[Commlist] ICA 2027 Pre-Conference: Centring Creators across Intersecting Ecosystems

ICA 2027 Pre-Conference: Centring Creators across Intersecting 
Ecosystems | June 2, London

We're excited to announce our ICA 2027 pre-conference, "Centring 
Creators across Intersecting Ecosystems: Labour, Agency, and 
Collaboration," taking place on June 2, 2027, at King's College London!

We're bringing together researchers, creators, and industry 
professionals to critically rethink creator and influencer cultures 
beyond the conventional creator-platform relationship. Our goal is to 
explore how creators operate within complex, intersecting ecosystems of 
platforms, governance, communities, brands, agencies, institutions, and 
cultural industries. How do these relationships shape their labour, 
agency, identities, opportunities, ethics, and inequalities? And what 
can we learn by bringing different disciplinary and professional 
perspectives into conversation?

We especially encourage submissions from early-career researchers, MA 
and PhD students, and scholars working across disciplinary boundaries, 
including those whose research intersects with creator cultures but may 
not identify primarily as creator or influencer studies scholarship. 
Beyond traditional papers, we welcome panels, roundtables, 
creator-researcher dialogues, participatory sessions, posters, and 
creative formats that foster meaningful exchange between academic and 
practitioner communities.

Important dates
February 1, 2027: Submission deadline (23:59 GMT)
March 1, 2027: Notification of decisions
April 1, 2027: Preliminary programme announced
June 2, 2027: Pre-conference at King's College London!

*A limited number of scholarships are available to support participation*

Full CFP, submission guidelines, and scholarship details:
https://kingsdh.net/2026/10/13/call-for-papers-centring-creators-across-intersecting-ecosystems-labour-agency-and-collaboration/ 
<https://kingsdh.net/2026/10/13/call-for-papers-centring-creators-across-intersecting-ecosystems-labour-agency-and-collaboration/>

Questions or inquiries? Feel free to reach out to the organizing team at 
(creatorcon /at/ kcl.ac.uk) <mailto:(creatorcon /at/ kcl.ac.uk)>.


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