Jamie Bartlett is the Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media (CASM) at the think-tank Demos, where he has become one of the UK’s leading thinkers on politics and technology. He is also author of The People vs Tech: How the Internet Is Killing Democracy (and How We Save It) published in 2018 about the relationship between technology and democracy, Radicals (2017) about political outsiders and best-selling The Dark Net (2014) about internet subcultures, which has been translated into 13 languages. Jamie also co-authored #intelligence with Sir David Omand, which explores the use of internet intelligence by the security services and the police. His Ted Talk about how dark net technology is changing the nature of cybercrime has been viewed almost 3 million times. His areas of expertise range from social media monitoring and analytics (including in elections) internet culture and ‘the dark net’, crypto-currencies, surveillance technology, machine learning, automated sentiment analysis, big data, cyber privacy and law, and social media research ethics.

He is also a technology blogger for the Spectator and regularly writes about how the internet is changing politics and society, including for The Sunday Times, the Guardian, Foreign Policy, and The Telegraph. He recently presented a major BBC2 documentary series The Secrets of Silicon Valley about technology disruption to economies and politics.

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