Miriam Berg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3698733 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miriam Berg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miriam |
| FAMILY NAME | Berg |
| SIGNATURE | BERG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University in Qatar |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4869-530X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Digital Othering in Healthcare
Digital healthcare is often presented as expanding access, efficiency, and patient autonomy. Drawing on 27 semistructured interviews with first-generation migrant women from Türkiye aged 57–71 in Hamburg, Berlin, and the Ruhr region, this article examines how these women navigate digital healthcare after at least 35 years of residence in Germany. Participants often used smartphones and social media confidently, yet appointment platforms and digit…
Negotiating visibility and virtue
This article examines how religiously conservative Turkish diasporic women interpret Turkish celebrity magazine television, a widely circulating yet morally ambivalent genre that remains underexplored in diaspora research. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 27 women in Germany, Belgium and Austria, the study explores how audiences engage with culturally familiar media within diasporic contexts shaped by migration histories and gendered expect…
Refugee Integration in Germany
This study explores the multifaceted experiences of refugees in Hamburg, Germany, with a focus on how various forms of othering—social, cultural, linguistic, and digital—affect their integration. Through qualitative interviews with 62 refugees, the findings reveal that language acquisition, while often regarded as essential for integration, does not shield refugees from exclusion. Othering extends beyond linguistic differences, intersecting with …
Cultural skimming, authenticity, and streaming preferences
This article explores how young audiences in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates engage with Turkish television serials ( dizi ) within a fragmented digital media environment shaped by international streaming platforms and algorithmically curated social media. Drawing on exploratory, participant-led focus groups, the study examines how participants interact with Turkish serials produced as international streaming originals in compar…
Cultural proximity and gender representation
This study investigates why women in Southern Italy are attracted to Turkish TV serials, which may seem culturally distant at first glance. By conducting semi-structured interviews with 30 women, the research aims to uncover the specific elements of Turkish serials that resonate with these women. The findings reveal that participants appreciate the portrayal of strong, independent female characters in Turkish serials, which challenge their precon…
Information-precarity for refugee women in Hamburg, Germany, during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study examines refugee women's ICT and digital media usage during the Covid-19 pandemic. It aims to ascertain how women in refugee accommodation centres in Hamburg, Germany overcome information precarity due to limited or no internet access when public life primarily moved to the digital world. The discussion in this paper is drawn from 32 semi-structured interviews conducted during the fall and winter of 2020 with refugee women from Afghani…
Turkish television serials’ reception among women viewers in rural Türkiye
This study explores how rural women in Büyükkarabag, a village in western Türkiye, interpret popular Turkish drama serials on national television in relation to local values and moralities surrounding gender roles, honour, family values and motherhood. Through extensive informal conversations, structured and unstructured ethnographic interviews and participant observations, the sociocultural dynamics influencing audience behaviour and attitudes w…
Negotiating Authenticity and Social Identity
This study examines the perceptions of authenticity among rural women in the village of Büyükkarabag, located in western Türkiye, in their engagement with the popular Turkish television program Müge Anlı ile Tatlı Sert (commonly known as the Müge Anlı Show). Drawing on social identity theory, the paper explores the concept of authenticity and its connection to local values and beliefs, including class, gender roles, honour, and family values. Eth…
The interplay between authenticity, realism and cultural proximity in the reception of Turkish drama serials among Qatari audiences
This article explores how young Qatari audiences perceive authenticity in Turkish television dramas. The concepts of authenticity and realism are used as analytical tools to examine empirical findings from twenty focus group discussions with students, in 2016 and 2017. The results reveal that young Qataris see Turkish serials as offering a more authentic representation of real life than local and regional television serials. Although Turkish dram…
Women Refugees' Media Usage
This study examines how women refugees in Hamburg, Germany, many arriving either as minors or unaccompanied minors (now young adults), managed to overcome information precarity resulting from limited access to the internet and/or traditional media, while experiencing constantly-changing living conditions. Findings from 32 semi-structured interviews with refugee women from various countries show that their perception of precarity was amplified by …
Turkish Drama Serials and Arab Audiences
Cultural Proximity or Cultural Distance? Selecting Media Content among Turkish Diasporic Audiences in Germany
This study focuses on the consumption of Turkish cultural products (TV serials) among second- and third-generation members of the Turkish diaspora. It provides a comparative analysis of diasporans aged between eighteen and thirty years who have higher education with those who have undergone a vocational education. It attempts to determine whether basic education is heightening an audience's preference for Turkish television content and if receivi…
The Short History of the Kings of Siam by Jeremias van Vliet
Women Refugees' Media Usage
This study examines how women refugees in Hamburg, Germany, many arriving either as minors or unaccompanied minors (now young adults), managed to overcome information precarity resulting from limited access to the internet and/or traditional media, while experiencing constantly-changing living conditions. Findings from 32 semi-structured interviews with refugee women from various countries show that their perception of precarity was amplified by …
Turkish television serials’ reception among women viewers in rural Türkiye
