bullet">AI and Automated Production Workflows: Generative tools, automation in editing and publishing, newsroom/creative pipelines, quality control, authorship, and governance.

Platforms, Infrastructure, and Scalability: Cloud production, distribution architectures, interoperability, metrics and monetization, content moderation systems, and platform power.

Live, Remote, and Hybrid Media Production: Distributed crews, virtual studios, real-time collaboration, latency and reliability, event media, and new hybrid audience formats.

Labor, Institutions, and Public Trust: Shifting professional roles, skills and education, precarity and union responses, policy/regulation, legitimacy, and misinformation/provenance.

Format

The conference is organised as a hybrid knowledge experience, integrating in-person and online participation within a unified scholarly environment. All accepted proposals become Presentation Pages, where presenters upload abstracts, media, and reflections, and where delegates engage in discussion before, during, and after the event.

In-person sessions in Toronto are interwoven with live online presentations and asynchronous contributions within a single integrated program. Regardless of participation mode, all delegates have access to the full schedule, session media, and a growing digital archive. Across formats, the emphasis is on reciprocal, human-scale exchange—conversation, reflection, and collaborative inquiry rather than one-way presentation.

Publication Pathways

Presenters are invited to develop their conference contributions for possible publication in The International Journal of Communication and Media Studies. The journal provides a pathway for participants to extend work first shared at the conference into a fully developed scholarly article. The journal is Hybrid Open Access, supporting both broad dissemination and rigorous peer-reviewed publication.

Presenters may also propose longer-form works for the Communication and Media Studies Book Imprint, which publishes monographs and edited collections advancing research and practice in the fields of communication, media, and public culture.

Key dates

Early proposal period: Now -12 March 2027
Early registration period: Now -12 April 2027

For full details and submission guidelines, visit the conference website.

Sincerely,

Stephen Sheps, Conference Chair, RTA School of Media (Sport Media), The Creative School, TMU, Canada

Joe Recupero, Conference Chair, RTA School of Media (Sport Media), The Creative School, TMU, Canada

AJ Cordeiro, Conference Chair, RTA School of Media (Media Production), The Creative School, TMU, Canada

Eric Freedman, Research Network Chair, Maryland Institute College of Art, United States of America

Jesús Miguel Flores Vivar, Research Network Chair (ES), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, España

Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, Chief Social Scientist, Common Ground Research Networks, United States of America

📣 CfP: 12th International Conference on Communication & Media Studies