Jamie Bartlett – Dark Net

Author of the famed work The Dark Net, journalist and an engaging Keynote Speaker; Jamie lights up the hidden corners of the internet to reveal the strange subcultures and protagonists that inhabit it – from Bitcoin miners to neo-Nazis.

VEP At CASM

As Head of the Violence and Extremism Programme at the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think-tank Demos; Jamie Bartlett has researched and written extensively about radical political parties and movements across Europe. With a particular focus on the role of social media and modern technology.

The Centre combines automated data extraction and sentiment analysis with social science statistics, analysis and ethics in; order to produce insightful and robust policy research.

Police Intelligence

Jamie Bartlett also co-authored #intelligence with Sir David Omand. Which explores the use of internet intelligence by the security services and the police. His second book, Radicals Chasing Utopia: Inside the Rogue Movements Trying to Change the World; explores the individuals, groups and movements that reject the way we live today and if radicals are the only group who have changed the world.

Jamie Bartlett Focus Areas

His areas of expertise range from social media monitoring and analytics, Internet culture and ‘the dark net’, crypto-currencies, surveillance technology, machine learning, automated sentiment analysis, big data, cyber privacy and law, social media research ethics, and the reform to RIPA 2000.

Jamie Bartlett Other Work

Prior to working for Demos, Jamie Bartlett was a research associate at the international humanitarian agency, Islamic Relief; and conducted field research in Pakistan and Bangladesh. He is also a tech blogger for the Telegraph and regularly contributes to publications on how the internet is changing politics and society; including the New York Times, The Times, the Guardian, Foreign Policy, and Prospect.

Cutting Edge

Jamie Bartlett presented his first major BBC series, continually publishes and research work on; radical political movements cybercrime and the internet culture. Jamie is at the cutting-edge of revolutionary culture and will be the perfect addition to all kinds of digital events.