Jamie Bartlett traces the story of how and why social media companies have become the new information gatekeepers, and what the decisions... more
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On 30th September 2022 a coroner in London finds that Molly Russell "...died from an act of self-harm while... more
Jamie Bartlett travels to Minnesota to meet Abrham Meareg Amare. The young academic is seeking asylum in the States following... more
In 2018, the CEOs of our most popular social media companies are standing at a crossroad. After political outcry over... more
One of the strange things about our new media universe, is how innocuous decisions taken in Silicon Valley - turning... more
2016 is a big election year. But something is going very wrong online. Journalists in America and the Philippines start... more
The tech pioneers were right: all this connectivity and sharing is creating a new age of freedom and democracy. A... more
From the rubble of the dot com crash, an ambitious young Harvard student with a passion for hacking and love... more
For years something strange has been happening online, but most of us have no idea what’s really going on. Ethnic... more
It all started with a crazy idea to realise a hippie dream of building a “global consciousness”. The plan was... more
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