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AJ Cordeiro

Assistant Professor
EducationBA 2014 - Political Science and Journalism Specialization (Concordia University); MA 2025 - Digital Innovation in Journalism (Concordia University)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tmuaj/ (external link) 

Biography

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 TMU, 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. Read the latest here (external link) .

ORCID Profile (external link) .

  • 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).