Assistant Professor

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

Sarah Anne Ganter (PhD, University of Vienna, 2017) is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the School of Communication. She was previously a research fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, UK, and a pre-doctoral researcher at the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna, Austria. She is an expert in the areas of media governance and media policy in the digital era, 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’ s work is influenced by a cosmopolitan approach to academic work, integrating scholarly work from different cultural, linguistic and geographical academic settings.

Dr. Ganter has published in New Media and Society, Digital Journalism, The International Journal of Communication, The European Journal of Communication, The Information Society, The Qualitative Report, Medien Journal and in various international book projects. Her co-authored book “The Power of Platforms: Shaping Media and Society” is forthcoming with Oxford University Press (2022). It is the first book-length treatment of the power of technology platforms over news and media and brings together work from journalism, platform studies, political science, and economics to understand the entanglements between platforms and publishers.

Her second book is a co-edited volume, "Media Governance: A Cosmopolitan Critique" and is accepted for publication with Palgrave Macmillan. Through its fourteen chapters, the volume offers an essential map to critically navigate the field of Media Governance and establishes Cosmopolitan Critique as a decentering methodological approach. 

Dr. Ganter is a Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford and 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). She served four years as the YECREA Communication Law and Policy representative and regularly works as reviewer for internationally ranked journals and conferences such as The International Journal of Communication, Communication Theory, The Journal of Communication, Journalism Practice, New Media and Society, The European Journal of Communication, The International Journal of Press/Politics, The International Journal of Qualitative Methods, ICA, IAMCR and ECREA.

For a complete overview over Dr. Ganter ́s research, please consult her Google Scholar and Research Gate profiles or  her personal website.

• PhD in Journalism and Communication (Universität 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 (Universität Passau, Germany)

• Media and communication governance in the international context
• Platforms and challenges for content industries and regulatory power
• Comparative Research