Congratulations to our 2024 Summer Research recipients from Geography, Music, Education, Architecture, East Asian Studies, Public Health, Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, and Film & Media.  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 semester's Fellows. 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 premiere conferences in their field. Read more

Each month, Passerby asks a writer to speak about what’s on their mind and share their tabs in our monthly recommendations. This month’s guest curator is our own Hannah Zeavin. Read more

What is data science? How did we get to this point? And how will we use data science in the near and distant future? 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 semester's Fellows. Read more

Alex spoke about AI and Research Innovation Across Disciplines! Read more

A new article from Hannah Zeavin in The Chronicle of Higher Education Read more

Weiying Li received a BCNM 2023 summer research award. Read more

The generous Eugene Jarvis Scholarship was awarded to Kelsey Choe, Em Erce, and Anna Ma.  Read more

Read about Valencia James and Landship Valiant Star; a multimodal research project in which I am exploring the living history of the Barbados Landship. Read more

Read about Dongho Shin's project to develop digital systems capable of generating mnemonics—strategies that enhance memory retention, such as creating wordplay, narratives, and visuals. Read more

Ken Goldberg presented on Expanding Access to Robots for Education and Research in the workshop on lowering barriers for robotics research. Read more

We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022-2023!  Read more

We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field.  Read more

Check out the awesome work our undergraduate certificate students are doing around Cal! Read more

Riya Manimaran worked with Meg Everett on Hybrid Learning Environments. Read more

Weiying Li shares her experience at the AERA 2023 Conference on “Interrogating Consequential Education Research in Pursuit of Truth.” Read more

Check out the amazing work from BCNM faculty, students, and alumni at the ACM Computer-Human Interaction Conference of 2023! Read more

We are thrilled to share our 2023 Summer Research Fellows from Architecture, Art Practice, Design, Education, Film & Media, Geography, and Theater, Dance and Performance Studies!  Read more

The Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching has awarded Director Gail De Kosnik a Distinguished Teaching Award, the campus' most prestigious award for teaching. Read more

The Parables Experience takes place at MozFest! Read more

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

Doctoral student in specical education and new media Rachel Chen to join Nanyang Technological University in Singapore 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

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

We were thrilled to co-sponsor "Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics," by Darieck Scott. Read more

Join us at BCNM curating and offering an exciting array of programs, including our popular Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium and Indigenous Technologies program! 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

The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to Victor Tze and Winnona Li! Read more

Eric Rawn, Morgan Ames, and Jacob Gaboury were featured in SIGCIS 2022:UNDER CONSTRUCTION. Read more

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

Congratulations to Sarah Sterman on being named a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Read more

Alum Grace Gipson is featured in "Teaching with Comics". Read more

Molly Nicholas and team received a Best Paper Award for "Creative and Motivational Strategies Used by Expert Creative Practitioners." Read more

Lashon Daley published with Kenly Brown and Derrika Hunt in Meridians journal. Read more

Check out Ra's work July 9th – August 28th in New Orleans. Read more

Camille Crittenden asks how engineers, computer scientists and technologists might engage more actively in creating solutions. Read more

Haripriya shared her research at the Environmental Design Research Association Health in Design conference. Read more

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

Katherine presented "Towards Decomposable Interactive Systems: Design of a Backyard-Degradable Wireless Heating Interface." Read more

The NSF GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines. Read more

Google Developer Studio celebrated global women in tech and trailblazers in honor of women's history month, featuring our own alum Michelle Carney! Read more

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

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

The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to Ashley Mackenzie Reed and Choyang Dhontso Ponsar! Read more

Edgar Fabián Frías joined the exhibition In Collaboration with Earth at Gearbox Gallery which ran December 6–17, 2021 Read more

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

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

The failures of One Laptop per Child have much to teach us about fixing educational inequities, Morgan Ames writes for Technology Review. Read more

In honor of Ada Lovelace Day, Camille Crittenden wrote an important reflection on increasing equity in STEM for the Berkeley Blog. 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 September! 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

Camille Crittenden, Executive Director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, was recently featured in the All About Blockchain podcast, where she discussed the future social benefits of blockchain innovation.  Read more

The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to Emily Xia Que. Read more

Check out our new media finds from across campus! Read more

This year, arm the next generation of innovators with the tools to build just and equitable technological futures through the Berkeley Center for New Media. Read more

Xiaowei Wang published a beautiful essay on their mother for Tank Magazine titled "The other mother: workers, immigrants and the settler colonial state." Check it out! 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

BCNM alum Trevor Paglen has joined the Alternative Art School with Mel Chin, and Janine Antoni. Read more

Camille Crittenden and the CITRIS Policy Lab investigate what blockchain technology could mean for vulnerable populations in the United States. Read more

BCNM alumn Andrea Horbinski features in a round table discussion on the role of historians in the tech industry. Read more

