Jamie Bartlett is the author of four books: The Missing Cryptoqueen (2022), 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 and online crime. His books have been translated... Read More
Jamie Bartlett is the author of four books: The Missing Cryptoqueen (2022), 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 and online crime. 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 on technology for The Spectator.
Bartlett’s TED talk ‘How the mysterious dark net is going mainstream’ has been watched over 5 million times. His main topics are cyber security and privacy online, cryptoscams and online fraud, internet subcultures, and the impact of technology on politics.
In 2017, Jamie Bartlett 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 he wrote and presented the award winning BBC podcast series ‘The Missing Cryptoqueen’ which exposed the biggest ever cryptocurrency fraud, which reached number 1 in the iTunes chart.