Congratulations to these amazing students working in the fields of Asian studies, education, computer science, geography, film & media, rhetoric, EECS, architecture, and more! Read more

Sonia K Katyal receives Dukeminier award for her recent writing on gender, sexuality and AI alongside undergraduate Berkeley student Jessica Y Jung.  Read more

Digital disinformation is changing society, but the societal 3 C's (class, community, and context) are changing disinformation, too. Read more

Blockchain Chicken Farm has been selected as one of the three winners of the 2023 $10,000 science and literature awards! Read more

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

Celeste Kidd's lab presented at the Cognitive Development Center Conference 2023. Read more

Congratulations to Isabel Li, Riya Manimaran, and Xiaowen Yuan! Read more

Computer Dating in the Classifieds: Complicating the Cultural History of Matchmaking by Machine Read more

Please join us in welcoming our 2022 cohort of Undergraduate Certificate in New Media students! Read more

BCNM students, faculty, and alumni are all participating in this year's 4S program. Read more

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

Check out BCNM at the 25th ACM Conference! Read more

Clancy Wilmott and Alexis Wood spoke about Indigenous Cartographies for Alternative Futures at NACIS 2022. Read more

Ethnic Studies Associate professor Keith Feldman, History professor Hannah Zeavin, and writer and scholar Ra Malika Imhotep featured at American Studies Association 2022.  Read more

Zeavin publishes on virtual reality, traumatic loss, and magic in Media, Culture, & Society. Read more

Alum Pablo Paredes starts as an Assistant Professor at UMD this Fall. Read more

Ken Goldberg and team present at the 2022 International Symposium on Robotics Research. Read more

BCNM DE Liza Gak joins Data Skeptic to discuss her research on harmful weight loss advertising. Read more

William Morgan, a Fall 2021 Conference Grant recipient, presented “Are You R(obotic)? Can Visiting an AI Mind Tell Us Anything About Our Own?” at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts annual meeting. Read more

Our faculty member Tom McEnaney published this article with Kaitlyn Todd in Public Books, a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship . Read more

Shout out to Xiaowei Wang for being a fellow at the National Center on Race & Digital Justice! Read more

Jesse worked on Tory Jeffay's dissertation "The Forensic Imaginary." Read more

Musician Kevin CK Lo worked towards building a modular geo-spatial web template. Read more

Rebecca works on the digital documentation of ancient art! Read more

Elon University published a report on "The Future of the Metaverse," featuring BCNM experts. Read more

Digital preservation and database building formed the basis of Lani's work on kabuki performances in the early twentieth century. Read more

danah boyd discusses "Differential Privacy for the 2020 U.S. Census: Can We Make Data Both Private and Useful?" Read more

"I approach technology as a tool and an intervention. Certain futures are made easier because of technology, and certain futures get more complicated. We can make bets about the probabilities of certain futures, but we cannot see the future. We can only introduce other interventions." Read more

Read more about Haripriya's work on Spatial Perception of the Pediatric Built Environment and Patient-Centric Design Read more

Xiaowei Wang has a new article in Just Tech. Read more

Hear alum danah boyd speak about data and truth on Gnovis with Huseyn Panahov. Read more

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

Congratulations and best wishes to Xiaowei Wang who will co-lead Logic Magazine's pivot to becoming the first queer Black and Asian tech magazine. Read more

Alum Tiffany Ng leads the Organ Department at the University of Michigan. Read more

The 15th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics was held on June 22-24, 2022.  Read more

Dr. Grace Gipson speaks on Black gamers as part of Temple University's series on Digital Humanities and Afrofuturism. Read more

Abigail was mentored by Haripriya Sathyanarayanan on of immersive virtual environments. Read more

Alumni Christo Sims and Jen Schradie presented at the International Communication Association's 2022 conference. Read more

Alum Michelle Carney speaks to the Experiencing Data podcast about her mission to bring machine learning and user interface design together. Read more

We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022!  Read more

Congratulations to Clancy Wilmott on being a warded a Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Excellence Award for the branch of Northern California! Read more

Our alum danah boyd published an article in the Harvard Data Science Review with Jayshree Sarathy.

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Akemi was mentored by Haripriya Sathyanaryanan on graduate level research, supporting Haripriya's project on spatial design in pediatric healthcare spaces. Read more

Abigail De Kosnik and Jaclyn Zhou present diversity Scores for films and television series on major streaming platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic period. Read more

BCNM shares their expertise at "Critical Data Futures: Art, Life, and Data in the Metaverse."  Read more

Congratulations to Greg Niemeyer for receiving a $25,000 grant for network visualizations! Read more

Greg received a Pro Helvetia Grant for Data Art about Water in Africa! Read more

Jenna Burrell shares a new Data & Society research agenda in the earliest stages of discussion and planning.  Read more

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

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Congratulations to the incredible students, faculty, and alumni who represented BCNM at CHI 2022! Read more

Andrea Gagliano is featured in the first MLUX Seattle meetup. Read more

Michelle Carney talks us through tactics for building more human, more helpful, and more ethical AI + ML systems.  Read more

Amazing BCNM representation from students, faculty, and alumni at SCMS 2022! Read more

Congratulations to these amazing students working in the fields of architecture, technology, cognitive science, and more! Read more

Sonya Katyal, Trevor Paglen, and Ken Goldberg discuss epistemology and politics in artificial intelligence with Tanner lecture recipient Kate Crawford. Read more

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

Congratulations to Abigail Lomibao and Jesse Clements! Read more about their projects here! Read more

