Erika Franklin Fowler
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Erika Franklin Fowler
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Prof @ Wesleyan U; Co-Director of Wesleyan Media Project (@wesmediaproject.bsky.social & mediaproject.wesleyan.edu); policomm, polisci, public opinion & health policy scholar; Collaborative on Media & Messaging for Health & Social Policy (commhsp.org) .. more

Erika Franklin Fowler is an American political scientist. She is a Professor of Government at Wesleyan University, having previously served as a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. .. more

Communication & Media Studies 40%
Political science 24%

Relevant for conversations in #wesgov214
The Platform Society described how digital platforms came to reorganize social life.

We are now entering a new phase: the AI Society

Generative AI is changing not only how information circulates, but how knowledge is produced, economies are organized, and political life is structured.🧵

New paper!
From the platform society to the AI society - Petter Törnberg, Justus Uitermark, 2026
Generative AI is becoming embedded in infrastructures of knowledge, culture, and political authority, giving rise to an emerging AI society. This transformation...
journals.sagepub.com
The Platform Society described how digital platforms came to reorganize social life.

We are now entering a new phase: the AI Society

Generative AI is changing not only how information circulates, but how knowledge is produced, economies are organized, and political life is structured.🧵

New paper!
From the platform society to the AI society - Petter Törnberg, Justus Uitermark, 2026
Generative AI is becoming embedded in infrastructures of knowledge, culture, and political authority, giving rise to an emerging AI society. This transformation...
journals.sagepub.com