2 days ago Global Digital Infrastructures at Summer Opportunities Fair 2026 The Global Digital Infrastructures team connects with UC Berkeley students at the Summer Opportunities Fair, sharing insights into the hidden systems that power the digital world and introducing opportunities to get involved with the GDI Certificate. Read more
2 days ago Chloé Mauvais and Alexis Wood to Lead New Media Working Group We're delighted to announce that Chloé Mauvais and Alexis Wood will serve as the next coordinators of the New Media Working Group for the 2026–2027 academic year. Read more
4 days ago BCNM Director Tom McEnaney Co‑Authors New Punk Archives Book BCNM's Director, Tom McEnaney, co-authors a new book celebrating punk culture, We’re Having Much More Fun: Punk Archives for the Present from CBGB to Gilman and Beyond, with Judith A. Peraino of Cornell University. Read more
6 days ago Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Deadline Extended to March 19 The Berkeley Center for New Media is pleased to support undergraduates, in particular those undertaking our New Media Certificate, to support new media graduate students on dissertation-level research. Deadline extended to March 19. Read more
6 days ago Support BCNM During The Big Give Your gift to BCNM helps fund cutting-edge programs like the Global Digital Infrastructure Certificate, Indigenous Technologies initiatives led by scholar and artist Talia Dixon, and Disability Justice workshops, ensuring students and researchers continue to explore how technology shapes society and how it can be built responsibly. Read more
1 week ago UC Berkeley News: Behind the scenes of Native Seas with Sophia Perez UC Berkeley News features BCNM student Sophia Perez (PhD Candidate, Geography) and the story of how she came to organize Native Seas, our weeklong series of events on the revitalization of Pacific Indigenous seafaring. Read more
05 Mar, 2026 Building a Sustainable Internet: Lessons from Subsea with Nicole Starosielski In a lecture from The Brilliance of Berkeley series, UC Berkeley Film and Media professor Nicole Starosielski explores how sustainability initiatives can reshape the backbone of the internet: subsea fiber-optic cables. Read more
04 Mar, 2026 Lyman Recipient: Sophia Perez BCNM is excited to announce Sophia Perez (Ph.D. candidate in Geography) as the 2026 Peter Lyman Fellow! Read more
04 Mar, 2026 Claudia von Vacano Joins Science Ethics Panel BCNM Executive Committee member Claudia Natalia von Vacano jons Schmidt Science Fellows at UC Berkeley to discuss integrating ethics and equity into scientific research. Read more
02 Mar, 2026 Lyman Fellowship Report: Meg Everett and Eda Er Our 2025 Lyman Fellows Eda Er (Music Composition) and Meg Everett (Learning Sciences and Human Development) report on how their fellowships have enabled them to progress in their respective research projects on traditional Turkish Ebru (marbling) techniques and on the ways social media platforms shape schooling experiences. Read more
in 4 days Global Digital Infrastructure A Virtual Tour of Surveillance Technology at the U.S.-Mexico Border with Dave Maass Director of Investigations, Electronic Frontier Foundation A Building a Global, Equitable, and Just Internet Infrastructure event, co-sponored by the Latinx Research Center Read more
08 Apr, 2026 Art, Tech & Culture Hitting Walls: Bounce and the Performance of Limits with Carlin Wing Associate Professor, Media Studies, Scripps College An Arts, Technology, & Culture Colloquium lecture Read more
