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Eloquence of cultural humor in protest: Zeynep Aksehirli at TEDxOZU

2,363 views · Published 8 November 2013 · 14:33 · Indexed 8 October 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2013 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Dr. Akşehirli received her BS (1995) and MS (1997) in Industrial Engineering from Middle East Technical University. She obtained her PhD in Human Resources and Organizational Behavior (2002) from the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles. She worked as an Assistant Professor of Management at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College before joining Özyeğin University.

Dr. Akşehirli is primarily interested in understanding how communication within an organization shapes common norms and values, and affects people's behavior even in the absence of formal rules. Dr. Akşehirli teaches courses on organizational culture and change, social capital, organizational behavior, and leadership.

Eloquence of Cultural Humor in Protest

Dr. Aksehirli discusses how succinctly humor communicates a great amount of information using cultural symbolism. The examples given from recent public events demonstrate the density of messages embodied by an image or a phrase.

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