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

John Scott wrote an article titled "Coming Together When Learning at a Distance" on the Blackboard Blog. Read more

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

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

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

Ken Goldberg was invited to a workshop to debate with other well-known researchers on the impact of Sim2Real on robotics Read more

BCNM Designated Emphasis (D.E) program, Leah Rosenbaum published "Shaping Perception: Designing for Participatory Facilitation of Collaborative Geometry” Read more

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

Creating sound based interactions raises questions: what makes a sound interesting? When is repetition boring, and when is it musical? Read more

Alum Bonnie Ruberg's latest book, The Queer Games Avant-Garde, was given a glowing review by Times Higher Education.  Read more

"How disruptive is Covid-19 to everyday life? How is the French population experiencing the lockdown?"  Read more

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

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

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

Greg Niemeyer, UC Berkeley associate Professor, on online education in the midst of COVID-19.
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BCNM Alum Bo Ruberg published an article in Communication, Culture and Critique. 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

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

Join the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), an interdisciplinary research center that studies and shapes media transition and emergence from diverse perspectives. Through critical thinking and making, we cultivate technological equity and fairness in our classrooms, in our communities, and on the internet.  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 article covers a critical issue facing those teaching videogames today. Read more

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

Senator Klobuchar has introduced Digital Media Literacy legislation at the 116th Congress, with support from several BCNM faculty, students, and staff.

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The article, co-authored with Richard Paquin Morel and Cynthia Coburn, was published in Educational Researcher. Read more

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

Camille Crittenden contributed the chapter on "Vienna" to the book Brahms in Context. Read more

Camille spoke on the Pacific Research Platform. Read more

Alum Christo Sims published his essay in Zócalo Public Square. Read more

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

Celeste Kidd received a 2019 BCNM Faculty Seed Grant for "The Role of Reasoning and Metacognition During Belief Formation in the Internet Era." Read more

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

Now avialable for free on soundcloud — a fantastic interview with Christo Sims on what ethnography can bring to the study of school reform. Read more

Jessica presented "Envisioning the Globe: Symbolic Competence in 360-Degree, Virtual Reality Narratives" at the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) conference. Read more

Naomi will work on "An Ethnographic Cultural History of Streetdance since 1970."  Read more

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

"It's About Power" by alum Jenni Higgs and Sepehr Vakil was published in the March 2019 volume of Communications of the ACM. Read more

Goldberg contributed an article to Back to the Sandbox: Art and Radical Pedagogy Read more

Earl Aguilera examines Christo Sims’ Disruptive Fixation and its contributions to the growing body of literature on technology in education. Read more

BCNM Alum Bonnie Ruberg will present at the 2019 Game Developers' Conference Read more

The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to Fionce Siow. Read more

This new institute explores the impact of technology on identity, inequality, and ethics.

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Applications are open to admitted graduated students at UC Berkeley and are due March 1, 2019. Read more

Jen Schradie published her findings on the class and race gap in the digital democracy for the LSE US Centre. Read more

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

Cal State Long Beach recently collaborated with Jane McGonigal on a project to gather feedback on how to develop the campus. Read more

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

BCNM alum Jen Schradie was interviewed by Digital Society (article in French) Read more

Bonnie Ruberg attended the 2018-19 digital humanities symposium, "My Mother Was a Computer: Legacies of Gender and Technology," as a panelist. Read more

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

Camille Critterden published an article on Women's Equality on the Berkeley Blog.

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

Laurie Macfee will serve as the Events Coordinator and Office Manager at the BCNM and ARC Read more

Christo talked about techno-idealism and the possibilities for failed disruption. Read more

Applications are open to admitted graduated students at UC Berkeley and are due November 1, 2018. Read more

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

The Berkeley Center for New Media and Arts Research Center are hiring an Office Manager and Events Coordinator to maintain and develop their programs. 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

Jennifer Higgs, Leah Rosenbaum, and Bjoern Hartmann presented their respective research at AERA 2018. Read more

Wenny Miao, recipient of a BCNM undergraduate research fellowship, was selected to work with Noura Howell on her project about urban sensing.  Read more

We are proud to welcome an amazing set of graduates from across campus to the Berkeley Center for New Media. Read more

As of very shortly after 10:00 AM this morning, this talk and the waitlist were sold out. Read more

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

On March 6, the UC Berkeley Library, in partnership with American Cultures, Art History/Classics Library, the Berkeley Center for New Media, DH at Berkeley, the D-Lab, and the Wiki Education Foundation hosted a Wikipedia edit-a-thon to improve the coverage of cis and transgender women, feminism, race, justice, and the arts. Read more

Horbinski spoke at the Beyond Academia Conference as part of the Media and Communication panel. Read more

Alum Andrea Horbinski presented at the American Historical Association's 132nd Annual Meeting. Read more

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

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

Shannon Jackson participated in the "Vocabularies of Exclusion" strand at the PARSE Conference 2017 this week. Read more

Ken Goldberg to present "Scalable Collaborative Human-Robot Learning" at the National Robotics Initiative PI meeting. 

