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Sarah Wagner is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Living Sustainability. Sarah is a critical ethnographer with over a decade of experience leading research projects that uncover and address the mechanisms of social and digital inequalities. Originally from Vancouver Island, Canada, Sarah has held research posts in Spain, Argentina, Bolivia, Japan, and Uganda. She has been awarded three internationally competitive fellowships and was recently awarded the Royal Society of Canada’s Alice Wilson Award for her pioneering research on communication media environments in long-term care.
Sarah has a PhD in the Information and Knowledge Society, an MSc in Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies and an MA in Philosophy. Her research crosses disciplinary boundaries and draws on methods and theories from media anthropology, sociology, and critical media studies to address systemic disadvantages in our increasingly digitalised societies. She has specific expertise in digital storytelling and is interested in the interrelations of creative practice, communicative justice, and social inclusion. Her research has brought attention to the power differentials embedded in communication technology service systems and has been published in top tier academic journals including New Media and Society and Mobile Media and Communication.
Sarah is currently accepting PhD students in the areas of digital and social inclusion; community communication and participatory media; postcolonial and development studies; and digital ageism and critical age studies.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SIA: Social Impact Assessment for Island Communities
Welamedage, L., Wagner, S. & Bowditch, E.
1/06/24 → 30/11/24
Project: Research
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Tackling ageism in socio-technical interventions: An actor-network analysis of Digital Storytelling workshops with care home residents
Wagner, S. & Ogawa, A., 5 Jun 2023, Digital Ageism: How it Operates and Approaches to Tackling it. Rosales, A., Fernández-Ardèvol, M. & Svensson, J. (eds.). Routledge, p. 210-228 19 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Place-Making through Media: How Media Environments Make a Difference for Long-Term Care Residents’ Agency
Wagner, S., 14 Feb 2022, In: Societies. 12, 1, 14 p., 27.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ageing and indigeneity: Mediatization tactics among Guarani leaders
Wagner, S., 27 Jan 2020, Off Campus: Seggau School of Thought: Meditating and Mediating Change: State - Society - Religion. Goggin, M. & Marinsek, U. (eds.). Graz, Austria, Vol. 4. p. 37-48Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Cultural revitalization and the ontology of communicative spaces
Wagner, S., 1 May 2019, In: International Journal of Cultural Studies. 22, 3, p. 417-433 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Decolonizing mobile media: Mobile Internet appropriation in a Guarani community
Wagner, S. & Fernandez-Ardevol, M., 1 Mar 2019, In: Mobile Media and Communication. 8, 1, p. 83-103 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Local content production and the political economy of the mobile app industries in Argentina and Bolivia.
Wagner, S. & Fernandez-Ardevol, M., 9 Jul 2016, In: New Media and Society. 18, 8, p. 1768-1786 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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From discourse to practice: Reducing status barriers between ODA workers and community members
Wagner, S., 1 Apr 2015, Inside the Black Box: Contributions to the discussion on official development assistance. (United Nations University UNU-Merit Working Paper Series; no. 014).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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