Bio
Stefano Tortorici is a PhD Candidate in Political Science and Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Italy), where he is a member of the Centre on Social Movement Studies (COSMOS), and a Research Affiliate at the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy (ICDE) at The New School in New York City. His research focuses on platform and AI cooperativism and the challenges faced by platform cooperatives in improving working conditions, developing sustainable organizations, and advancing alternative values in the digital economy.
Stefano studied at the Universities of Turin, Bologna, Paris Nanterre, Milano-Bicocca, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and has conducted research at the Platform Cooperativism Consortium at The New School, the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford, the Nexa Center for Internet and Society at the Politecnico di Torino, and the Gino Germani Institute at the University of Buenos Aires. His work has been published in Internet Policy Review, Euricse, Routledge, Harvard Business Review, and Jacobin Magazine. He has also co-convened the conferences Countervailing Platform Power at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence and Cooperative AI at the Istanbul Planning Agency in Istanbul. Stefano also joined the SASE network Alternatives to Capitalism in 2026 as a co-organizer.