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-cente... Kind regards, Anis -- *Anis Rahman, Ph.D.* Assistant Teaching Professor Department of Communication University of Washington, Seattle aniscom@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