He chaired a panel and presented several papers from his first monograph `The Left and Digital Politics’

Marco Guglielmo presented research from its first monograph, ‘The Left and Digital Politics’ at the General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Researh in Dublin (12-15 August). Marco presented a paper entitled: ‘Digital activism in left-wing parties: the micro-influencer and the community organiser'. Marco’s findings suggest that while some parties use digital tools mainly to professionalise activists by turning them into micro-influencers, other, more radical left-wing parties, draw on community organising digital cultures to prompt protests.

The analysis of how left-wing parties tap into the hegemony of platform societies is at the core of Marco’s book, which will be published, open access, in January 2025 with the prestigious ‘Critical Digital and Social Media Studies Series’ of the University of Westminster Press.