Welcome to the Berkeley Center for New Media

We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Lee Crandall presented "Plotting Cryptoeconomic Imaginaries and Counterplotting the Network State" at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in Detroit, Michigan. Read more

We're so pleased to provide undergraduate research opportunities! This past semester, Fizzah Kayani worked with Arianna Khmelniuk on Olfactory Narratives in Cinema, a project examining how scent-related language in film reflects and reinforces power dynamics, ideologies, and binary oppositions—particularly around gender, race, and global culture. Read more

We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Zina Wang presented on the ceremonial destruction of epidemic-related personal data at the 2025 Modern Language Association Annual Convention in New Orleans. Read more

We're so pleased to provide undergraduate research opportunities! McKenzie Diep worked with Maria Pettis on Bottomlands: Mapping Black Cemeteries in the Mid-South, a project addressing pending erasures of place, memory, and sites of meaning by archiving and constructing a public database of traces, scattered across material, mnemonic, and digital archives. Read more

We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Connie Gu presented on Mobile Technology and Teens at the Association for Computing Machinery CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Read more

BCNM is excited to support more community engaged projects. This year, our faculty could apply for funds to support their community engaged work. Greg Niemeyer and Emma Fraser were awarded a grant of $5,000 a year for three years to fund their work with We the People of Detroit. Read more