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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Dorleta Urrutia-Onate Ph.D. student, University of Deusto
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Kenzo Soares Seto ICDE research fellow at The New School, and Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale Law School
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Tara Merk Ph.D. candidate, CNRS/Panthéon-Assas University Paris II
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Morshed Mannan Lecturer in Global Law and Digital Technologies at Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh
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Anne-Pauline De Cler Ph.D. Candidate, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
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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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Vangelis Papadimitropoulos Postdoctoral researcher; Panteion University of Athens
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Ganesh Gopal Ph.D. student, Gandhigram Rural Institute
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Akkanut Wantanasombut Head of the ISSIE Research Group at Chulalongkorn University
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Mark Esposito Professor of Technology Policy at Northeastern University
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Stefano Tortorici Ph.D. student, Scuola Normale Superiore
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Stefan Ivanovski Ph.D. student, Cornell University
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Lila Gaudêncio Ph.D. candidate, University of Cambridge
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Trebor Scholz New School professor, Author, and Founding Director of the Platform Cooperativism Consortium