Carl Miller co-founded, and is the Research Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos, the first UK think tank institute dedicated to studying the digital world. He is the author of over a dozen major reports on the affect of the digital world on society and politics, and how it can be studied. This includes the influence of the Internet on radicalisation, policing and counter-terrorism, hate crime and social media, digital situational awareness, digital democracy, and changing identities and beliefs in the digital world.
His work has been covered widely by national and international media, including the BBC, ITN & Sky News; The Financial Times, Prospect Magazine, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Sunday Times, Foreign Policy Magazine and Wired. He commentates regularly on the digital world for Sky News, and has regularly written for The Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times.
He is an expert advisor on social media for the Care Quality Commission, the external social media expert for the UK Government Civil Contingencies Secretariat, is a member of the Independent Digital Ethics Panel for Policing, and an external advisor on the current cross-Governmental review on the use of data science within the public sector. He is also currently a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College, London.