Check out Ken Goldberg's latest publication in IEEE Africon! Read more

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

Ken Goldberg and team present "Dex-NeRF: Using a Neural Radiance Field to Grasp Transparent Objects" at the Conference on Robotic Learning. Read more

A new paper from Ken Goldberg and team. Read more

Ruoxin Liu is an associate professor at the New Media Research Institute of Communication University of China. Read more

Women in AI Ethics recognizes BCNM faculty and alumni in their list of honors, including Jenna Burrell, Morgan Ames, danah boyd, and Michelle Carney! Read more

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

Congratulations to Lina Matine, Akemi Nagashiki, and Abigail Lomibao! Read more

We're pleased to share the transcript of our Common Conversations event with founder of Stamen Design Eric Rodenbeck. Read more

Ken Goldberg and team publish a new paper on Offline Meta-RL for Safe Adaptation and Fault Tolerance. Read more

Hannah Zeavin's new book The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy is reviewed in Book Forum. Read more

Congratulations to our Fall 2021 graduates! They have extended their studies with a suite of new media projects. We are so excited to see their future successes Read more

Please join us in welcoming our 2021 Undergraduate Certificate cohort! Read more

Alum danah boyd gives the plenary at the Microsoft Research Summit on Statistical Imaginaries. Read more

Amazing representation of BCNM presenting at 4S, the Society for Social Studies of Science!  Read more

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

BCNM alum Noura Howell has joined Georgia Tech as an assistant professor in Digital Media. Read more

BCNM alum danah boyd was the keynote speaker at IEEE VIS 2021. Read more

Eric Paulos, Björn Hartmann, Jingyi Li and Molly Nicholas at the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Read more

BCNM alum Pablo Paredes co-authored a research study on detecting stress levels through steering wheel angle data. Read more

BCNM is pleased to announce the recipients of the Fall 2022 Faculty Seed Grants! Read more

BCNM alum danah boyd has joined Georgetown University for the year as a distinguished visiting professor. Read more

BCNM's Kris Paulen, Jacob Gaboury, and Hannah Zeavin presented at SLSA2021 "ENERGY": 34TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND THE ARTS. Read more

Jahara Cayabyab was an Undergraduate Research Fellow under Haripriya Sathyanarayanan last year, assisting in research about hospital design in pediatric spaces.  Read more

BCNM executive commitee member Jenna Burrell has been promoted to full professor at UC Berkeley's School of Information.  Read more

Congratulations to these amazing students working on media literacy, ethnographic research, philosophical arguments, and more! Read more

We extend a warm welcome to Professor Jenna Burrell, who has joined BCNM's executive committee. Read more

Professor Ken Goldberg's robotics startup, Ambi Robotics, has secured $26 million in funding. Read more

Julia Irwin received a BCNM 2021 Summer Research Award. Read about her great work researching and writing about the archives of industrial psychologist Lillian Moller Gilbreth and her husband Frank B. Gilbreth. Read more

Several papers co-written by Ken Goldberg were presented at IROS 2021. Read more

Rachel Chen received a BCNM 2021 Summer Research Award. Hear about her great work developing a platform for non-speaking children on the Autism spectrum. Read more

Tonya Nguyen shares her findings on how mutual aid organizations can scale effectively, especially when making decisions about the technology they should use and its impact on their communities. Read more

Jessie Mindel was a recipient of this year's BCNM research fellowship, assisting Molly Nicholas and team on building a new web-based, collaborative design classroom tool. Read more

Pablo Paredes features on Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health's The Invisible Future of Health Monitoring. Read more

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

Juliana Friend receieved a BCNM Conference Grant to help her attend the 27th Annual Lavendar Languages and Linguistics Conference. Read more

Alum Tiffany Ng speaks on her musical influences in I Care If You Listen's "ListN Up." Read more

Celeste Kidd talked on a Rethinking Economics panel about the governance, ethics, and bias of AI and other similar technologies.  Read more

Congratulations to the incredible students, faculty, and alumni who represented BCNM at CHI 2021! Read more

Yaara Bou Melham documentary Unseen Skies spotlights the work of alum Trevor Paglen. Read more

BCNM member and School of Information professor David Bamman co-published a paper titled, "Characterizing English Variation across Social Media Communities with BERT." Read more

Björn Hartmann published a paper on "Model-based Formalization of the Autonomy-to-Human Perception Hand-off." Read more

BCNM alum and media academic danah boyd co-authored an essay with Dan Bouk for the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University titled, "Democracy's Data Infrastructure."  Read more

UC Berkeley Professor and Egypgytologist Rita Lucarelli's BCNM funded 3D coffin modeling project is set to debut at the Phoebe Hearst Museum later this year. Read more

Ken Goldberg recently spoke with Medical Design and Outsourcing on artifical intelligence and surgical robots. 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

Each year, the Berkeley Center for New Media pairs undergraduates with a graduate student mentor, offering them the chance to complete real, graduate level research while at Cal. We are thrilled to announce this year's Fellows. Read more

Congratulations to our Fall 2020 BCNM graduates, jazmin calderón torres and Yairamen Roman Maldonado! Read more

Xiaowei Wang was recently interviewed by Rest of World on their book Blockchain Chicken Farm. Read more

Ken Goldberg's work was recently presented at the 2020 Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL). Read more

Xiaowei Wang's The Future of Memory project is now online! Read more

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

Applications are now open and are due December 1, 2020.  Read more

BCNM alum Pablo Paredes explores the use of a computer trackpad in monitoring stress. Read more

