Jamie Bartlett is a British author and journalist, primarily for ''

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'' and ''

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''. He was a senior

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and served as director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos until 2017.

Education

Bartlett was educated at a state comprehensive school in

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He won a scholarship to study at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

and went on do a master's degree at the

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Career

In 2013, he covered the rise of

Beppe Grillo Giuseppe Piero "Beppe" Grillo (; born 21 July 1948) is an Italian comedian, actor, blogger, and politician. He has been involved in politics since 2009 as the co-founder (together with Gianroberto Casaleggio) of the Italian Five Star Movement ...

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in Italy for Demos, chronicling the new political force's emergence and use of social media. In 2014, Bartlett released his first full-length book, ''

The Dark Net ''The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld'' is a 2014 nonfiction book by Jamie Bartlett (journalist), Jamie Bartlett. It is published in the United Kingdom by Heinemann (publisher), Heinemann, in the United States by Melville House Publishers, ...

.'' The book discusses the

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and

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in broad terms, describing a range of underground and emergent

subculture A subculture is a group of people within a culture that differentiates itself from the parent culture to which it belongs, often maintaining some of its founding principles. Subcultures develop their own norms and values regarding cultural, poli ...

s, including social media racists,

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, darknet drug markets, crypto-anarchists and

transhumanists Transhumanism is a philosophical and intellectual movement which advocates the enhancement of the human condition by developing and making widely available sophisticated technologies that can greatly enhance longevity and cognition. Transhuma ...

. Bartlett has frequently written about online extremism and

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, as well as social media trends in Wikipedia, Twitter and Facebook. In 2017, he published his second book ''Radicals Chasing Utopia'', which covered fringe political movements including transhumanism, psychedelic societies and

anarcho-capitalism Anarcho-capitalism (or, colloquially, ancap) is an anti-statist, libertarian, and anti-political philosophy and economic theory that seeks to abolish centralized states in favor of stateless societies with systems of private property en ...

. He also presented the two part

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series ''The Secrets of Silicon Valley''. Bartlett's third book, ''The People Vs Tech'', was released in 2018. It argued that "our fragile political system is being threatened by the digital revolution." In 2019 he co-wrote and presented the BBC podcast series ''The Missing Cryptoqueen'', which investigated the disappearance of Dr

Ruja Ignatova Ruja Plamenova Ignatova ( bg, Ружа Пламенова Игнатова, Ruža Plamenova Ignatova; born 30 May 1980) is a Bulgarian-born German citizen and convicted fraudster. She is best known as the founder of a fraudulent cryptocurrenc ...

, founder of the fake

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OneCoin OneCoin is a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme conducted by offshore companies OneCoin Ltd, based in Bulgaria and registered in Dubai, and OneLife Network Ltd (registered in Belize), both founded by Ruja Ignatova in concert with Sebastian Gree ...

. The podcast also examines how OneCoin operates, and its human and social cost.

References

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