Carl Miller

Carl Miller is the Research Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media (CASM) at Demos, the UK's leading cross-party policy think tank. He looks at how social media is changing society and politics, and how it can be used to inform decisions and improve choices.

CASM is Demos’ digital research and technology hub, studying how the rise of the digital world affects individuals, countries and the world. Carl works on the interaction of technology on everything from democracy, participation and counter-terrorism to hate crime, health, data activism and disaster response. He has worked with government departments responsible for health, civil contingencies, and policing.

In presentations, Carl touches on subjects including social media and elections, digital democracy, understanding events through social media, cyber-bullying, hate crime, misogyny and abuse online, bitcoin and crypto-currencies and the value of identity and belief in a digital world. He examines evidence-based decision-making using real-time social media research, modelling and prediction

Carl is the author of The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab, a look at how old certainties, particularly where power is concerned, are dying. Giant corporations collapse, newspapers disappear, national governments lose control; to be replaced by what? Uncertainty, and a world increasingly run online. Facebook and Twitter have more influence over elections than any news outlet. More crime happens online than in the 'real' world. Carl looks at where power now lies, what it looks like, and how if affects us. This is exemplified in his latest podcast, the critically acclaimed Kill List, which charts his discovery of a dark web contract killer network.

Carl is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Policy Institute, King’s College London and has written for publications including Wired, New Scientist, The Sunday Times, the Telegraph and The Guardian.