Jamie Bartlett is a British author and journalist, primarily for The Spectator and The Daily Telegraph.[1][2][3] He was a senior
fellow at
Demos and served as director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos until 2017.[4]
In 2013, he covered the rise of
Beppe Grillo's
Five Star Movement in Italy for Demos, chronicling the new political force's emergence and use of social media.[7]
Bartlett has frequently written about online extremism[9] and
free speech,[10] as well as social media trends in Wikipedia,[11] Twitter[12] and Facebook.[13]
In 2017, he published his second book Radicals Chasing Utopia, which covered fringe political movements including transhumanism, psychedelic societies and
anarcho-capitalism.[14][15] He also presented the two part
BBC Two series The Secrets of Silicon Valley.[16]
Bartlett's third book, The People Vs Tech, was released in 2018.[17] It argued that "our fragile political system is being threatened by the digital revolution."[18]
In 2019 he co-wrote and presented the BBC podcast series The Missing Cryptoqueen, which investigated the disappearance of Dr
Ruja Ignatova, founder of the fake
cryptocurrencyOneCoin. The podcast also examines how OneCoin operates, and its human and social cost.