Benjamin Nickl
Biographic Data
| ID | 668836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Nickl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Nickl |
| SIGNATURE | NICKL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3632-4675 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Text as technology
This article examines Birgit Weyhe’s graphic novel Rude Girl (2022) as an applied case study to rethink multimodal literary texts as hybrid technotexts. It foregrounds how learners can productively engage with and transform these texts using Gen-AI in foreign language instruction. Building on media and technology theory, the paper develops a framework for German as a Foreign Language (GFL) teaching that draws on Stiegler, Foucault, and Haraway. I…
They’re Eating the Pets
This article develops a conceptual framework for understanding how social media platforms engineer laughter as a stimulus within digital attention economies. Moving beyond interpretations of laughter as a secondary emotional response, we argue it functions as a platform-designed affective mechanism—bodily, social, and economic—intended to drive user engagement, amplify algorithmic visibility, and monetize participation. We introduce the concept o…
Comparative dimensions of Covid-19 visual health literacy
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted governments worldwide to utilise social media news platforms for disseminating critical public health information and safety protocols. Visual aids, including photographs, videos, charts, and infographics, played a key role in conveying health-related messages. However, there are variations in visual communication practices across countries, influenced by local health communication habits and cultural contexts. This…
Muslim like us
In the context of sustained interest in the mobilization of Muslimness beyond generic and hence immobile identity tropes, I consider how Australian mainstream television and film productions work to challenge and disrupt essentialist representations of Muslimness. Case studies feature two television series and a feature film, examined through the lens of transnational mobility theory and in the context of mediated anti-racism. The productions I d…
Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment
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. Benjamin Nickl examines through the social pragmatics of humour the d…
Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment
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. Benjamin Nickl examines through the social pragmatics of humour the d…
Not your sad, sad refugee
It appears to have become customary amongst many centrist European and conservative American leaders in the new century to present Muslim refugees’ stories as tales of dangerous Others. These stories are alarmist, post-9/11 scare tactics, which an overwhelming number of statistics have debunked as factually untrue. Against this backdrop, a new wave of Muslim refugee artists has begun to reclaim agency over their narratives of forced migration and…
German-Australian Encounters and Cultural Transfers
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German-Australian Encounters and Cultural Transfers
Not your sad, sad refugee
It appears to have become customary amongst many centrist European and conservative American leaders in the new century to present Muslim refugees’ stories as tales of dangerous Others. These stories are alarmist, post-9/11 scare tactics, which an overwhelming number of statistics have debunked as factually untrue. Against this backdrop, a new wave of Muslim refugee artists has begun to reclaim agency over their narratives of forced migration and…
Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment
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. Benjamin Nickl examines through the social pragmatics of humour the d…
Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment
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. Benjamin Nickl examines through the social pragmatics of humour the d…
Muslim like us
In the context of sustained interest in the mobilization of Muslimness beyond generic and hence immobile identity tropes, I consider how Australian mainstream television and film productions work to challenge and disrupt essentialist representations of Muslimness. Case studies feature two television series and a feature film, examined through the lens of transnational mobility theory and in the context of mediated anti-racism. The productions I d…
Comparative dimensions of Covid-19 visual health literacy
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted governments worldwide to utilise social media news platforms for disseminating critical public health information and safety protocols. Visual aids, including photographs, videos, charts, and infographics, played a key role in conveying health-related messages. However, there are variations in visual communication practices across countries, influenced by local health communication habits and cultural contexts. This…
Text as technology
This article examines Birgit Weyhe’s graphic novel Rude Girl (2022) as an applied case study to rethink multimodal literary texts as hybrid technotexts. It foregrounds how learners can productively engage with and transform these texts using Gen-AI in foreign language instruction. Building on media and technology theory, the paper develops a framework for German as a Foreign Language (GFL) teaching that draws on Stiegler, Foucault, and Haraway. I…
They’re Eating the Pets
This article develops a conceptual framework for understanding how social media platforms engineer laughter as a stimulus within digital attention economies. Moving beyond interpretations of laughter as a secondary emotional response, we argue it functions as a platform-designed affective mechanism—bodily, social, and economic—intended to drive user engagement, amplify algorithmic visibility, and monetize participation. We introduce the concept o…
Art (4 works) · German (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Comedy (3 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (3 works) · Entertainment (3 works) · Literature (3 works)