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Yairamaren Roman Maldonado reflects on her experience at the Imagining America conference, which was funded by a BCNM Fall Student Grant. Read more

Andrea Horbinski will be participating in two program items for the Sirens 2017 Conference in Colorado. Read more

Alex Saum-Pascual writes about her Digital Humanities course on e-literature, which she developed as a DH Fellow. Read more

Eric Paulos (EECS, Jacobs Design Innovation) developed a design tool to allow artists and designers to plan for their creation's destruction and failure as part of our Faculty Seed Grant program. Read more

Greg Niemeyer's work is being exhibited at ZKM in their Open Codes exhibit from October 20th 2017 to August 8th 2018. Read more

Undergraduated are now invited to apply for Fall 2017 admission into the BCNM undergrad program.
Applications due November 1. Read more

BCNM Director Nicholas de Monchaux will be speaking at Ohio State University as part of its fall lecture series.  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

Read about Friend's ethnographic research for her Many-to-Many project, funded by BCNM Read more

Prof. Goldberg commented on the growing trend of emphasizing coding skills in young children's classrooms. 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

This BCNM grad contributed to a paper on the reconceptualization of educational inquiry in the March issue of Review of Research of Education. Read more

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

Arts + Design Associate Vice Chancellor Shannon Jackson discusses the program's track record this past academic year. Read more

Jackson was part of a moderated discussion on the future of artistic engagement in public life. Read more

We look forward to sharing their future endeavors!

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Alum Tiffany Ng is fundraising for minority students to have the opportunity to learn the carillon Read more

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

The “Color of New Media Working Group” met as a part of Commons Conversations to discuss the vertiginous political climate. Read more

The Center of New Music and Audio Technologies‘ new website went public earlier this semester in a “soft” release. Read more

Eric Paulos challenged his Critical Making class (NWMEDIA 203) to create and present a novel protest object.  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

Here's a report of her recent presentation for this year's DML conference! Read more

Lydia Tuan was selected to work with Amy Koehler-Catterson (Education) on digital technologies as pedagogical tools Read more

Each of the following students have received funding to help defray the costs of presenting their research at the premiere conferences in their fields! Read more

At the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association's Urban Center in San Francisco Read more

Goldberg gave an address at the plenary session on August 30, entitled "Multiplicity: What Robots and AI Can Teach Us about Being Human" Read more

These grad students have both received the National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowships for 2016-2017 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

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

Ashley has been extensively engaged in areas of research that touch upon 3D imaging, art history, art practice, and archaeology Read more

On Ken Goldberg's exhibition at the De Young Museum in San Francisco Read more

We know these students will contribute to the vibrant interdisciplinary life of the Center Read more

The CITRIS Invention Lab is practically the home of contemporary innovation at Berkeley Read more

ArtReach is a non-profit mobile arts organization that is reframing the artist residency Read more

What a semester-long competition for students to develop mobile apps that addresses civic needs entailed! Read more

The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) hosted a semester-long competition for students to develop mobile apps Read more

BCNM is proud to announce the recipients of its Summer 2015 Research Awards! Read more

She is Visiting Instructor of Music History at St. Olaf College and a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology with a Designated Emphasis in New Media at UC Berkeley Read more

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

Part of the ATC Lecture series Read more

Sponsored by the game designer, Eugene Jarvis Read more

A wonderful lecture on community and dialogue, available right here. Read more

BCNM was excited to offer NWMEDIA 198 this semester, a decal associated with the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society's (CITRIS) Mobile Apps Challenge 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 are proud to announce our latest cohort of graduating BCNM Designated Emphasis and Masters Certificate students Read more

The Dr. C.F. Koo and Cecilia Koo Chair endowment was established in 2008 at the University of California, Berkeley Read more

We are delighted to welcome 3 new graduate students to our Masters Certificate program Read more

Margaret traveled to Sacramento to speak to legislators on the digital education project she works on with incarcerated women in an SF jail Read more

We are delighted to welcome 9 new graduate students to our Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate programs Read more

This course is offered with the support of CITRIS and the Educational Partnerships Office at UCOP 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

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

Rhee is the recipient of an honorable mention for the 2013 Thomas I. Yamashita Prize which honors young social activists Read more

We are delighted to welcome eleven new graduate students to our Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate programs! Read more

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

For his abstract on “New Media Literacy, Aesthetic Education, and Ambiguity in the Age of Irony” 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

We are very pleased to welcome new graduate students to our Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate program! 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

Critical Making will operationalize and critique the practice of “making” through both foundational literature and hands on studio culture 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

Congratulations to the following students! Read more

We are delighted to announce the following newly students to the BCNM Designated Emphasis and Master's Certificate Program in New Media 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

Applications must be postmarked by Oct. 14, 2011. Read more

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