[Air-L] White Paper on AI Political Economies and Alternatives

[Anis Rahman]

Esteemed colleagues, I wanted to share a copy of my newly published white
paper, “*Is Another AI Possible? Platforms, Political Economies, and
Alternatives*,” (60 pages) released by the Media, Inequality & Change
Center at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of
Pennsylvania.

“*As AI technologies become increasingly central to our daily lives, it’s
> critically important that we imagine how they can best serve human needs,
> not just corporate profits. Rahman’s pathbreaking political economic
> analysis begins that vital conversation by critiquing structural problems
> and introducing alternative models and democratic paradigms*,” says
> Victor Pickard, C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political
> Economy at the Annenberg School and co-director of the MIC Center.


You can download this publication here:
https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/media-inequality-and-change-center-publishes-another-ai-possible-platforms-political-economies-and


Kind regards,

Anis

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*Anis Rahman, Ph.D.*
Assistant Teaching Professor
Department of Communication
University of Washington, Seattle
aniscom at uw.edu
https://com.uw.edu/people/faculty/anis-rahman/

Affiliate Faculty, South Asia Center
<https://jsis.washington.edu/southasia/>
Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington

Affiliate Researcher, Society + Technology
<https://depts.washington.edu/societytech/wordpress/>
University of Washington

Co-Chair, 2021-2025, Public Service Media Policies Working Group
<https://iamcr.org/s-wg/working-group/psm>
International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)

Editorial Board, *Journal of Digital Media & Policy
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-digital-media-policy>*

Recent publications:

*Rahman*, A. (2025). *Is Another AI Possible? Platforms, Political
Economies, and Alternatives*. White Paper published by Media, Inequality &
Change Center, Annenberg School for Communication, University of
Pennsylvania. Open Access: https://tinyurl.com/48rmakww

*Rahman*, A. (2025). Opportunities and challenges of AI in public media
journalism. In A. D’Arma, M. Michalis, G. F. Lowe, & M. Zita (Eds.).
*Challenges
and developments in Public Service Journalism* (pp. 122 - 147). University
of Westminster Press. Open Access: https://doi.org/10.16997/14610450

Raghunath, P. & *Rahman*, A. (2024). Opening up the black box of
communication governance in South Asia: Critical Policy Ethnography as
methodology. In Padovani, C., Wavre, V., Hintz, A., Goggin, G., &
Iosifidis, P. (Eds.) *Global communication governance at the crossroads* (pp.
389–410). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29616-1_22