Several papers co-written by Ken Goldberg were presented at IROS 2020. Read more

Claudia von Vacano publishes an article on Electronic Book Review! Read more

Jenni Higgs recently published an academic article titled "Digital Discourse in Classrooms: Language Arts Teachers’ Reported Perceptions and Implementation." Read more

John Scott's co-authored paper earned an honorable mention for best paper submission at the Conference on Educational Data Science 2020. Read more

Xiaowei Wang and An Xiao Mina publish "WeChat Has Both Connected Families and Torn Them Apart" in Slate. Read more

Celeste Kidd received a Seed Grant to examine "The role of reasoning and metacognition during belief formation in the internet era". Read more

Anushah Hossain shares how the support of the Peter Lyman Graduate Fellowship has opened up more resources for her to focus on her research. Read more

Alex Saum-Pascual published a poem and project titled "made to disappear" in Perspektive. Read more

Kevin Lo and his longtime collaborator were excited to present their art in physical space, but have no returned to the digital realm in light of COVID-19. Read more

Alum Jen Schradie's article “The Digital Activism Gap: How Class and Costs Shape Online Collective Action” was recognized in the CITAMS 2020 awards. Read more

Haripriya is working on a mixed-methods study on enhancing patient experience through collaborative design of patient spaces in pediatric hospital environments using immersive technology. Read more

Jen Schradie's book receives a fantastic review from Briana Trifiro. Read more

AI4Afrika's goal is to make AI more inclusive and aware of Afrikan perspectives. Read more

"The “Eye of the Hurricane” Paradox: An Unexpected and Unequal Rise of Well-Being During the Covid-19 Lockdown in France" was published by a team of authors in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. Read more

The issue on "Transnational Fandom" is available via the University of Minnesota Press. 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

"I am now more familiar with and understand the courtroom's significance as a space for innovative technology." Read more

Collective Obscura, a project created by BCNM students, was one of the finalists for Fast Company's World Changing Ideas Awards 2020.  Read more

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

BCNM faculty Alex Saum-Pascual published "Is Third Generation Literature Postweb Literature? And Why Should We Care?" in the 2019 Electronic Literature Organization essay collection.  Read more

Congratulations to our 2020 cohort, who are graduating with the New Media Undergraduate Certificate!

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The Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) is thrilled to share that the College of Engineering (COE) will become our new administrative home on July 1, 2020.  Read more

Revisit curator Horace Ballad's talk about his exhibit “possible selves: queer foto vernaculars" in an article reposted from the Arts Research Center. Read more

We are thrilled to share our 2020 Summer Research Fellows from Anthropology, Architecture, Art Practice, Music, and Rhetoric! Read more

Aditya Ganapathi et al., including our own Ken Golberg, on robotic fabric manipulation.   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

Camille Crittenden was featured on the UC IT Blog, participating in a Q&A interview about her work at CITRIS and her experience as a woman in tech. Read more

Ken Goldberg was part of the team to publish a new paper "VisuoSpatial Foresight for Multi-Step, Multi-Task Fabric Manipulation". Read more

Check out BCNM alum John Scott's work and research on accessibility and inclusion in digital learning. Read more

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

Jen Schradie was recently interviewed in "The Data Driving Democracy," a research paper by Christina Couch. Read more

Congratulations to these amazing students working on digital tools, ethnographic research, philosophical arguments, and more! Read more

Trevor Paglen contributed to the February 2019 issue of Machine Landscapes: Architectures of the Post Anthropocene. Read more

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

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting features presentations by four BCNM students and alumni! Read more

Eleni Oikonomaki, Lian Song, Rashad Timmons, and Bryan Truitt were Fall 2019 Conference Grant recipients and attended the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB).  Read more

Check out the stellar BCNM students who were featured on Berkeley's Art + Design book, "Made at Berkeley."  Read more

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

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

Don't miss this exciting BCNM Study Abroad opportunity this summer in French Polynesia! Read more

DE Juliana Friend and alum Reginold Royston presented their riveting research at the American Anthropological Association's annual meeting last year.  Read more

Xiaowei Wang, a Fall 2019 Conference Grant recipient, presented "Let's Have a Pearl Party: Style and Livestream in the Making of Subculture” at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts annual meeting. Read more

danah boyd investigates the US Census Bureau's approach to "differential privacy" and its implications for data products. Read more

Alum danah boyd recently released a Data & Society report titled "Data Voids: Where Missing Data Can Easily Be Exploited" in collaboration with Michael Golebiewski of Microsoft. Read more

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco presents Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI. Read more

CNET's list of the larger-than-life innovators and important influencers of the last 10 years includes alum, Data & Society founder, danah boyd. Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen's work is featured in the exhibition Age of You.

