Demos Staff overview
Carl Miller
Research Director at CASM
- Telephone
- carl.miller@demos.co.uk
Carl is co-founder and Research Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media (CASM) at Demos.
Carl is co-founder and Research Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos.
Carl focuses on finding ways to understand social media in its full scale, scope and complexity by combining sociology, anthropology, computer science and artificial intelligence. He is interested in the creation of social media science as a reliable, powerful and ethical discipline that can inform our responses to social and political problems.
With Sir David Omand and Jamie Bartlett, he coined the term ‘SOCMINT’ – social media intelligence – in the Demos report #Intelligence, the first framework for the ethical and effective collection of social media intelligence for public security. He is also co-author of Truth, Lies and the Internet, which looked at young people’s critical thinking online, and The Power of Unreason, a report into the use of conspiracy theories by extremist groups.
He is currently researching:
- the use of social media by law enforcement agencies
- social media and citizen journalism
- the ethics of intrusive SOCMINT and non-intrusive social media research
- the ability of social media research to generate insight into political and social attitudes
- how social media is changing society: beliefs; affiliations, identities and activities
He is also a Research Associate at the King’s Policy Institute at King’s College London. He studied History at Cambridge and holds the top MA distinction in War Studies from King’s College London (2009).
- Authors
- Jamie Bartlett, Carl Miller
- Publication Date
- 2010-08-27
- Publication Type
- Pamphlet
The Power of Unreason, the first in a series of reports by Demos on emerging themes in extremism and terrorism, examines the role played by conspiracy theories in extremist groups.
- Authors
- Jamie Bartlett, Carl Miller
- Publication Date
- 2011-09-29
- Publication Type
- Report
This report examines the ability of young people in Britain to critically evaluate information they consume online.
- Authors
- Sir David Omand, Jamie Bartlett, Carl Miller
- Publication Date
- 2012-04-24
- Publication Type
- Pamphlet
This pamphlet outlines a legal, principled grounding for the use of social media for intelligence purposes.
- Authors
- Jamie Bartlett, Carl Miller, Jeremy Crump, Lynne Middleton
- Publication Date
- 2013-03-25
- Publication Type
- Report
This report is an in-depth analysis of the police's use of social media to monitor intelligence, engage with the community, and tackle crime.
Truth, lies and the internet
Jamie Bartlett, Carl MillerThis projects asks the extent to which young people can discriminate between the wealth of information found online.
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The Centre for the Analysis of Social Media
Jamie Bartlett, Carl Miller, Sid Bennett, Rutger Birnie, Evrim CamuzThe Centre produces new political, social and policy insight and understanding through social media research.
MoreFreedom of information?
Carl Miller predicts it will take a major FOI scandal to finally reign in the commercial sector's ambition to 'hoover up' all our data.
The bloggers strike back
Jamie Bartlett and Carl Miller describe their recent report on conspiracy theories and the online reaction.