This study explores how rural women in Büyükkarabag, a village in western Türkiye, interpret popular Turkish drama serials on national television in relation to local values and moralities surrounding gender roles, honour, family values and motherhood. Through extensive informal conversations, structured and unstructured ethnographic interviews and participant observations, the sociocultural dynamics influencing audience behaviour and attitudes w…
Cultural proximity and gender representation
This study investigates why women in Southern Italy are attracted to Turkish TV serials, which may seem culturally distant at first glance. By conducting semi-structured interviews with 30 women, the research aims to uncover the specific elements of Turkish serials that resonate with these women. The findings reveal that participants appreciate the portrayal of strong, independent female characters in Turkish serials, which challenge their precon…
The Short History of the Kings of Siam by Jeremias van Vliet
Turkish Drama Serials and Arab Audiences
Cultural Proximity or Cultural Distance? Selecting Media Content among Turkish Diasporic Audiences in Germany
This study focuses on the consumption of Turkish cultural products (TV serials) among second- and third-generation members of the Turkish diaspora. It provides a comparative analysis of diasporans aged between eighteen and thirty years who have higher education with those who have undergone a vocational education. It attempts to determine whether basic education is heightening an audience's preference for Turkish television content and if receivi…
The interplay between authenticity, realism and cultural proximity in the reception of Turkish drama serials among Qatari audiences
This article explores how young Qatari audiences perceive authenticity in Turkish television dramas. The concepts of authenticity and realism are used as analytical tools to examine empirical findings from twenty focus group discussions with students, in 2016 and 2017. The results reveal that young Qataris see Turkish serials as offering a more authentic representation of real life than local and regional television serials. Although Turkish dram…
Women Refugees' Media Usage
This study examines how women refugees in Hamburg, Germany, many arriving either as minors or unaccompanied minors (now young adults), managed to overcome information precarity resulting from limited access to the internet and/or traditional media, while experiencing constantly-changing living conditions. Findings from 32 semi-structured interviews with refugee women from various countries show that their perception of precarity was amplified by …
Information-precarity for refugee women in Hamburg, Germany, during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study examines refugee women's ICT and digital media usage during the Covid-19 pandemic. It aims to ascertain how women in refugee accommodation centres in Hamburg, Germany overcome information precarity due to limited or no internet access when public life primarily moved to the digital world. The discussion in this paper is drawn from 32 semi-structured interviews conducted during the fall and winter of 2020 with refugee women from Afghani…
Turkish television serials’ reception among women viewers in rural Türkiye
This study explores how rural women in Büyükkarabag, a village in western Türkiye, interpret popular Turkish drama serials on national television in relation to local values and moralities surrounding gender roles, honour, family values and motherhood. Through extensive informal conversations, structured and unstructured ethnographic interviews and participant observations, the sociocultural dynamics influencing audience behaviour and attitudes w…
Negotiating Authenticity and Social Identity
This study examines the perceptions of authenticity among rural women in the village of Büyükkarabag, located in western Türkiye, in their engagement with the popular Turkish television program Müge Anlı ile Tatlı Sert (commonly known as the Müge Anlı Show). Drawing on social identity theory, the paper explores the concept of authenticity and its connection to local values and beliefs, including class, gender roles, honour, and family values. Eth…
Cultural proximity and gender representation
This study investigates why women in Southern Italy are attracted to Turkish TV serials, which may seem culturally distant at first glance. By conducting semi-structured interviews with 30 women, the research aims to uncover the specific elements of Turkish serials that resonate with these women. The findings reveal that participants appreciate the portrayal of strong, independent female characters in Turkish serials, which challenge their precon…
Refugee Integration in Germany
This study explores the multifaceted experiences of refugees in Hamburg, Germany, with a focus on how various forms of othering—social, cultural, linguistic, and digital—affect their integration. Through qualitative interviews with 62 refugees, the findings reveal that language acquisition, while often regarded as essential for integration, does not shield refugees from exclusion. Othering extends beyond linguistic differences, intersecting with …
Cultural skimming, authenticity, and streaming preferences
This article explores how young audiences in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates engage with Turkish television serials ( dizi ) within a fragmented digital media environment shaped by international streaming platforms and algorithmically curated social media. Drawing on exploratory, participant-led focus groups, the study examines how participants interact with Turkish serials produced as international streaming originals in compar…
Digital Othering in Healthcare
Digital healthcare is often presented as expanding access, efficiency, and patient autonomy. Drawing on 27 semistructured interviews with first-generation migrant women from Türkiye aged 57–71 in Hamburg, Berlin, and the Ruhr region, this article examines how these women navigate digital healthcare after at least 35 years of residence in Germany. Participants often used smartphones and social media confidently, yet appointment platforms and digit…
Negotiating visibility and virtue
This article examines how religiously conservative Turkish diasporic women interpret Turkish celebrity magazine television, a widely circulating yet morally ambivalent genre that remains underexplored in diaspora research. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 27 women in Germany, Belgium and Austria, the study explores how audiences engage with culturally familiar media within diasporic contexts shaped by migration histories and gendered expect…
Sociology (9 works) · Turkish (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (4 works) · Media Studies and Communication (4 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)