Check out the work of our students, faculty, and alumni at SCMS 2024! Read more

Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this April! Read more

Alumni Katherine Chandler, Alenda Chang, and Lashon Daley featured their research at MLA 2023. Read more

Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this October! Read more

Alenda Chang joins in an asynchronous roundtable discussion with Tara Fickle, Gregory Grieve, and Chris Patterson on Gaming Plus Project. Read more

Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this June! Read more

Read the review by Kara Stone of "Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games" Read more

BCNM alum Alenda Chang's Reimagining the History of Media Studies through Games, Play, and the Uncanny Valley is in the amazing lineup for the recently published Uncanny Histories in Film and Media! Read more

Watch Alenda Chang present at Penn State on ecology and technology! Read more

BCNM alum Alenda Chang presented at day two of The Damaged Planet, a conference presented by Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM). Read more

Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this May! Read more

Bo Ruburg published an article in Convergence, offering a queer reading of Brent Watanabe’s 2016 video game–based art piece San Andreas Deer Cam, a mod of Grand Theft Auto V in which a computer-controlled deer wanders the game’s extensive open world.  Read more

Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this April 2022!

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Natalia Zuluaga in conversation with Alenda Y. Chang and Jason Edward Lewis on Shift Space 2.0. Read more

Alenda Y Chang's review of Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene is featured in the Winter 2021 issue of the journal: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment.  Read more

Check out our faculty and alumni at this year's Modern Language Association annual conference. Read more

Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this past December 2021! Read more

Check out the work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web! Read more

Computer games can address ecological concerns. But is a game only ecological if it explicitly deals with environmental issues on the content level? Read more

BCNM alum Alenda Chang's 2019 book Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games was reviewed Media+Environment.  Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni around the web this August! Read more

Alenda Chang's Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games was recently reviewed by Gamers with Glasses. Read more

Alenda Chang's Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games was recently reviewed in journal Critical Inquiry. Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this June! Read more

BCNM alum Alenda Chang was recently featured on the Gamers with Glasses podcast where she discussed video games and environmentalism, among other interesting topics. Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web in May! Read more

BCNM alum Alenda Chang was featured in a rountable discussion in celebration of the online journal Media + Environment. Read more

BCNM alum and UCSB media studies professor Alenda Chang is a featured speaker in the Univeristy of Delaware "Intersections of Video Games and Culture" speaker series.  Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this April! Read more

BCNM alum Alenda Chang is being featured in artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen's online VR ecological art event, focused on the intersection between ecology, sustainability, and technologies.

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Alenda Chang was recently interviewed by Serpentine Galleries. Check it out! Read more

Alenda Chang was recently featured on the podcast, Doing our Bit, to discuss rambunctious video games. Read more

The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by 13 BCNM students, faculty, and alumni! Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this February! Read more

BCNM faculty, alumni, and graduate student participate in MLA's 2021 Conference. Read more

Alum Alenda Chang features on Gamers with Glasses podcast to discuss Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games. Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this December! Read more

Alumn Alenda Chang's Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games is reviewed in ISLE. Read more

Playing Nature is her first book which examines the perennially murky space between nature and technology. Read more

Sam Illingworth reviewed alum Alenda's Chang latest book on ecology in video games. Read more

Media+Environment publishes its latest issue, with three new essays on reconciling art and science. Read more

Alum Alenda Chang's book is reviewed in Digital Culture and Education Read more

"The landscapes we inhabit are in part a product of our representations, and increasingly they will need to be consciously designed rather than left to chance." Read more

Check out the amazing talks and discussions around the work of our faculty and alumni in June 2020! Read more

Alenda Chang, BCNM alum, is on the advisory board for Video Games and the Humanities, a series that frames scholarly approaches to video games in the humanities. Read more

Listen to Alenda Chang talk about the environment and the natural world in games on the Super Gamer Podcast! Read more

BCNM alum Alenda Chang's new book was featured in Chroniques Vidéoludiques! Read more

BCNM Alum Alenda Chang's work was featured in the Savoirs section of France Culture. Read more

BCNM Alum Alenda Chang published "Une Vie Bien Jouée / A Life Well Played: The Cultural Legacy of Game Designer Muriel Tramis" in Feminist Media Histories. Read more

Foreword Reviews recently featured Alenda Chang's Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games. Read more

Alum Alenda Chang's book Playing Nature was reviewed in Science. Read more

Alenda Chang and her colleagues established an online journal Media+Environment. Check out the UCSB in depth discussion here! Read more

The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by eight BCNM students, faculty and alumni! Read more

Alenda Chang's article, "Between Plants and Polygons: SpeedTrees and an Even Speedier History of Digital Morphogenesis" was included in the December 2019 issue of the journal "Natural Media". Read more

Alum Alenda Chang is one of the co-editors for the inaugural ecomedia research journal, Media+Environment.  Read more

Last year, both BCNM students and alumni presented compelling new research at annual meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts 2019. Read more

Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our faculty, students, and alumni in January 2020! Read more

Four BCNM alumni participated at 4S 2019 in September, the annual meeting for the Society for Social Studies of Science. Read more

More in the media from faculty Ken Goldberg, Alex Saum, Claudia von Vacano and Jacob Gaboury; and alumni Trevor Paglen, Bo Ruberg, Alenda Chang and Jen Schradie. Read more

The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment's Thirteenth Biennial Conference was held at UC Davis in June. Read more

Can video games help raise awareness about ecological causes? Alum Alenda Chang weighs in on the debate in a recent Le Monde article on video games and environmentalism. Read more

Alenda serves as one of the founding co-editors of a new journal, Media + Environment. Read more

The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by thirteen BCNM students, faculty, and alumni! Read more

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