大象传媒

Associate Professor

T:778-782-5273
E: sganter@sfu.ca
Room: K9672

Sarah Anne Ganter (PhD, University of Vienna, 2017) is an Associate Professor of Communication and Cultural Policy in the School of Communication at 大象传媒. She is an expert in the areas of media governance and media policy in the digital era, journalism and other content industries, comparative and cross-border research. Her expertise includes analyzing media and digital policy transformations from a theoretical perspective that focuses on the dynamics and interactions shaping institutional fields. Dr. Ganter鈥� s work is influenced by a cosmopolitan approach to academic work, integrating scholarly work from different cultural, linguistic and geographical academic settings.

Dr. Ganter is the co-author of  and co-editor of  Her research has appeared in leading journals including New Media & Society, Digital Journalism, The International Journal of Communication, and The European Journal of Communication.

Currently, she leads two major research projects: An Exploration of Independent Journalism鈥檚 Epistemologies: Enhancing Democratic Resilience in the Age of Disinformation (EDIT), funded by the Transatlantic Partnership Platform, and the SSHRC Insight Grant Laws Regulating the Use of News Content and their (Un)intended Consequences for Journalism.

Additionally, Sarah is a Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford and serves on the Editorial Boards of The International Journal of Press/Politics and the Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business book series and the Global Media Journal/the German edition.

Dr. Ganter is also a member of several communication studies associations, such as the German Communication Association (DGPuK), the International Communication Association (ICA) and Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet).

For a complete overview over Dr. Ganter 虂s research, please consult her and profiles or her .

Prospective students:

If you are interested in pursuing graduate studies at 大象传媒 in the fields of communication and cultural policy, platform governance, journalism, media structures or de-westernization of media and communication studies please contact me at sganter@sfu.ca.

At the moment, I am specifically interested in working with candidates (MA and PhD) in the following thematic areas:

• platformed journalism and disentanglements from digital platform dependencies (see e.g. my )
• independent journalism and 鈥榩ositive dependence鈥� (see e.g. my )
• platform policy discourses (see e.g. and  article and ongoing work from my SSHRC grant)
• academic cosmopolitanism and epistemic transformation (see several of and my )
• cultural industries in acute crisis and digital acceleration (see e.g. forthcoming work)

Read here for more information on the application process and graduate studies in the School of Communication at the 大象传媒. Please note that I can voice support for a candidate (and I am happy to do so if it鈥檚 a good fit and the candidate has a strong profile!), however, candidates are ultimately selected by a committee at school level.

• PhD in Journalism and Communication (Universit盲t Wien, Austria)
• MA in International Communications (University of Leeds, UK)
• MA in Intercultural Business Management (Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• MA in Cultural Area Studies, Economics and Applied Languages (Universit盲t Passau, Germany)

• Media and communication governance in the global content industries
• Platforms and challenges for content industries and regulatory power
• Academic cosmopolitanism