BCNM is thrilled to support our students in their summer research. Read about Lee Crandall on Visualizing Crypto-Economic/Ecologic Networks! Read more

Featuring a range of essays, including from our own Hannah Zeavin! Read more

We wish them well in their future pursuits! Join us in applauding their accomplishments! Read more

This semester, the Berkeley Center for New Media was thrilled to support four faculty members in their scholarship through seed grants that will help catalyze their research in new media. We are excited to congratulate these amazing artists and scholars! Read more

Published by MIT Press, this new volume explores the cultural ramifications of online live streaming, including its effects on identity and power in digital spaces. Read more

The Parables Experience takes place at MozFest! Read more

Digital technologies, climate damage, algorithms, capitalocene, ecology, environmental studies, and digital literature! Read more

Alumni Christo Sims and Jen Schradie presented at the International Communication Association's 2022 conference. Read more

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

In this short teaser for her book, The Revolution That Wasn't, Jen Schradie asks whether the internet is conservative. Read more

Grégoire Barbey intervews alum Jen Schradie for Heidi.news on how the internet is dominated by conservative ideology. Read more

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

Camille Crittenden publishes an article on the Berkeley Blog on women in energy in honor of Women's History Month. Read more

Olivier Clairouin interviews Jen Schradie for Le Monde on whether the Right has won the fight for the internet in advance of the 2022 elections. Read more

Please join us in welcoming our 2021 Undergraduate Certificate cohort! Read more

Listen to Jen Schradie in conversation with Xavier de la Porte on France Inter on Why the Internet Favors the Right. Read more

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

Jen Schradie's co-authored article on digital inequlities and content production was published in the Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Digital Media.  Read more

Ra Malika Imhotep was published in this volume, an illustrated oral history of Queer and Trans resistance. 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

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

Jen Shradie's book was reviewed in the American Journal of Sociology! Read more

Xiaowei Wang's The Future of Memory project is now online! Read more

Ra Malika Imhotep writes on 19th Century slavery abolitionists and modern day activists, and the suprising (literal) link of thread that connects them. Read more

Jen Schradie recently published an academic article titled "The Great Equalizer Reproduces Inequality: How the Digital Divide Is a Class Power Divide." Read more

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

Alum Jen Schradie's article “The Digital Activism Gap: How Class and Costs Shape Online Collective Action” was recognized in the CITAMS 2020 awards. Read more

Jen Schradie's book receives a fantastic review from Briana Trifiro. Read more

Alum Jen Schradie's book receives a stunning review from David Karpf. Read more

Tom McEnaney considers the aurality of indigenous activist Rigoberta Menchú's 1982 testimonio, the basis of her edited biography I, Rigoberta Menchú. Read more

Nicolas Celnik interviews alum Jen Schradie on "Si je devais structurer un mouvement social pendant une pandémie…" Read more

Watch Jen Schradie speak about digital technologies and their potential threats during a round table discussion at Sciences Po in April 2019. Read more

Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our students, faculty, and alumni in March 2020! Read more

Jen Schradie was the latest guest on the Inkwell: Authors and Artists online discussion board. Read more

"Trans Memory as Transmedia Activism" was published as a chapter in Social Memory, Cultural Movements, and Digital Media Read more

Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our faculty and alumni in February 2020! Read more

BCNM alum Jen Schradie's latest book receives an excellent review from Emily Drabinski in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Read more

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

Alum Jen Schradie's latest book receives an excellent review from Barbara Fister. Read more

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

Schradie recently went on the WashingTech Policy Podcast with Joe Miller to talk about her experience with "social media bias". 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

If you've been wondering "Have conservative groups mastered the art of internet activism?", Jen Schradie has the answer! Read more

More in the media from faculty Ken Goldberg and Koci Hernandez; and alumni Trevor Paglen, danah boyd, Jen Schradie, Tiffany Ng, Ritwik Banerji, Bo Ruberg, and Jane McGonigal.  Read more

BCNM alumni, faculty, and students will present at the National Women's Studies Association 2019 conference in San Francsico.  Read more

Juliana traveled to Senegal to study shifting notions of digital privacy and publicity. Read more

BCNM Alum Jen Schradie and digital activism was featured on KPFA's Against the Grain! Read more

Richard John's article "Why the Left Is Losing the Information Age" showcases Schradie's research on digital activism and inequality. Read more

Juliana published her article in Cultural Anthropology as part of the series, Culture at Large 2018 with Robin Kelley. Read more

The American Sociological Association's 2019 theme is "Engaging Social Justice for a Better World" Read more

Alum Jen Schradie spoke on France 24 on whether Democrats can mobilize their base for 2020. Read more

Check out the highlights and videos from a stellar season, featuring luminaries such as Roxane Gay and Adam Savage! Read more

Vox talks to Jen about "Why conservatives are winning the internet." The Revolution That Wasn't ​explains why digital activism helps conservatives more than liberals. Read more

