Jamie Bartlett is Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think tank Demos. He tweets @JamieJBartlett.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMy arguments on green radicalisation have been misrepresentedJamie Bartlett responds to Adam Ramsay on environmental extremism.
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Published in: HomeBeppe Grillo's Five Star revolutionThere is no telling what the outcome of today's remarkably uncertain Italian elections will be. But the real story might just be Beppe Grillo's Movimento 5 Stelle, which could become the third political force in the country, and set a model for others in Europe to follow.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKShould Britain work with 'extremists' to prevent terrorism? Where do we draw the line?The controversial 'Prevent' strategy, that aims to stop terrorism before it occurs by working with Muslim communities, is now under review. The government have signaled that 'Prevent' will no longer work with 'non-violent extremists', but who will they place under that category, and how will we know where the line is drawn?
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Published in: openEconomyCommon sense Nobel
This month's most surprising Nobel Prize winner was not Barack Obama but Elinor Ostrom, a political scientist from the University of Indiana who picked up the coveted Nobel Memorial Prize for Economic Science.