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

Jacob Gaboury has published a review of  Uncomputable: Play and Politics in the Long Digital Age by Alexander R. Galloway Read more

Alum Kaitlin Forcier reviews Domenico Quaranta's Surfing with Satoshi: Art, Blockchain and NFTs in Media-N! Read more

April Riddle reviews Jacob Gaboury's Image Objects in Media-N! Read more

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

A print magazine devoted to psychoanalysis called Parapraxis. Parapraxis aims to provide a home for psychoanalytic writing and creativity, addressed to the public. Read more

Our alum Jen Schradie published this as chapter 28 in Part V Social Inequalities in the Digital Landscape of The Oxford Handbook of Digital Media Sociology. Read more

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

Berlant’s new book, On the Inconvenience of Other People, serves as a sequel of sorts to Cruel Optimism, the work that guaranteed Berlant’s fame beyond the academy. Read more

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

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

Alum Jane McGonigal's “Imaginable” is reviewed in the Datebook. Read more

Emily Bobrow writes "Jane McGonigal Believes Games Can Change the World" for the WSJ. Read more

Dawn Chan reviews Jane McGonigal's IMAGINABLE: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything ― Even Things That Seem Impossible Today.
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'Imaginable' is the most important book you’ll read this year! Read more

Jacob Gaboury's Image Objects was reviewed in Information & Culture by Nabeel Siddiqui. Read more

Jane McGonigal's latest book Imaginable was reviewed by Shira Abramovich on Reboot.  Read more

Hannah's book 'The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy' is featured in Continuum Innovation. Read more

Alenda Y Chang's review of Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene is featured in the Winter 2021 issue of the journal: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment.  Read more

BCNM alumn Andrea Horbinksi reviews Japan's Green Monsters: Environmental Commentary in Kaiju Cinema in H-Net Reviews' December 2021 edition. Read more

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

Hannah Zeavin's The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy is reviewed in The Point Magazine. Read more

Hannah Zeavin's book is reviewed in The Polyphony: Conversations Across the Medical Humanities. Read more

Letha Ch’ien reviews the art installation in San Jose that sounds off on the ‘weirding of truth’ each day at noon. Read more

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

Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan reviews Jacob Gaboury's newest book, Image Objects! Read more

BCNM faculty Hannah Zeavin's The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy was reviewed by Wendy Lotterman in Critical Inquiry. Read more

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

It was a whirlwind year for BCNM and we're so proud to share some of our greatest hits from 2021.  Read more

Film & Media student Kaitlin Forcier reviews de Young museum's Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI. Read more

Alenda Chang's Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games was recently reviewed by Gamers with Glasses. Read more

Alenda Chang's Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games was recently reviewed in journal Critical Inquiry. Read more

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

BCNM alumni and faculty present at the American Association of Geographers Annual Conference! Read more

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

A live-tweeted review of Abigail De Kosnik's book, Rogue Archives, was published in DHQ. Read more

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

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

Keith Feldman wrote on anti-Muslim racism for American Quarterly's December 2019 issue.  Read more

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

Trevor Paglen's Orbital Reflector was reviewed in College Art Association Reviews Read more

Alum Andrea Horbinksi is on the Sirens team reviewing fantasy literature by women authors. Read more

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

Alum Grace Gipson published "The ‘Baby Dolls’ of New Orleans: Gender, Race, and Self-Creation," a review on  Walking Raddy: The Baby Dolls of New Orleans in Black perspectives. Read more

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

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

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

Two more publications have reviewed alum Bonnie Ruberg's Queer Game Studies. Read more

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

Claudia Ruslim, recipient of a BCNM undergraduate research fellowship, was selected to act as a research assistant to Will Payne. Read more

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

A Berkeley Center for New Media GSI has received an the "Outstanding GSI Award" from the GSI Teaching and Resource Center. 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

BCNM ExComm member Abigail De Kosnik's book, Rogue Archives, was reviewed by Leondardo Reviews. Read more

Alum Kate Mattingly reviews Radical Bodies: Anna Halprin, Simone Forti, and Yvonne Rainer in California and New York, 1955 to 1972. Read more

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

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

Joseph is a PhD candidate in the Department of Rhetoric 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