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Alum danah boyd with Emmanuel Moss and Jacob Metcalf published on corporate logics, Silicon Valley, and the Institutionalization of ethics. Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen along with Kate Crawford penned an important essay on the politics of images in machine learning training sets Read more

Ken co-published on "Deep Imitation Learning of Sequential Fabric Smoothing Policies" Read more

Claudia presented her co-authored work on measuring hate speech in big data by unifying deep learning with item response theory. Read more

A new living document by danah boyd explains how differential privacy works in the context of the US Census and illuminates key conversations, misunderstandings, and anxieties surrounding this disclosure avoidance system. Read more

ALum Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford created ImageNet Roulette, a new art piece that has stirred controversy and accolades across the globe. Read more

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

Is media silence as powerful in shaping public discussion as deliberate rhetoric? If so, do editorial boards need to strategically amplify certain speech? Read more

Hate making your bed? This new bed finds a fun new robotic solution! Read more

Schradie recently went on the WashingTech Policy Podcast with Joe Miller to talk about her experience with "social media bias". Read more

We are thrilled to welcome to BCNM these talented students from across campus! Read more

Alum danah boyd and Dan Bouk are running an incredible workshop at Data & Society. Application deadline: November 25, 2019. 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

BCNM is hosting three scholars from the Berggruen Institute this year. Learn more about who they are and what they're researching! Read more

The Berkeley Center for New Media is thrilled to provide small grants to our graduate students to help them share their innovative research at the premier conferences in their field. Read more

BCNM alum danah boyd was recognized as a 2019 EFF Barlow 'Trailblazing Technology Scholar'  Read more

This year's Open House was lead by new BCNM Director Abigail De Kosnik! Read more

Chelsea McBride shares how the support of the Peter Lyman fellowship has opened up more resources for her to focus on her research. Read more

Artist Brian Bartz worked on custom computer-vision algorithms in alum Trevor Paglen's art studio in Berlin. Read more

More in the media from faculty Abigail De Kosnik, Nicholas de Monchaux, Ken Goldberg, and Tom McEnaney; and alumni Jenni Higgs, Andrea Horbinski, Jane McGonigal, Trevor Paglen, Ritwik Banerji and Jen Schradie.  Read more

Alex Saum Pascual and Kyle Booten discussed wideranging topics including e-lit's social function and art in the age of mechanical reproduction! Read more

Richard John's article "Why the Left Is Losing the Information Age" showcases Schradie's research on digital activism and inequality. Read more

The American Sociological Association's 2019 theme is "Engaging Social Justice for a Better World" Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen joins Kate Crawford for the Fondazione Prada exhibition, running from 12 Sep 2019 – 24 Feb 2020. Read more

Jacob writes for the blog Still Searching on a history and theory of the computer screenshot. Read more

Alum Jen Schradie spoke on France 24 on whether Democrats can mobilize their base for 2020. Read more

Camille spoke on the Pacific Research Platform. Read more

The Noisy Renaissance: Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life by Niall Atkinson discusses the history of tower bells. Read more

BCNM presented their latest research at the CM Designing Interactive Systems 2019 conference on Contesting Borders and Intersections. Read more

Check out the highlights and videos from this incredible program, featuring Molly Steenson and Safiya Noble! Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen collaborated with the Kronos Quartet to present Sight Machine on July 11th, 2019 at the Barbican. 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

Stephanie Tang received a BCNM Undergraduate Research Fellowship to work on Speculating the Smart City under the mentorship of Noura Howell. Read more

BCNM students faculty and alumni put up a strong showing at ACM's Creativity and Cognition 2019 conference!  Read more

Listen to this podcast on how Tiffany uses her career to lift up diverse composers. Read more

The students' commentary on our culture's enthusiasm for supplements is now showing in the CITRIS Tech Museum. Read more

BCNM was thrilled to co-sponsor this School of Information conversation about the challenges and opportunities created by the rise of big data. Read more

Jacob Gaboury recaps an incredible year as a 2018 BCNM Faculty Seed Grant recipient. Read more

Camryn received an BCNM undergraduate research fellowship to work on Algorithmic Gentrification under the mentorship of Will Payne. Read more

William White received a 2019 Faculty Seed Grant for "The People's Park Digital Heritage Project." Read more

Will Payne presented "Crawling the City: Mobilizing Free Labor in the Spatial Data Economy" at the American Association of Geographer's 2019 Conference. Read more

The Initiative seeks to work on systems for AI that integrate data, algorithms, context, and human values. Read more

Noura presented "The Heart Sounds Bench" at the Human Factors in Computing Systems conference of 2019 in Glasgow, Scotland. Read more

Check out the great panels our alumni are part of at the International Communications Association 2019 Conference! Read more

These students invested in the new media landscape at Cal, and we're excited to see what new endeavours they undertake in their respective fields Read more

We are thrilled by the ambitious and innovative work these students are completing, and are pleased to be able to provide summer funding to support their research initiatives. Read more

The Society Pages features allum Jen Schradie's research on the digital activism gap. Read more

The New York Times hosted the New Work Summit. Read more about the recommendations Ken Goldberg and other experts made regarding the ethics of artificial intelligence.

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Claudia von Vacano moderated a panel around issues of diversity on campus. Read more

We're  to our extraordinary The Berkeley Center for New Media is thrilled to provide small grants to our graduate students to help them share their innovative research at the premier conferences in their field. Read more

The DailyCal features Ken Goldberg and team's DexNet 4.0 Read more

Greg Niemeyer and Roger Antonsen discuss Network Simulation, first presented in San Francisco, with DJ Spooky at Norway's Kunstnernes Hus. Read more

Schradie's studies of digital democracy indicate a large class and race based gap in digital activism in the US. Read more

Trevor Paglen will co-host a featured speaker session at SXSW on March 9. Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen joins Kate Crawford to discuss the biases and skews of artificial intelligence. Read more

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

Alum Stuart Geiger, ethnographer of computation and computational ethnographer; research staff at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, gave a talk on the human aspects of data science research. Read more

The team will study the invisible work of maintaining open-source software Read more

This February 15th and 16th, this workship will by held in the University of California, San Diego.  Read more

BCNM DE student Molly Nicholas recieved the 2019 Snap Fellowship! Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen discusses his art's focus on hidden structures of data collection and mass surveillance. Read more

