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Yesim Kaptan's research combines a deep knowledge of media, society and culture (particularly Middle Eastern and Turkish media) and the analytical perspectives of contemporary global media studies and media ethnography. She brings a comparative perspective to issues of diversity, difference and hybridity in communication studies. What unites her research is a close attention to the mediation of global-local nexus in everyday life and the role of global media industries for construction of mediated identities. Yesim also conducts research on how global identifications subvert hegemonic discourses on nationalism, globalization and national-cultural belonging and how communication technologies and media forge "hyphenated" identities regarding cross-cultural production and reception of global media products. She teaches a wide range of courses including Communication in a Global Society, Communication Theory, Intercultural Communication, Advertising and Consumer Culture, Research Methods and Global Consumerism and Identities.

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

• Kaptan, Y. & Tutucu, M. (2021, Invited chapter). In Y. Kim (Ed.), The Soft Power of the Korean Wave: Parasite, BTS and Drama, London, UK and New York, NY: Routledge.
• Kaptan, Y. & Algan, E. (2020). Introduction: Turkey’s National Television in Transnational Context. In Y. Kaptan, & E. Algan (Eds.), Television in Turkey: Local Production, Transnational Expansion and Political Aspirations (pp. 1-24). London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Kaptan, Y. (2020, Invited chapter,). In P. M. Jensen, & U. C. Jacobsen (Eds.), The Global Audiences of Danish Television Drama (pp. 91-106). Gothenburg: Nordicom.
• Eichner, S., Kaptan, Y., Prommer, E., & Yurtaeva-Martens, Y. (Invited chapter, 2019). In K. Arnold, P. Preston, & S. Kinnebrock (Eds.), The Handbook of European Communication History (pp. 385-402). Malden, MA and Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell.
• Kaptan, Y. & Tutucu, M. (2019). In J. Park & A.G. Lee (eds.), The rise of K-dramas: Essays on Korean television and its global consumption (pp. 193-216). Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company.
• Kaptan, Y. (2019, Invited chapter). In Y. Kamalipour (ed.), Global Communication: A Multicultural Perspective, 3rd Edition (pp. 344-370). Lahman, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 
• Kaptan, Y. (2018, Invited chapter). . In S. Peacock, S. Turnbull and K.T. Hansen (eds.), European Television Crime Drama and Beyond (pp. 193-210). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Ogan, C. & Kaptan, Y. (2018). In J. Dee (ed.), From Tahrir Square to Ferguson: Social Networks as Facilitators of Social Movements (pp. 103-130). Bern: Peter Lang.
• Kaptan, Y. (2017). Media, Culture and Society. In J. D. Ponder (ed.), Foundations of Communication (pp 255-264). Southlake, TX: Fountainhead Press. 
• Kaptan, Y. and Oksuz, B. (2014) “Articulating locality in advertising adaptation: The Snickers case.” In P. Kitchen and E. Uzunoglu (Eds.), Integrated Communications in the Post-Modern Era. New York:  Palgrave Macmillan, pp.195-211.

• Kaptan, Y. & Algan, E. (Eds.). (2020). Television in Turkey: Local Production, Transnational Expansion and Political Aspirations. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.