Marco Deseriis is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore. His research combines critical perspectives in media studies, cultural studies, democratic theory and social movement studies to explore cultural and political dimensions of Internet-based activism and emerging forms of political organization in the network society. More specifically, his current research focuses on the political values embedded in the architecture of digital democracy applications, the impact of such applications on the internal democracy of political parties, and the digital organization of the new climate action movements.

Prof. 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 leading journals in media and communication studies such as New Media & Society, Information, Communication & Society, Theory, Culture & Society, International Journal of Communication, the Journal of Communication Inquiry, and Science, Technology & Human Values, 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, Marco 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