Applications are due March 1, 2024. 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

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

Applications are due November 1, 2023. Read more

Givenchy Beauty collaborates with three digital artists to each create a digital art piece on the metaverse platform. Read more

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

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

Applications for Spring 2023 admittance are due March 1, 2023. Read more

We're pleased to offer awards of $1,000 and $500 to our graduate students this summer to help support their research projects. Read more

Applications are due February 1, 2023. Read more

A great new course being offered by Emma Fraser this Spring 2023! Read more

Join the Berkeley Center for New Media! Applications due November 1, 2022. Read more

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

As every day we hear new reports of laws limiting LGBTQ+ rights, UC Berkeley professors weigh in on the current experience of our LGBTQ+ community. Read more

Bonnie Ruberg's The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games is reviewed in Communication Booknotes Quarterly. Read more

Jen Schradie demonstrates that the Web benefits conservative messages. Read more

Bo Ruberg talks about how LGBTQI+ game makers are reimagining the medium of video games. Read more

The article appears in American Literature and argues that the AIDS crisis indicates the "present absence of queerness in video games." Read more

The Berkeley Center for New Media is now accepting applications for admission to the Designated Emphasis (DE) in New Media and the Graduate Certificate in New Media programs. All applications for Spring 2022 admittance are due March 1, 2022. Read more

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

We're pleased to offer awards of $1,000 and $500 to our graduate students this summer to help support their research projects. Read more

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

Applications are due February 1, 2022. Read more

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

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

Elizabeth Rebecca Bird was a PhD candidate in Film & Media, a DE in New Media, filmmaker, and activist. She will be missed. 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

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

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

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

We're pleased to offer awards of $1,000 and $500 to our graduate students this summer to help support their research projects. 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

Applications are due February 1, 2021. Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alum Bonnie Ruberg publishes new article in Games and Culture! Read more

BCNM alum Andrea Horbinski presented at the Manga Symposium #5 Untold History of Japanese Comics: Prewar & LGBTQ+ Manga. Read more

Bonnie Ruberg collaborates with Amanda Phillips on a special issue titled Not Gay as in Happy: Queer Resistance and Video Games.  Read more

The annual Queerness and Games Conference began in 2013 at the hands of BCNM Alumni Bonnie Ruberg and Chris Goetz. It continues to flourish and to create safe spaces, this year in Montréal. Read more

Alum Bonnie Ruberg published article on straight-washing in the Journal of Transformative Works and Cultures. Read more

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

Clement Hil Goldberg's Our Future Ends plays at Outfest Los Angeles this July 13, 2018! Read more

Queer Game Studies, edited by BCNM alum Bonnie Ruberg, was reviewed on Electronic Book Review. Read more

BCNM Alum Bonnie Ruberg received the Inclusive Excellence Spirit Award at UCI for work diversifying esports. Read more

Queer Game Studies, edited by BCNM alum Bonnie Ruberg (with Adrienne Shaw), has been reviewed in First Person Scholar. Read more

Alum Bonnie Ruberg has been published in the June 2017 issue of Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds. Read more

Alum Bonnie Ruberg and Amanda Philips are guest editors for a special issue in Game Studies, the international journal of computer game research.   Read more

Bonnie Ruberg and Chris Goetz, co-organizers and founders of the Queerness and Games Conference, collaborated on a published piece titled "In Practice: Queerness and Games." Read more

At the beginning of October, alum Bonnie Ruberg attended IndieCade in Downtown Los Angeles to speak about the relationship between games and politics. Read more

Sonia Katyal, a BCNM faculty member and law professor at Berkeley, publishes an article on why you should be suspicious of that study claiming A.I. can detect a person’s sexual orientation. Read more

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

A guide written by Bonnie Ruberg, a Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar at USC Read more

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

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