Noura Howell reflects on her failures in design research practice in "Cracks in the Success Narrative: Rethinking Failure in Design Research through a Retrospective Trioethnogrpahy". Read more

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

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

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

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

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

The American Musicological Society Society for Music Theory featured Ritwik Banerji and his piece The Opportunity Cost of Experimentalism: Cultural Economics, Popular Music, and the Avant-Garde in Salvador, Brazil. Read more

BCNM alum Christo Sims was published in a collection of short essays, Keywords for Ethnography and Design. Read more

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

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

BCNM alum Chris Goetz draws on his video game expertise to critique a recently published book, MetaGaming. Read more

Ritwik Banerji, Ph.D. candidate in Ethnomusicology, discusses new developments in his research about human sociality in relation to AI. Read more

Christo Sims' work titled "Idealism" discusses the intersection between design, ethnography, and anthropology. It was recently published in the Journal of Cultural Anthropology. Read more

Juliana Friend, BCNM graduate student, attended the 2018 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Cultural Anthropology. Read more

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

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 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

Seth Lu reflects on his work with Juliana Friend through BCNM's undergraduate fellowship program. Read more

Undergrad Carmen Zheng was selected to work with Ritwik Banerji on his project Music, Improvisation, and Ethnography. Read more

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

Asma Kazmi, Assistant Professor in Art Practice, joined the BCNM in Fall 2017. In this interview, she discusses her recent exhibition “Cranes and Cube” in Pakistan. Read more

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

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

Congratulations to this year's Summer Research Award recipients! Each student will receive $1,000 of summer assistance to support their research initiatives. Read more

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

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