Daniela Jaramillo-Dent

Daniela Jaramillo-Dent is Senior Research and Teaching Associate at the Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ), University of Zurich and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society, Università della Svizzera italiana. She is an internet scholar whose research and teaching span influencer cultures, critical platform studies, creative AI, and algorithmic inequalities. Her work examines how algorithmic logics, platform governance, and immaterial labor and value shape content creation, creativity, visibility, and participation, with a sustained focus on diasporic communities, Latin America, and the Majority World. Additionally, she develops and teaches visual and platform-based methods for examining digital cultures and human-computer interaction. She serves as Board Student and Early Career Representative at the International Communication Association (ICA), Key Regional Leader of the TikTok Cultures Research Network (Curtin University, Australia), Latin America AI Lead at the Inclusive AI Lab (Utrecht University, Netherlands).