Marco Deseriis is assistant professor in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore. Deseriis’s 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, Consul, 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 experimental forms of authorship.

Dr. 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 top-ranking journals in media and communication studies such as New Media & Society, Information, Communication & Society, Theory, Culture & Society, International Journal of Communication, and the Journal of Communication Inquiry, among others.

Marco won prestigious grants such as the European Commission’s Marie Curie Individual Fellowship for the research project Scalable Democracy, which he conducted at the Scuola Normale Superiore in 2016-18, and the Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Transnational Media, which he received from Eugene Lang College The New School of New York in 2011-12.

Before joining the Scuola Normale, he was an assistant professor in the Program of Media and Screen Studies at Northeastern University, Boston. He holds a Phd from New York University (2011).

Research interests: Digital democracy, technopolitics, hacktivism, social movement media, and movement parties