This session offers a glimpse into the diverse work of the 2025 Research Fellows at the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy (ICDE) at The New School. Moderated by Trebor Scholz, the session features short presentations by Adolfo Jose Acosta Aguayo and Jeongone (Joh) Seo, followed by brief introductions from the remaining fellows, who will highlight their focus areas and current research. Together, these presentations reveal the range of inquiry shaping the cooperative digital economy—from platform governance and AI ethics to ecological sustainability and solidarity-based innovation.
Speakers
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Tara Merk Ph.D. candidate, CNRS/Panthéon-Assas University Paris II
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Jeongone (Joh) Seo Ph.D. Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea, and Ph.D. student, Rutgers University
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Trebor Scholz New School professor, Author, and Founding Director of the Platform Cooperativism Consortium
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Dorleta Urrutia-Onate Ph.D. student, University of Deusto
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Anne-Pauline De Cler Ph.D. Candidate, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
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Vangelis Papadimitropoulos Postdoctoral researcher; Panteion University of Athens
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Mark Esposito Ph.D., École des Ponts in Paris, expert in AI governance, public policy, and business economics
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Akkanut Wantanasombut Ph.D. student, Chulalongkorn University
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Morshed Mannan Lecturer in Global Law and Digital Technologies at Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh
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Lila Gaudêncio Ph.D. candidate, University of Cambridge
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Kenzo Soares Seto ICDE research fellow at The New School, and Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale Law School
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Stefan Ivanovski Ph.D. student, Cornell University
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Ganesh Gopal Ph.D. student, Gandhigram Rural Institute