Ken Goldberg and other IEEE luminaries call for greater openness around reproducible benchmarks. Read more

The 21st ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing featured presentations by BCNM faculty, students, and alumni! Read more

Each year, undergraduates work closely with our graduate mentors on academic research. Read more

John Scott contributed to two discussions at the 68th Annual LRA Conference. Read more

WIlliam Morgan's article "Big Data’s Accursed Share: Locating
Waste in the Infosphere"and art installation brought together new media and environment. Read more

Ken Goldberg was one of the guest speakers at a weekly robotics seminar held at Stanford. Read more

Rebecca Levitan presented "Out of Etruria: Collecting and Context in California" at a conference at Marco Besso Foundation with help from a BCNM Conference Grant. Read more

Stuart Geiger and Don Sholler are doing extensive research on the challenges of conducting data research in teams and groups. Read more

The Data & Democracy conference in Paris invited Jen Schradie as one of their panelists. Read more

We are thrilled to welcome to the BCNM these talented students from across campus. Read more

Jane McGonigal developed a toolkit to help keep many large Silicon Valley tech companies, as well as start-ups, keep their priorities and ethics in check. Read more

Ken Goldberg's conversation around bias in AI was one of the key takeaways from TechCrunch's Disrupt SF conference.

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Recruitment opens September 24th, 2018 and runs through November 5th, 2018. Read more

BCNM faculty Ken Goldberg is the keynote speaker Day 2 of RoboBusiness 2018.  Read more

This summer, Yairamaren Roman Maldonado explored how Cuban and Dominican Republican literary content use new media to reconfigure power relations. Read more

Study from consulting firm Tata Communications on AI, co-authored by Ken Goldberg, covered in the press. Read more

Great to see BCNM faculty and graduate students part of the Spring 2019 Global Urban Humanities-Townsend Fellows. Read more

Ken Goldberg talks about mutually beneficial partnerships between AI and humans in an interview for MIT Sloan Management Review's Fall 2018 issue.  Read more

BCNM alum Chris Gates's paper "Trellis and Vine: Weaving Function and Fiction in Videogame Play" published in Arts. Read more

This summer, Noura Howell developed a prototype for a biosensing bench for connecting community members. Read more

A great paper featured on Assert on Arxiv! Read more

The Electronic Literature Organization's 2018 Conference, Mind The Gap, took place in Montréal August 13th to 17th! Read more

The IDEO MLUX Industry Panel focused on Designing and using Data Science Ethically. Read more

The Dexterity-Network from AutoLab gets a well-deserved feature in the Daily Cal. Read more

The New York Times features robotic videos in "How Robot Hands Are Evolving to Do What Ours Can." Read more

Read "Becoming NULL: Queer relations in the excluded middle." Read more

The Digital Games Research Association held their 2018 conference with the theme "The Game is the Message." Read more

The theme was "New Benchmarks, Metrics, and Competitions for Robotic Learning." Read more

Yaira presented "Portable memory, on/offline cultures and transgressions to the nation in Jorge E. Lage’s Archivo." Read more

A new report in SocArXiv investigates career prospects in academic Data Science.  Read more

"The Types, Roles, and Practices of Documentation in Data Analytics Open Source Software Libraries" was published on May 29th, 2018. Read more

Head to Spain this September to learn about Data & the Arts from Greg Niemeyer! Read more

Alex Saum-Pascual summarizes the amazing work that developed out of the Peder Sather grant funded collaboration between UCB and Bergen University on electronic literature. Read more

Ken Goldberg's latest research on the evaluation systems used in online shopping is featured in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Read more

Alum Jen Schradie and an international team of collaborators won a European Commission Grant to study online hate speech against Muslims Read more

Our alumni present their exceptional scholarship at the International Communication Association 2018 Conference. Read more

The Lismore Castle opened When Facts Don't Matter on May 27th, 2018, an exhibition featuring alum Trevor Paglen.  Read more

Soravis Prakkamakul received a Spring 2018 BCNM Conference Grant to present his paper "Reflexive Visual Inspection of Cleft Lip Faces — Analysis of Lookzone Focus Over Time" at the 63rd Plastic Surgery Research Council Annual Meeting in Birmingham, Alabama. Read more

Marissa Ahmed was a recipient of this year's BCNM research fellowship, assisting Ritwik Banerji on his research about human sociality and algorithmic ethnography. Read more

Joyce Lee assisted Michelle Carney with her research on auditory data representation, as part of Lee's BCNM research fellowship.  Read more

We are thrilled to welcome to our Executive Committee, Executive Director of Digital Humanities at Berkeley and the D-Lab, Claudia Von Vacano. Read more

Robots are slowing becoming master of dexterity, and Ken Goldberg is a leading engineer in the field. Read more

The University of California, San Diego invited alum Stuart Geiger to present a talk on his research. Read more

Jenni Higgs was a presenter at the "Digital Learning in the Humanities and Beyond" sympopsium that took place at the University of California, Irvine. Read more

Congratulations to these four stellar women, who have made a big impact at Cal in the New Media space. Read more

Rita Lucarelli's project on Egyptian landscapes will be funded by the CITRIS seed grant program. Read more

Ilmar Hurkxkens and Mohammad Keshavarzi taught participants how to build a Virtual Reality environment from 3D point scan data of the historic Woo Hon Fai Hall. Read more

Asma Kazmi curated a fantastic virtual reality exhibition we were thrilled to preview as part of the Past is Present.  Read more

