Dr. Deseriis’ research explores cultural and political dimensions of Internet-based activism, the production of new forms of subjectivity in the network society, and genealogies of experimental forms of authorship. His book Improper Names: Collective Pseudonyms from the Luddites to Anonymous (University of Minnesota Press, 2015) brings together some of these threads by examining the contentious politics and the struggles for control of a shared alias from the early nineteenth century to the age of networks. Deseriis’ writings have also appeared in the Journal of Communication Inquiry, Theory & Event, Radical History Review, Critical Communication/Cultural Studies, Culture Machine, Subjectivity, and are forthcoming in Theory, Culture & Society.