Jamie Bartlett

Jamie Bartlett is the author of three books: The People Vs Tech (2018) about data and democracies (Winner of the 2019 Transmission Prize), Radicals (2017) about political outsiders, and the best-selling The Dark Net (2014) about internet subcultures. His books have been translated into 15 languages. He founded the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think-tank Demos, where he specialised in online social movements and using machine learning to study the impact of technology on society. He is a regular commentator on national and international media outlets, and a regular writer for The Spectator. Jamie's TED talk 'How the mysterious dark net is going mainstream' has been watched almost 5 million times. His main topics are cyber security, money laundering and organised crime, new political movements, and internet cultures. In 2017 Jamie presented the two-part BBC TWO documentary series 'The Secrets of Silicon Valley' about how technology was changing politics and society, including Cambridge Analytica's role in the 2016 US election. In 2019/20 he wrote and presented the hit BBC podcast series 'The Missing Cryptoqueen' which exposed the largest ever cryptocurrency scam. This nine-part podcast was downloaded 3.5 million times in four months and reached number one on the UK iTunes charts. The screen rights to The Missing Cryptoqueen were sold to New Regency Television International in a well-publicised heated auction, with the intention of setting the project as a multi-episodic drama.