Overwhelmed by the amazing panels at CHI 2018? Make your CHI experience a BCNM one with our guide to where our students, faculty, and alumni will be presenting! Read more

Stuart Geiger spoke at the University of Manchester's Data Science Institute on The Human Contexts of Data: Infrastructures, Institutions, and Interpretations. Read more

Trevor Paglen's solo show for Altman Siegel was featured in San Francisco Art Quarterly.  Read more

Recap of the Software Arts, the last HTNM lecture of the year!  Read more

Ken Goldberg gave the opening keynote at IoT World USA Conference! Read more

Alum Stuart Geiger delivered the keynote lecture at the UH Open Sciences Symposium. Read more

If you were unable to attend Professor Scott Rettberg's discussion about electronic literature last November, a video of his talk is now available for public viewing. Read more

Alum Jen Schradie published an article on the North Carolina Moral Monday protests in Social Media & Society Read more

Geiger spoke on Computational Ethnography as part of U of M iSchool's speaker series.  Read more

Architecture professor Ines Weizman spoke at length about the life and legacy of Adolf Loos, delving into the work he left behind and how debates over ownership persist to this day. Read more

Ken Goldberg and Dex-Net 2.0 was featured in Technology Review's round up of 2017 robots. Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen and Wendy Hui Kyong Chun were Keynote Speakers at Ways of Knowing Cities Conference by the Center for Spatial Research at Columbia.

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If you couldn't make it out to the Humanizing Deportation conference back in December, there is now a video of the talk available on Youtube for public consumption. Read more

BCNM Alum Jen Schradie gave a talk, "The Digital Activism Gap: Social Media, Social Movements and Social Class," at Cal! Read more

Laurent El-Ghaoui's lecture 'Lifted neural nets' was the first seminar event of the Spring 2018 IEOR series. Read more

Schradie published "The Digital Activism Gap" in Social Problems Read more

Paglen's work was featured in "The Future of Art," a short film series on Artsy.  Read more

The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to two of New Media's most outstanding students. Read more

Each year, the BCNM selects four graduate student projects that we believe will both interest and prove engaging to undergraduates. Undergraduates apply to be a research fellow and once selected, they have the opportunity to work on high-level research in concert with our graduates, who mentor them on research methods. Read more

Abigail De Kosnik discusses Game of Thrones and shares her pro-piracy argument with the data she has collected through her project titled "alpha60". Read more

Congratulations to Shangjun (Jenny) Jiang and Allison Nguyen our Spring 2018 Graduating Undergraduates! Read more

BCNM alum and artist Trevor Paglen and his art were featured on an article on art in the age of mass surveillance in The Guardian.  Read more

Ken Goldberg collaborated with 16 other Berkeley researchers in composing a paper on their perspectives of systems challenges for AI. Read more

From sports and cultural data analytics to art and technology performances, from design to the philosophies around technology, these students are excited to dive into New Media on campus.  Read more

Berkeley DeepDrive (BDD) and Nexar announce the release of videos and images for further research. Read more

Jen Schradie received her PhD from Berkeley and recently published Media and Class: TV, Film, and Digital Culture, which can be bought on Amazon. Read more

BCNM ExComm member Sonia Katyal discusses the dynamic between technology and culture in her article, "Technoheritage," which was published in the California Law Review.  Read more

Ken Goldberg, member of RISElab and Chair of IEOR, comments on possible methods to control the AI challenges that are appearing. Read more

Alex Saum-Pascual from UC Berkeley and Scott Rettberg from the University of Bergen received a Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study grant. Read more

Stuart Geiger on the role of algorithmic systems in Wikipedian organizational culture in ACM Proceedings. Read more

Stuart Geiger on the role of algorithmic systems in Wikipedian organizational culture in Big Data & Society. Read more

Stuart Geiger gave a presentation in regarding autoethnographic methods for studying data-driven knowledge production in Boston, Massachusetts. Read more

BCNM alum Stuart Geiger will be giving a talk about machine learning and artificial intelligence at the Bay Area Science Festival in early November.  Read more

BCNM alum Stuart Geiger presented at JupyterCon this past August, offering a deeper understanding on how to use Jupyter in diverse ways and insights on the changing rituals around computation.  Read more

Christo Sims, author of Disruptive Fixation and a Berkeley alum, presents on school reform and techno-fetishism. Read more

Come check out the round-up of all the amazing work of the BCNM students, alumni and faculty! Read more

BCNM alum Stuart Geiger will be attending the annual meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers later this October in Tartu, Estonia.  Read more

A Quartz article quoted De Monchaux about Elon Musk's Instagram post of SpaceX spacesuit prototype.  Read more

Join cross-disciplinary experts from UC Berkeley and beyond as they share perspectives on data's influence on learning environments (think: how bCourses became bCourses) Read more

Miyoko Conley (TDPS) documents her BCNM-funded research on digital fandom in Seoul, South Korea Read more

The professor of Robotics, Automation, and New Media spent time at MIT last week for a conference on robots. Read more

This year, BCNM initiated its undergraduate research fellowships, which offer undergraduates the chance to engage in direct research experience with BCNM graduates. Read more

David Bates headed to Paris to participate in a two-day seminar project on AI and "black boxes". Read more

Greg Niemeyer presents on data art for Moving Ideas! Read more

BCNM Executive Committee member, Camille Crittenden, published a post on Medium about the impertinence of LGBT inclusion in tech industries. Read more

How are Bay Area visual artists really getting paid? Read more

Justin Berner presented paper "Waking up to a World in Color" for Happiness Conference at NYU. Read more

