June 2, 2026
King's College London
Deadline: February 1, 2026
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/
We look forward to bringing different corners of the field together in London!
Questions or inquiries? Feel free to reach out to the organizing team at creatorcon@kcl.ac.uk.
With excitement,
Tom Divon (on behalf of the organizing team)
