Lorenzo Mosca is Associate Professor at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence. He has been involved in several national and European research projects such as “Europub.Com – The Transformation of Political Mobilisation and Communication in European Public Spheres” (FP5), “Demos – Democracy in Europe and the Mobilization of Society” (FP6), “Younex – Youth, unemployment, and exclusion in Europe” (FP7). He currently coordinates a local research unit in the project “Comparing Social Media and Political Participation across EU” (http://webpoleu.altervista.org).

He has been among the founding members of the Journal Partecipazione e Conflitto (http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco). He is associate editor of the journals “South European Society and Politics” and “International Journal of E-Politics”, as well as member of the editorial board of the “European Journal of Communication”. He is fellow of Cosmos – The Centre in Social Movement Studies (http://cosmos.eui.eu).

Research interests: political participation, political communication, online politics, and movement parties