Goldberg and Crittenden were at the "Inclusive AI: Technology and Policy for a Diverse Urban Future" symposium. Read more

Canyon Perry was selected to work with Yaira Roman Madonado on her project Literary and Digital Avant-Gardes in Post-National Puerto Rico. Read more

Ken Goldberg featured in "Cloud Robotics Promises to Simplify Machine Tending" in Robotics Business Review Read more

These students have made extensive contributions to New Media at Cal Read more

Andrew Atwood received a $5000 junior faculty seed grant to create interactive app designs as a way to engage and attract new audiences to architecture Read more

Jenni Higgs reflects on her experience at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) this May in San Antonio, Texas Read more

Damon Young received a $5000 junior faculty seed grant to produce a book commissioned by MIT Press on identity in the age of #selfies Read more

Juliana Friend & Seth Lu launched the interactive ethnographic archive, Many to Many Read more

Ashley Hunt discussed the visibility of prisons as part of our Commons Conversations series Read more

with Jan De Vos Read more

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Andy and Deborah Rappaport, founders of the Minnesota Street Project, which houses affordable spaces for artists and non-profits, shared the pleasures and challenges of collecting art objects in this digital age. Read more

Berkeley Center for Law and Technology's (BCLT) 6th annual Privacy Law Forum featured BCNM's Ken Goldberg as a Keynote speaker. Read more

Juliana Friend and Laura K Nelson will lead the talk Digital Technologies and the Future of Qualitative and Interpretive Analysis. Read more

Don't miss out on this great discussion between Geoff Manaugh and Nicholas de Monchaux on Urban Data Operations at the Storefront for Art & Architecture this January 18 from 7-9pm! Read more

These students highlight the interdisciplinary nature of new media through the range of disciplines they represent and the exciting collaborative projects in which they are engage Read more

Miyoko Conley recaps Bernard Stiegler's exciting Symposium held in October. Read more

We're excited to see AMPLab transform into RISELab, which focuses on real-time secure decision stacks! Read more

Drawing Futures 2016 is a conference on "Speculations on Contemporary Drawing for Art and Architecture" taking place at the Bartlett School of Architecture Read more

BCNM's de Monchaux will attend the 13th International Bauhaus Colloquium, which will be held at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in Germany Read more

Goldberg published an article, A Century of Art and Technology in the Bay Area, on Medium Read more

On Miriam Posner's workshop event, recapped by Miyoko Conley. Read more

BCNM undergrad Jingyi Li and a friend built a data scraper for the fan-content archive, Archive of Our Own Read more

The fellowship is supported by donations from Professor Barrie Thorne, Sage Publications and many individual friends and faculty Read more

Niemeyer taught at the Digital Art History Summer School in Malaga, Spain from September 4th to 9th Read more

Greg Niemeyer will create radial visualizations of the internet from the inside out Read more

Our alumni voted on the applications and awarded $10,000 to Eric Paulos to design The Making of Un-making Read more

The Berkeley Center for New Media was delighted to host the Cultural Committee from the Danish Parliament on June 28, 2016 Read more

Laura Devendorf is a PhD Candidate at the UC Berkeley School of Information Read more

Professor Ken Goldberg had multiple papers accepted the 12th Annual International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering Read more

The California Report Card was developed by BCNM Professor Ken Goldberg and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom Read more

BCNM Explores, a series of site tours to investigate collaborations across disciplines Read more

BCNM's De Kosnik has received a Berkeley Collegium grant for her joint graduate/undergraduate class, "Making Sense of Cultural Data" Read more

We recap this fascinating talk on this past showcase of sensor-technology art Read more

We recap Brewster Kahle's lecture on privacy and free speech in the world wide web Read more

Kate Mattingly recaps Ahmed Ghappour's talk. Read more

BCNM faculty were featured in a recent New York Times piece on monitoring and data security in the UC system Read more

We revisit Lark Buckingham's installation from this past week Read more

with Benjamin Bratton 

a Revisited post written by Kate Mattingly (TDPS) Read more

Olivia Ting recaps this performance by composer and musician Tarek Atoui Read more

with Claus Pias

Leuphana University of Lüneberg Read more

Aclima designs and deploys environmental sensor networks.  Read more

Mark your calendars — BCNM is hard at work bringing together a brilliant Fall 2015 program! Check out some of these great events! Read more

Watch this amazing ATC lecture on activism and technology, right here! Read more

We'll miss their energy and their intellectual curiosity around BCNM, but wish them all the best in their new endeavors and look forward to the amazing intellectual, artistic, and technological contributions we know they will produce Read more

México Participa is an innovative civic engagement platform based on the model of the California Report Card Read more

BIB VI will explore new forms of stories that embrace hybrid digital forms, or play with the tension between digital and physical interfaces Read more

From their probing talk, "A Hack in the Odious Machine: Digital Organizing Tools for the Precariat," a part of the ATC series here at BCNM Read more

BCNM turned ten! Read more

We recap this wonderful discussion, "Reality Environments," hosted at the David Brower Center Read more

The masterclass workshop led by Peruvian artist Jose Carlos Martinat and Enrique Mayorga, revisited Read more

Applications this semester were phenomenal and we’re thrilled by the unique perspectives each of our new students will bring to the Center Read more

The 2015 Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium hosted a BCNM open house last Thursday on February 12. Read more

On the quantity and temporality of fannish productivity in online fan fiction archives"  Read more

Author Laura Sydell discusses Bay Area fault lines, data visualization, the process of generating the score for the carillons Read more

