About

Stefano Tortorici is a PhD Candidate in Political Science and Sociology at Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence, Italy), a member of the Centre on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos), and research affiliate of the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy (ICDE) at the New School of New York. His research explores responses to the challenges of finance and scale in platform cooperatives.

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). 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 inquiry into Amazon’s expansion in Italy’s Po Valley with Into the Black Box and was a visiting student researcher at The New School in the summer 2024. In May and June 2025, he will visit the Oxford Internet Institute, where he is collaborating with the Fairwork team to expand their framework to assess platform cooperatives. His work focuses on integrating cooperative principles into the evaluation of working conditions and political values that underpin digital cooperatives.

Research Interests

Platform Economy, Platform Cooperatives, Cooperative AI, Digital Solidarity Economies,  Political Economy, Sociology of Work.

Positions at the OII

• Visiting Research Student, May 2025 -