Prof. Eran Fisher

Eran Fisher is a professor in the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication at the Open University of Israel. He studies the interplay of technology and society, with a special interest in digital media, digital work and capitalism, big data and algorithms, and media history. He is currently investigating the design history of fillable paper media, such as forms and personal calendars. His books include Algorithms and Subjectivity: The Subversion of Critical Knowledge (Routledge, 2022); Media and New Capitalism in the Digital Age (Palgrave, 2010); and the co-edited volumes Internet and Emotions (Routledge 2014), and Reconsidering Value and Labour in the Digital Age (Palgrave 2015).


Selected publications:

Fisher, Eran. 2026. Forms as the Fordization of communication. Critical Studies in Media Communication. 

Fisher, Eran. 2025. Personalization and the Libertarian Roots of Populism, TripleC: Communication, Capitalism, and Critique, 23(1): 156-163.

Fisher, Eran. 2024. AI as epistemic media and the future of subjectivity,  Filosofia morale/Moral Philosophy, 2: 131-141.

Musih, Norma, and Eran Fisher. 2024. Dialectics of Training: A critique of recommendation engines' aesthetic judgment, Convergence.

Ramiel, Hemi, and Eran Fisher. 2023. The epistemic machinery of educational platforms, Learning, Media and Technology,  49(4): 623-638. (Q1)

Fisher, Eran. 2023. Epistemic media: Their history and relations to subjectivity, Knowledge Cultures, 11(3): 7-24 (Q2)