Daniella Gáti reviews Bo's book for Information and Culture Read more

Bo Ruberg gave the First Forum 2021 Graduate Student Conference Keynote address on October 21, 2021. Read more

BCNM alum Bo Ruberg has been promoted to Associate Professor at UC Irvine! Read more

Bo Ruberg speaks at AoIR 2021 on the relationship between video games and political participation. Read more

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

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

Bo Ruberg & Rainforest Scully-Blaker publish Making players care: The ambivalent cultural politics of care and video games in the International Journal of Cultural Studies! Read more

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

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

Check out the amazing work of our alumni around the web this March! Read more

Bo Ruberg was recently featured on a Periscope livestream to discuss Co-Opting AI & Games. Check it out! Read more

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

Bo Ruberg is a guest on the sixth episode of public lecture series "Critical Perspectives on Technology." Read more

BCNM alum Bo Ruberg's book The Queer Games Avant-Garde is reviewed in the Information Communication & Society Journal. Read more

Congratulations to BCNM alum Bo Ruberg for receieving a Stonewall Book Award! Read more

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

Bo Ruberg and Daniel Lark recently published a paper titled "Livestreaming from the bedroom: Performing intimacy through domestic space on Twitch"! Read more

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

Bo Ruberg leads a conversation with fellow designers Jess Marcotte and Dietrich Squinkifer to talk about queer game design and the thought processes behind it. Read more

Bo Ruberg contributes to the first edition of Game Studies textbook Independent Videogames. Read more

Bo Ruberg has recently joined colleagues in film and media studies and art history as an associate editor of Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism.  Read more

Bo Ruberg's podcast interview on PlayThink is now available!  Read more

Bo Ruberg's and Amanda Cullen's article has been published on Digital Culture and Society!  Read more

BCNM Alum Bo Ruberg features in First Monday with their article "SURVIVORS: Archiving the history of bulletin board systems and the AIDS crisis" Read more

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

Alum Bo Ruberg co-edits this great new series from NYU Press. Read more

Betsy Brey reviews Bo Ruberg's book in "The Queer Games We Play." Read more

"In the era of algorithms and big data [...] the issue of who is or is not “counted” profoundly affects visibility, access, and power in the digital realm." Read more

Check out the awesome presentations and features of our faculty, student, and alumni work across the web this past July! Read more

"The powers and pitfalls of queer indie game-making: An interview with Mo Cohen" appears in this Bloomsbury edition. Read more

Bo Ruberg, BCNM alum, publishes article "'Obscene, pornographic, or otherwise, objectionable'; Biased definitions of sexual content in videogame live streaming." Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni in May 2020! Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni in April 2020! Read more

CHI has been cancelled due to COVID-19, but let's celebrate the incredible work of our students, faculty, and alumni who were slated to present! Read more

Bo Ruberg's book 'Queer Games Avant-Garde' was featured in 'March’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books' in Lambda Literary Read more

BCNM Alum Bo Ruberg published an article in Communication, Culture and Critique. Read more

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

Bo Ruberg was featured in Television and New Media's special issue, "Contested Formations of Digital Game Labor."  Read more

Bo Ruberg contributed to an overview on the work in Feminist and Queer Game Studies for Oxford Bibliographies. Read more

Bo Ruberg published "Nothing But a 'Titty Streamer'" in Critical Studies in Media Communication with Amanda Cullen and Kathryn Brewster. Read more

Bo Ruberg's Video Games Have Always Been Queer was reviewed by Cenk Koknar in Critical Studies in Media & Communication. Read more

Alum Bo Ruberg keynoted the UC Irvine Esports conference with a presentation on diversity and Esports. Read more

Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our faculty, students, and alumni! 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

More in the media from faculty Ken Goldberg and Koci Hernandez; and alumni Trevor Paglen, danah boyd, Jen Schradie, Tiffany Ng, Ritwik Banerji, Bo Ruberg, and Jane McGonigal.  Read more

The article covers a critical issue facing those teaching videogames today. Read more

BCNM alum Bo Ruberg's book Video Games Have Always Been Queer reviewed in Feminist Media Studies. Read more

We're thrilled to see our alum Bo Ruberg leading the fantastic new Inclusive Streaming Initiative! Read more

Alum Bo Ruberg was a guest on YouTube channel, Team LFG  Read more

Ruberg presents "Necklines and ‘Naughty Bits’: Constructing and Regulating Bodies in Live Streaming Community Guidelines." Read more

Check out the highlights for this responsive series that delves into the impact of new media on our current political and public climate. Read more

Bo's article appeared in a Special Issue of Television & New Media on Contested Formations of Digital Game Labor. Read more

A great recap of Bo's visit to UCLA was featured in The Daily Bruin. Read more

Ken Goldberg at BrainBar, on home robots and the relationship between robots and retirement. Nicholas de Monchaux on the moon suit at the Santa Fe Institute. Alum Bo Ruberg's Video Games Have Always Been Queer in Real Life. Alum Jane McGonigal on the gamification of the warehouse. Alum Trevor Paglen on Our Privacy Mess and at Art Basel. Alum Jen Schradie at the Microworks Platform Conference. Read more

Jacob Gaboury and alum Bo Ruberg will speak at the Diversity and Inclusion Summit. Read more

Bo chats about the history of video games through the lens of LGBTQ theory! Read more

Bo's incredibly popular Game Developer's Conference lecture is now available for free to view online! Read more

Bo Ruberg is a featured guest on a special edition episode titled, "Queer Games Studies Special Issue." Read more