Stefano Tortorici

Stefano Tortorici is a PhD Candidate in Political Science and Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence, Italy), 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 explores how platform cooperatives navigate the challenges of finance and scale.

He is currently completing his dissertation, An Alternative to Digital Capitalism? Borders and Trajectories of Platform Cooperatives, and co-organizing two international conferences: Countervailing Platform Power (Florence) and Cooperative AI (Istanbul). On the intersection of cooperatives and artificial intelligence, he co-authored an article with Professor Trebor Scholz published in the Harvard Business Review.

Stefano holds degrees in Philosophy (University of Turin) and Contemporary History (University of Bologna), and has conducted research at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Université Paris Nanterre, and the University of Milano-Bicocca. He has contributed to a collective investigation into Amazon’s expansion in Italy’s Po Valley with the research group Into the Black Box, and was a visiting student researcher at The New School in the summer of 2024. In May and June 2025, he visited the Oxford Internet Institute, where he collaborated with the Fairwork team to expand their evaluation framework for platform cooperatives, integrating cooperative principles into assessments of working conditions and the political values that underpin digital cooperatives.