Benjamin Nickl – författare

This book presents an in-depth look at the state of transnational education and comparative perspectives on education systems between Germany and other nation states. It explores how a transnational education identity in secondary and tertiary institutions has developed in the German and other national contexts and which lessons can be learned from current challenges and successes of education systems. It uses detailed case studies to promote critical rethinking of current educational practices in high schools and universities, specifically of race, gender, religion and learner ability in educational settings. It understands learning and teaching as an arena to discuss transnational education opportunities in the 21st century as an emerging or evolving discourse on contemporary forms of transnationalism.

This book presents an in-depth look at the state of transnational education and comparative perspectives on education systems between Germany and other nation states.

At the heart of this interrogation is a keen awareness of the technological, social, economic and cultural changes that have an impact on global cinemas more broadly: new distribution channels such as streaming platforms and online film festivals, and audience engagement that transcends national borders as well as the cinema space.

At the heart of this interrogation is a keen awareness of the technological, social, economic and cultural changes that have an impact on global cinemas more broadly: new distribution channels such as streaming platforms and online film festivals, and audience engagement that transcends national borders as well as the cinema space.

Cross-Cultural Television Audiences in the Age of Streaming explores how streaming platforms have transformed cross-cultural television audiences, reshaping the production, distribution, and interpretation of global TV dramas in a transcultural and transnational context.The book looks at production and distribution as well as the negotiation of meaning in a transcultural and transnational context. Revisiting and updating the influential research of Liebes and Katz, “The Export of Meaning”, on international and intercultural audience decoding of the American TV series Dallas, the book offers fresh insights into the global flows and contra-flows of TV dramas in the streaming era. By replicating, updating, and complementing one of the most influential research paradigms in audience studies, all authors in this book take the study of Liebes and Katz as a reference point and thus make it highly relevant for today’s television and streaming reality.Written in an engaging and accessible style, this timely cross-disciplinary book is an essential reading for students and scholars in Communication, Media and Cultural Studies and for anyone interested in contemporary television and streaming culture.

Comedy entertainment is a powerful arena for serious public engagement with questions of German national identity and Turkish German migration. The German majority society and its largest labour migrant community have been asking for decades what it means to be German and what it means for Turkish Germans, Muslims of the second and third generations, to call Germany their home.

This book approaches Australo-German relations from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. It maps new pathways into the rich landscape of the Australo-German transnational encounter, which is characterized by dense and interwoven cultural, historical and political terrains. Surveying an astonishingly wide range of sites from literary translations to film festivals, Aboriginal art to education systems, the contributions offer a uniquely expansive dossier on the migrations of people, ideas, technologies, money and culture between the two countries. The links between Australia and Germany are explored from a variety of new, interdisciplinary perspectives, and situated within key debates in literary and cultural studies, critical theory, politics, linguistics and transnational studies. The book gathers unique contributions that span the areas of migration, aboriginality, popular culture, music, media and institutional structures to create a dynamic portrait of the exchanges between these two nations over time. Australo-German relations have emerged from intersecting histories of colonialism, migration, communication, tourism and socio-cultural representation into the dramatically changed twenty-first century, where traditional channels of connection between nations in the Western hemisphere have come undone, but new channels ensure cross-fertilization between newly constituted borders.