Jen discusses her book The Revolution That Wasn't in North Carolina, where much of her research was based. Read more

Jen Schradie's The Revolution That Wasn't is featured in Wired's "14 Must-Read Books of the Summer." Read more

Jen Schradie published "Conservatives Use Social Media to Move Their Agendas Much More Than Liberals Do" in Newsweek. Read more

Co-editors Gail & Keith discuss #Identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation on Lily Goren's podcast. Read more

William White received a 2019 Faculty Seed Grant for "The People's Park Digital Heritage Project." Read more

Celeste Kidd received a 2019 BCNM Faculty Seed Grant for "The Role of Reasoning and Metacognition During Belief Formation in the Internet Era." Read more

Join Jen Schradie on April 16, 2019 at 5pm at the Sciences Po symposium! Read more

The Society Pages features allum Jen Schradie's research on the digital activism gap. Read more

Alum Jen Schradie presents her new book at #ecnEHESS at l'Institut des Systèmes Complexes Read more

If you're in Paris on Thursday, March 14th, join Jen Schradie for a discussion on digital activism! Read more

Schradie's studies of digital democracy indicate a large class and race based gap in digital activism in the US. Read more

The team will study the invisible work of maintaining open-source software Read more

Critical Making: Designing for Activism, featuring BCNM faculty Eric Paulos and Jill Miller as instructors, will be at the 10th International UBI Summer School in Oulu, Finland.  Read more

Jen Schradie published her findings on the class and race gap in the digital democracy for the LSE US Centre. Read more

Bonnie Ruberg helped organize several panels at the premiere international event dedicated to celebrating independent games from around the globe.  Read more

John Scott contributed to two discussions at the 68th Annual LRA Conference. Read more

We are thrilled to welcome to the BCNM these talented students from across campus. Read more

BCNM alum Jen Schradie was interviewed by Digital Society (article in French) Read more

Andrew Atwood was featured in Issue 7 of Project Journal at Archinect Outpost. Read more

Feminist Media Studies published Bonnie's article "Representing sex workers in video games: feminisms, fantasies of exceptionalism, and the value of erotic labor" Read more

Bodies of Information is a collection of feminist contributions to digital humanities, and one of the published authors to be featured in the book is alum Bonnie Ruberg. Read more

BCNM alum Jen Schradie will be the keynote speaker for the 2018 Media Sociology Preconference taking place in August. Read more

Overwhelmed by the amazing panels at CHI 2018? Make your CHI experience a BCNM one with our guide to where our students, faculty, and alumni will be presenting! Read more

Alum Jen Schradie published an article on the North Carolina Moral Monday protests in Social Media & Society Read more

BCNM Alum Jen Schradie gave a talk, "The Digital Activism Gap: Social Media, Social Movements and Social Class," at Cal! Read more

Schradie published "The Digital Activism Gap" in Social Problems Read more

Yairamaren Roman Maldonado reflects on her experience at the Imagining America conference, which was funded by a BCNM Fall Student Grant. Read more

BCNM alum Jen Schradie spoke with CNN about the #MeToo movement, discussing effective mobilization and action through a digital medium. Read more

Jen Schradie, BCNM alum and sociologist with the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, discussed "hashtag activism" and the possibility of #MeToo becoming a part of a larger movement.  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

Next Thursday evening, Rael will speak on a panel among academics, authors, and artists to discuss art and activism Read more

From software arts to self-tracking technologies, cybernetics to techno-ecologies, we are thrilled to introduce the speakers in this year's History and Theory of New Media program. Read more

Jackson was part of a moderated discussion on the future of artistic engagement in public life. Read more

Eric Paulos challenged his Critical Making class (NWMEDIA 203) to create and present a novel protest object.  Read more

Each of the following students have received funding to help defray the costs of presenting their research at the premiere conferences in their fields! Read more

The issue was co-edited by UC Berkeley's own Julia Bryan-Wilson, as well as Jennifer González and Dominic Willsdon Read more

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

Watch this amazing ATC lecture on activism and technology, right here! Read more

From their probing talk, "A Hack in the Odious Machine: Digital Organizing Tools for the Precariat," a part of the ATC series here at BCNM Read more

A recording of the community organizer's lecture, "Social and Community Engaged Work: The Genuine and the Artificial" Read more

Honoring the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement Read more

A lecture by the community artist and muralist earlier this month Read more

We are proud to announce our latest cohort of graduating BCNM Designated Emphasis and Masters Certificate students Read more

BCNM was excited to celebrate the research of its graduating Ph.D. candidates on Thursday, April 10th, at its Student Research Presentations Reception. Read more

Session A, May 28 - July 3, 2013 Read more

Critical Making will operationalize and critique the practice of “making” through both foundational literature and hands on studio culture Read more