A new media Carillon installation and performance in honor of the 100th Anniversar of UC Berkeley's Sather Tower (the Campanile) Read more

Sponsored by the game designer, Eugene Jarvis Read more

The recording of this highly anticipated lecture by the great architect Maya Lin Read more

NWMEDIA 202: Sensing Cityscapes Read more

On Thursday, December 11th, the Berkeley Center for New Media, in partnership with.. Read more

Winners of Hack the Bells, the first international carillon remix competition, have been selected Read more

UCSB's Film and Media Studies Associate Professor sat down with us earlier this month. Read highlights here. Read more

We highlight this fascinating lecture by the esteemed Maya Lin on her architecture and process Read more

Adam Hutz (Rhetoric) was one of five exceptional graduate students to be awarded a $1000 BCNM Summer Research Award. Check out what he's done so far! Read more

The world’s first interdisciplinary open license contest celebrating the carillon launched: Hack the Bells Read more

Follow Camille Crittenden on Twitter: www.twitter.com/data_democracy Read more

In April, the Berkeley Center for New Media hosted the university’s first Wikipedia edit-a-thon, facilitated by Susan B. Miller Fellow Sarah Stierch Read more

We now have video online from the Urban Data Canvas Hackathon that took place earlier this year, facilitated by Casey Reas! Read more

We are proud to announce our latest cohort of graduating BCNM Designated Emphasis and Masters Certificate students Read more

BCNM was excited to celebrate the research of its graduating Ph.D. candidates on Thursday, April 10th, at its Student Research Presentations Reception. Read more

A packed house greeted the first panelists for the Berkeley Center for New Media’s Robots and New Media Symposium on April 4, 2014 Read more

The semester's final ATC talk was a success as new Art Practice faculty member Stephanie Syjuco presented “Lossy: On the Politics of Networked Flows and Degraded Systems” Read more

This year, thanks to the craigslist Chair endowment, we were able to support five graduates with awards of $1,000 to help defray technology and training costs. Read more

Carla Diana, panelist in BCNM's upcoming Robots and New Media Symposium on April 4, published "The Dream of Intelligent Robot Friends" in the Atlantic Read more

The Kingdom of the Netherlands and UC BCNM highlight the next phase in the evolution of robotics with the “Robots and New Media Symposium” on April 4 Read more

The standing room only event was a huge success, and was followed by an energetic question and answer session Read more

BCNM was proud to introduce its latest Spring 2014 admits and celebrate the incredible research of its senior graduate students in January Read more

The Exploratorium has an exciting new position open for a new media exhibit developer focusing on interactive data visualizations. Details here! Read more

An eye-opening lecture last Thursday evening, November 7th, from Professor Lisa Parks marked the third installment of our 2013-2014 series Read more

Visit the ATC Colloquium’s home page at atc.berkeley.edu for directions, a list of speakers, and to join the mailing list Read more

Crittenden recently published a blog post entitled "Public Open Data: the Good, the Bad, the Future" Read more

For his project "Agency, Structure, and Organization: Paths to Participation in Large-Scale Socio-Technical Systems" Read more

Jen Schradie's (Sociology) article on the impact of income inequality on Big Data appears on pbs.org Read more

Berkeley Center for New Media is pleased to award fellowships for research on new media scholarship in Summer 2013 to five Designated Emphasis students Read more

Congratulations to all! Read more

UC Berkeley graduate students with a Designated Emphasis in New Media presented their research on April 17, 2013 in the BCNM Commons to an audience of students, faculty, and members of the public Read more

The position is open to all current UC Berkeley students. Read more

Symposium speakers shared their diverse experiences with online education and examined the conditions, opportunities, and tensions pertaining to learning online Read more

Wi-Fi and cloud-storage will be provided. Hackers should bring their own computers. Open to all! Read more

*Update: online registration is now full, however please feel free to register for the wait list Read more

Focusing on research justice and participatory methods, DataCenter partners with marginalized communities providing training and resources in research Read more

To commemorate Human Rights Day on December 10, Camille Crittenden, the executive director of CITRIS's Data and Democracy Initiative, wrote an article in the Huffington Post  Read more

CITRIS Data and Democracy Initiative Director, Camille Crittenden wrote for the Huffington Post on Tuesday to advocate for continued efforts to bring girls into STEM fields Read more

The UC Berkeley CITRIS Data and Democracy Initiative has launched a social media experiment related to CA Proposition 30. It's open now and we welcome you to participate Read more

Mondays, 7:30-9:00 pm. ATC lectures are free and open to the public! Read more

Congratulations to the following students! Read more

The Sociology Program of the NSF awards grants that have "theoretically focused empirical investigation aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social processes" Read more

This year's theme is ""Big Data at Berkeley" Read more

The two day symposium brought together interdisciplinary scholars, artists, and media industry representatives to reflect on the nature of knowledge in the digital age Read more

AirQuest’s objective is to make scientific data playable and accessible to all. Read more

For their research, "Unmanned Aerial Systems: The United States’ Techno-Political Entanglements in the Post-Cold War" Read more

Join us for lunch and conversation with artist Walter Kim at the Berkeley Institute of Design Read more

We mourn the passing of the influential media theorist Friedrich Kittler, who was a member of BCNM's international advisory board Read more

The Tomato Quintet at Machine Project, Los Angeles, involved five pods filled with Tomatoes Read more

Dor Abrahamson, Assistant Professor Graduate School of Education Cognition and Development: Education in Mathematics, Science, & Technology, UC Berkeley Read more