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Jaron Harambam is an Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam in the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, focusing on Cultural Sociology. His research centers around public disputes, truth, and the digitalized public sphere, specifically examining conspiracy theories, news platform politics, and artificial intelligence in content moderation and recommender systems. Harambam's work participates in the design of future digital worlds, ensuring they align with democratic public values. He authored the monograph 'Contemporary Conspiracy Culture: Truth and Knowledge in an Era of Epistemic Instability' published in 2020 by Routledge. He has also held a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship at KU Leuven, Belgium and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Information Law at the University of Amsterdam, contributing to the Fair News Project, which studies the role of algorithms in news provision. Harambam earned his PhD cum laude from Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2017 with a dissertation titled ‘The Truth is Out There: Conspiracy Culture in the Age of Epistemic Instability,' which was awarded 'Best Dissertation 2017-19' by the Dutch Sociology Association. He is the chair of an open-access peer-reviewed journal and a member of the European network of scholars focusing on conspiracy theories.
University of Amsterdam • Amsterdam, Netherlands
Researching and teaching in the fields of media, truth, and politics, focusing on the impact of digitalization and conspiracy theories.
Includes departments like Economics, Business Administration, Finance, and Marketing.