, and gender and sexuality.

Dr. Suren earned her Ph.D. in Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2025. Her dissertation, Navigating Double Oppression Online: How Alternative Content Creators Maintain Their Ideological Integrity under Algorithmic Bias and Turkish Authoritarianism, draws on digital ethnography, platform analysis, and interviews to examine the lived experiences and tactics of politically precarious and marginalized digital content creators in Turkey. Her research has been supported by fellowships and grants from UMass Amherst and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

During the 2024–2025 academic year, she was a Visiting Scholar and Dissertation Fellow at MIT, jointly appointed in Women’s and Gender Studies and Comparative Media Studies/Writing. She is also an affiliated member of the Global Technology for Social Justice Lab and the Content Creator Scholars Network.

Her work has appeared in International Journal of Communication, Advertising & Society Quarterly, and The Communication Review, and in edited collections including The Routledge Handbook on the Influence Industry. Prior to academia, she worked in the advertising industry as a digital account executive, managing brand campaigns and influencer partnerships.

She has designed and taught a wide range of media and communication courses, including Gender and Social Media, Writing as Communication, Interpersonal Communication & Culture, and Public Speaking. At Northeastern, she is excited to teach courses on global media, digital cultures, social change, and gender. Dr. Suren brings a commitment to inclusive pedagogy, critical digital literacy, and collaborative research, and looks forward to contributing to CAMD’s vibrant community.