AJ Cordeiro
Assistant Professor
The Creative School
RTA School of Media
Toronto, Ontario
aj@torontomu.ca
Mobile:
(416) 342-3967
Office:
(416) 979-5000 ext. 554632
Fluent in French
Bio/Research
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, ince...
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Bio/Research
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.
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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.
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PR and Communications Specialist
denee.rudder@torontomu.ca
Karen Benner
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karen.benner@torontomu.ca
(416) 979-5000 ext. 553494
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PR and Communications Specialist
denee.rudder@torontomu.ca
Karen Benner
Director, University Communications
karen.benner@torontomu.ca
(416) 979-5000 ext. 553494
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