Since October 2003, under the supervision of Professor John Keane and Dr. Simon Joss, I am undertaking a PhD Research at the Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) at the University of Westminster, London.

The subject of my PhD is the future of political activism in the age of social and communication media networks. My aim is to investigate the relation between the Internet and the political public sphere in order to outline a new theory of power and political activism that heavily rely on new media as its sine qua non of existence. Read more

 

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.