A groundbreaking examination of the darkest corners of the internet
Jamie Bartlett is the bestselling author of The Dark Net, Radicals, and The People Vs Tech, which was longlisted for the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Writing and won the 2019 Transmission Prize. He founded the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think-tank Demos and regularly writes on technology and society for the Spectator, the Sunday Times and elsewhere. In 2017 Jamie presented the two-part BBC TWO documentary series The Secrets of Silicon Valley. His TedTalk about dark net drugs markets has been watched nearly six million times. In 2019 his critically acclaimed BBC podcast series The Missing Cryptoqueen reached number 1 on the iTunes charts, and has been downloaded millions of times.
A fascinating and disturbing journey through the furthest recesses
of the Internet. Jamie Bartlett is an expert guide... he shines an
invaluable light on a world that remains determinedly opaque.
*Independent*
A hell of an achievement... Buy it and read it.
*The Times*
Eye-opening … Bartlett is an informal yet informed guide … As
befits a cross-party intellectual, he minimizes binary
distinctions, conveying instead a mixture of conservative disquiet
and liberal tolerance. The tales he tells are exemplary,
titillating and sometimes frightening
*Times Literary Supplement*
Bartlett anatomises the usual bogeymen and demonstrates that
they’re real.The Dark Net is, for anyone engaged with the web and
the effects it is having on our culture, necessary reading... a
flashlight in a dark, dark cellar.
*Spectator*
A fascinating and disturbing exploration of the outer edges of the
internet and the human mind.
*Josh Cohen*
[A] thorough and assiduously researched account of the deviantly
erotic, subversive and criminal aspects of web life.
*Sunday Times*
A confident and well-informed guide... By meeting the people behind
the online activity, Bartlett humanises it.
*New Scientist*
The Dark Net offers smart, provoking reportage from the crooked
crannies of digital culture, married to a quietly impressive
analysis of how technology is amplifying both the best and the
worst of us. Required reading for anyone looking to escape media
hysteria and get to grips with the 21st century's most compelling,
discomforting complexities.
*Tom Chatfield*
A picturesque tour of this disquieting netherworld… the darkest
recesses of the internet, for better and for worse, and being
illuminated.
*The New York Review of Books*
A judgement-free look at the mechanics of trolling and other
internet bad behaviour and generates more light than heat.
*New Statesman, Books of the Year*
Reveals a hidden, seedy world where people lurk behind pseudonyms
and dupe others into revealing their bodies on camera to be used
against them in public shaming. If you’re shocked to discover that
last year approximately 20 per cent of drug users bought their
stash online, you’ll find this fascinating. Bartlett is an able
guide on a journey through the margins of the web.
*Independent, Books of the Year*
A well-researched book, studded with enlightening interviews
*Mail on Sunday*
A gripping read, more thrilling and chilling than many a fictional
tale of the digital could ever be.
*Sciencebase*
The book's great contribution is non-sensationalist reporting about
very touchy subjects. If we're going to keep making laws about this
stuff, we need this kind of sanity.
*ZDNet*
This book ticks all of my boxes: fascinating subcultural studies, a
brave nosedive into often scary worlds, and a pacey writing style
that makes you think you’re reading a good thriller. I recommend
this book to anyone who wants to know what the depths of human
depravity look like, but can’t get the time off work to find out
for themselves.
*Left Foot Forward*
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