Stefano Tortorici

Stefano Tortorici is pursuing a PhD in Political Science and Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore, where he is a member of the Centre for the Study of Social Movements (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 New School and the Oxford Internet Institute. He has recently published in Internet Policy Review, Euricse, Routledge, and Harvard Business Review, and co-convened the conferences Countervailing Platform Power (Scuola Normale Superiore, Firenze) and Cooperative AI (Istanbul Planning Agency, Istanbul). Since September 2025, he has been a visiting researcher at the Nexa Center for Internet & Society at Politecnico di Torino.

5 recent pubblications: 

• 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.