Marco Deseriis is assistant professor in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences of the Scuola Normale Superiore. Professor Deseriis’ current research focuses on the political values and different conceptions of democracy emdedded in the design of digital democracy platforms such as LiquidFeeback, Rousseau, Loomio and Decidim. His research also explores cultural and political dimensions of Internet-based activism, the production of new forms of subjectivity in the network society, and genealogies of experimental forms of authorship. Deseriis has published the monograph Improper Names: Collective Pseudonyms from the Luddites to Anonymous (University of Minnesota Press, 2015) and co-authored with Giuseppe Marano Net.Art: L’arte della Connessione (Shake Edizioni, 2008). He has also published articles in journals such as Information, Communication & Society, Theory, Culture & Society, International Journal of Communication, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Theory & Event, Radical History Review, Critical Communication/Cultural Studies, Culture Machine and Subjectivity. Deseriis also won prestigious grants such as the Marie Curie Individual Fellowship and Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship. Before joining the Scuola Normale Deseriis was an assistant professor in the Program of Media and Screen Studies at Northeastern University, Boston. He holds a Phd from New York University.

Research interests: Networked media, Internet democracy, technopolitics, hacktivism, and subjectivity