Stefano Tortorici

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

6 recent pubblications: 

• Tortorici, S. & Scholz, T. (2026). Socialist Co-ops against Silicon Valley Empires. Jacobin Magazine. Translated into Italian. 
• Tortorici, S. (2026). The Blown Head Gasket Effect. The Rise and Struggles of the Drivers Cooperative in New York City. Internet Policy Review 15(1). 
• Tortorici, S. (2026). The Challenges of Platform Cooperatives and the Path Ahead. Global Cooperative Economics and Movements. A Research Companion. Routledge. 
• Tortorici, S. (2025). Mapping Platform Cooperatives: Identities, Dimensions and Challenges, Euricse Working Paper Series, 138|25. 
• Scholz, T. & Tortorici, S. (2025). Cooperative AI? Institute For the Cooperative Digital Economy.
• Scholz, T. & Tortorici, S. (2025). 5 Ways Cooperatives Can Shape the Future of AI, Harvard Business Review, 25 June. Open access and available also in Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Arabic.