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Podcast: Jimmy's Jobs of the Future
Episode: Jamie Bartlett | Internet Subcultures and the Social Media Rage Machine
Description: Jamie Bartlett| Internet Subcultures and the Social Media Rage Machine
Jimmy interviews writer and podcaster Jamie Bartlett about his hard-to-define career researching internet culture, subcultures, and online-driven movements, shaped by early work at Demos and a fascination with being an early “expert” on emerging online worlds like the darknet.
Bartlett explains how he gains access to difficult contributors through detective-like research and by maintaining fairness and integrity, avoiding overt political positioning to reach audiences across outlets including the BBC, Telegraph, Guardian, Spectator, and varied podcasts.
They discuss how algorithms reward emotion, distort perceptions of public opin...