AJ Cordeiro
AJ Cordeiro (he/him/his) is an Assistant Professor at the RTA School of Media, specializing in multi-camera, documentary, podcasting, live streaming, lighting and grip, and audio engineering. His research examines media production as a determinant of democratic information���how the decisions, incentives, and infrastructures behind the news shape what citizens can know.
He originated the framework of democratic legibility���the capacity of citizens to read, interpret, and act on the information systems governing democratic life���and its seven derivative constructs. An element of this work received the 2026 CRTC���CCA Prize for Excellence in Policy Research (national, Master's category).
Before 91心頭利, he spent twelve years in production and teaching at Concordia University. He also writes The Frame, a biweekly public-scholarship newsletter.
AJ welcomes collaboration on journal articles, grant proposals, conference panels, peer review, and graduate supervision in media production, computational journalism, AI and democracy, and misinformation.
The Frame is a bi-weekly Substack newsletter about democratic legibility: the capacity of citizens to read, interpret, and act on the information systems that govern democratic life. .
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- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Documentary filmmaking
- Propaganda
- Democratic legibility
- Journalism and news
- Media production
- 2026-Present - Founder and author, The Frame with AJ Cordeiro, a public scholarship initiative translating original research on journalism, artificial intelligence, civic media infrastructure, and democratic communication for broader audiences.
- 2026-Present - Creator and lead researcher, LUCIA (Local Urban Civic Insight Auditor), an AI-enhanced civic media research platform for indexing, aligning, and analyzing municipal livestreams, agendas, transcripts, and public records.
- April 2026 - Granted Professional membership with the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE).
- April 2026 - Granted Professional membership with the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ).
- March 2026 - Granted Companion membership with the Canadian Society of Cinematographers (CSC).
- February 2026 - Granted BIPOC membership with the Documentary Organization of Canada (DocOrg).
- February 2026 - Educational Consultant for Multicamera Simulator - Kalba Lab (Grigory Skomorovskiy, lead researcher).
- January 2026-Present - Collaborative researcher with Dr. Nicole Blanchett and Prof. Angela Misri on PATRON, the Local Politics Search Wizard (SSHRC).