Book Chapters
Rajan, Benson (2022). Religious authority and participatory social action in Indian networks. The Oxford handbook of digital religion. (pp. 414-434) edited by Heidi A. Campbell and Pauline Hope Cheong. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197549803.013.19
Rajan, Benson (2020). Curating an affective push: Indian women’s Facebook profile pictures and their affective turns. Deleuzian and Guattarian approaches to contemporary communication cultures in India. (pp. 107-120) edited by Gopalan Ravindran. Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-15-2140-9_7
Rajan, Benson (2019). New mythologies of fake news: WhatsApp and misrepresented scientific achievements of ancient India. Handbook of research on deception, fake news, and misinformation online. (pp. 192-208) edited by Innocent E. Chiluwa and Sergei A. Samoilenko. Hershey, PA, United States: IGI Global. doi: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8535-0.ch012
Journal Articles
Rajan, Benson (2026). ‘Men-first’: Indian women’s experiences of male entitlement and intrusion on Bumble. The Communication Review, 1-29. doi: 10.1080/10714421.2026.2661479
Rajan, Benson (2025). “It follows you home”: Emotional and psychological impacts of dating-app harassment on Indian women. Women's Studies International Forum, 112 103129, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103129
Rajan, Benson (2025). Fearing the “Known Unknown” men: a study on “Red Flags” and safety work on dating apps in India. Women's Studies in Communication, 48 (3), 351-372. doi: 10.1080/07491409.2025.2489606
Rajan, Benson (2025). Harassment and abuse of Indian women on dating apps: a narrative review of literature on technology-facilitated violence against women and dating app use. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12 (1) 55, 1-10. doi: 10.1057/s41599-024-04286-6
Sarkar, Sahana and Rajan, Benson (2023). Materiality and discursivity of cyber violence against women in India. Journal of Creative Communications, 18 (1), 109-123. doi: 10.1177/0973258621992273
Rajan, Benson, Nair, Pooja and Venkataraman, Saindhavi (2022). Young Indians, social media, and COVID-19: study on the relation between engagements on social media and mental well-being during the pandemic. Psychology of Popular Media, 11 (3), 281-284. doi: 10.1037/ppm0000404
Rajan, Benson, Jose, Lydia G. and Sundar, Thejas (2022). Are you hooked to the ‘Gram’? Exploring the correlation between loneliness, the fear of missing out, and Instagram usage among young Indians. Palabra Clave, 25 (2) e2525, 1-26. doi: 10.5294/pacla.2022.25.2.5
Rajan, Benson, Kundu, Devaleena and Sarkar, Sahana (2022). Rape, popular culture, and Nirbhaya: a study of India's Daughter and Delhi Crime. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 49 (2), 196-214. doi: 10.1177/01968599221102527
Rajan, Benson (2021). Sari, femininity, and wall art: a semiotic study of GuessWho’s street art in Bengaluru. Tripodos (50), 111-130. doi: 10.51698/tripodos.2021.50p111-130
Rajan, Benson and Venkatraman, Shreya (2021). Insta-hate: an exploration of Islamophobia and right-wing nationalism on Instagram amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in India. Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research, 14 (1), 71-91. doi: 10.1386/jammr_00025_1
Rajan, Benson (2019). Smartphones in churches: An affective negotiation around digital disruptions and opportunities in Delhi Christian Churches. Journal of Content, Community and Communication, 9 (2019), 93-104. doi: 10.31620/JCCC.06.19/14
Rajan, Benson and Venkatraman, Shreya (2017). Fabric-rendered identity: a study of Dalit representation in Pa. Ranjith’s Attakathi, Madras and Kabali. Artha Journal of Social Sciences, 16 (3), 17-37. doi: 10.12724/ajss.42.2