I graduated in Philosophy from the University of Catania in 1999. There I received the Laurea in Filosofia (equal to a BA and MA in Philosophy). My final thesis concerned the subject of freedom and ethics in the era of the Internet. In 1995-6 I was the recipient of an Erasmus Project Scholarship for study at University College Dublin, in Ireland. Since October 2003, I have been undertaking doctoral research at the Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) at the University of Westminster in London.

The subject of my PhD is the future of political activism in the age of social and communication media networks. The research examines the relationship between the Internet and political public spheres with the aim of developing a new theory of mediated power and political activism.

I am currently a Research Associate at the University of Westminster, and since 2004 I have also been involved in teaching, marking and administering Power, Politics, and the Media, a CSD Masters' course in the International Relations and Political Theory programme.

I am a member of the Steering Group of the University's Democracy Club, whose website I designed and presently maintains (here).

I am an editor of the CSD Bulletin, published by the University of Westminster Press; web content editor of the PhD section of the CSD website (here); and co-ordinator of the Workshops on Methodology series and of the Working Papers Seminars attended by all PhD candidates and academic staff at CSD ( here).

 

Research interests : Democracy and new media; the Internet; theories of power, civil society and the public sphere; group theory; social networks; empirical patterns of activism; China and the network society.

 

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