CV
Highlighted Academic Accomplishments
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Tsuria, R. (2021). Digital Media: When God Becomes Everybody—The Blurring of Sacred and Profane. Religions 12(2).
Tsuria, R., Bellar, W., Campbell, H., and Cho, J. (2021). Tension between Technological and Religious Affordances in the Design and Presentation of Sacred Text Mobile Applications. Journal of Contemporary Religion 36(1), 57-78.
Tsuria, R. (2020). The Discourse of Practice – Online Q&A as normalizing gender and sexual behaviors. International Journal of Communication 14(2020), 3595–3613.
Tsuria, R. (2020). Get out of church! The case of #EmptyThePews: Twitter Hashtag between Resistance and Community. Information 11(6), 335.
Tsuria, R. (2020). Digital Divide in Light of Religion, Gender, and Women’s Digital Participation. Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society. Vol. 18 No. 3, pp. 405-413. DOI: 10.1108/JICES-03-2020-0028
Tsuria, R., & Campbell, H. A. (2020). “In My Own Opinion”: Negotiation of Rabbinical Authority Online in Responsa Within Kipa.co.il. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 45(1), 65–84. DOI: 10.1177/0196859920924384
Yadlin-Segal, A., Tsuria R. and Bellar, W. (2020). The Ethics of Studying Digital Contexts: Reflections from Three Empirical Case Studies. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies 2020:2, 168–178. DOI: 10.1002/hbe2.183
Tsuria, R. (2020). The Space Between Us: Theorizing Online Interreligious Dialogue. Religion 50:3, 437-454. DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2020.1754598
Tsuria, R. (2017). From Sin to Sick – Digital Judaism and Pornography. Journal of Media and Religion 16(4), 117-128. DOI: 10.1080/15348423.2017.1401407
Tsuria, R., Yadlin-Segal, A., Vitullo, A., & Campbell, A. (2017). Approaches to Digital Methods in Studies of Digital Religion. The Communication Review, Vol. 20(2), 73-97. DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2017.1304137
Tsuria, R. (2016). Jewish Q&A Online and the Regulation of Sexuality: Using Foucault to read Technology. Social Media + Society, Vol. 2(3), 1-10. DOI: 10.1177/2056305116662176
Tsuria, R. (2015). Islamophobia in Arab Online Media. CyberOrient, Vol. (9)1, 57-83.
Bellar, W, Campbell, H. A., Kyong Cho, J., Terry, A., Tsuria, R., Yadlin-Segal, A. & Ziemer, J. (2013). Reading Religion in Internet Memes. Journal of Religion, Media & Digital Culture, Vol. 2(2), 1-39. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/21659214-90000031
Tsuria, R. (2013). Islamophobia and Polemics Online. Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis Vol. 25, 222-23. Based on the Donner Institute conference on Digital Religion, Turku University, Finland.
Selected Book Chapters
Tsuria, R. & Yadlin-Segal, A. (Forthcoming, 2021). Digital Religion and Global Media: Flows, Communities, and Radicalizations. In: S. Ward (Ed.). Handbook of Global Media Ethics. USA: Springer Publications.
Cohen, Y. & Tsuria, R. (2019). A Match Made in the Clouds: Jews, Rabbis and Online Dating Sites. In: Internet-Infused Romantic Interactions and Dating Practices. Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, Netherlands (pp. 177-190).
Tsuria, R. (2019). Conservative Judaism and Online Media. In: Augie Grant, Amanda Sturgill, & Chiung Hwang Chen (Eds.). Religion Online: How Digital Technology Is Changing the Way We Worship and Pray. USA: Praeger Press (pp. 144-160).
Tsuria, R. & Campbell, H. (2019). Judaism in Israel. In: Kerstin Radde-Antweiler & Xenia Zeiler (Eds.). Mediatized Religion in Asia - Studies on Digital Media and Religion. UK: Routledge.
Book Projects
Tsuria, R. (Book under review at Penn State University Press). Holy Women, Pious Sex, Sanctified Internet: New Media in the Jewish Bedroom.
Campbell, H. and Tsuria, R. (Eds.). (2021). Digital Religion 2.0: Understanding Religion in a Digital Age. Routledge.
Williams, A., Tsuria, R., Robinson L., (Eds.). (2018). Media and Power in International Contexts: perspectives on Agency and Identity. UK: Emerald Publishing.
Awards and Grants
Grant from the Interfaith Youth Core from implementing a Campus-wide Interfaith Excellence project. Grant submitted by Dr. Axel Oaks Takacs, Dr. Ki Joo Choi, Mr. Majid White, and Dr. Ruth Tsuria, 2021-2022
Teaching for Inclusivity Syllabus Project, Seton Hall University, 2021
Digital Religion Research Award, the Network for New Media, Religion, and Digital Culture, 2020
Emerging Scholar Award, Eighth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society in Berkeley, California, 2018
