01 Oct, 2020 Workshops Grad Chat: Advice on the Academic Job Market from Berkeley Alums Featuring Alenda Chang, Neha Kumar, and Aaminah Norris Moderated by Jacob Gaboury, Assistant Professor of Film & Media Read more
31 May, 2024 Where the Model Ends Fascinating new article from alum Alenda Chang on modeling in videogames! Read more
29 May, 2024 Alum Alenda Chang Co-Edits The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies gathers leading work by critical scholars in this burgeoning field. Read more
11 Mar, 2024 BCNM at SCMS 2024 Check out the work of our students, faculty, and alumni at SCMS 2024! Read more
03 Apr, 2023 BCNM Around the Web April 2023 Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this April! Read more
09 Jan, 2023 BCNM at MLA 2023 Alumni Katherine Chandler, Alenda Chang, and Lashon Daley featured their research at MLA 2023. Read more
24 Oct, 2022 BCNM Around the Web October Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this October! Read more
07 Aug, 2022 Big Gaming Questions with Alenda Chang Alenda Chang joins in an asynchronous roundtable discussion with Tara Fickle, Gregory Grieve, and Chris Patterson on Gaming Plus Project. Read more
01 Jul, 2022 BCNM Around the Web June 2022 Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this June! Read more
22 Jun, 2022 Alenda Chang's Playing Nature Reviewed in the Journal of Environmental Media Read the review by Kara Stone of "Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games" Read more
20 Jun, 2022 Alenda Chang on Reimagining the History of Media Studies BCNM alum Alenda Chang's Reimagining the History of Media Studies through Games, Play, and the Uncanny Valley is in the amazing lineup for the recently published Uncanny Histories in Film and Media! Read more
19 Jun, 2022 Alenda Chang on Ecology & Technology Watch Alenda Chang present at Penn State on ecology and technology! Read more
12 Jun, 2022 Alenda Chang on the Damaged Planet BCNM alum Alenda Chang presented at day two of The Damaged Planet, a conference presented by Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM). Read more
21 May, 2022 BCNM Around the Web May Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this May! Read more
28 Apr, 2022 The Queer Posthumanism of Video Games that cannot be Played Bo Ruburg published an article in Convergence, offering a queer reading of Brent Watanabe’s 2016 video game–based art piece San Andreas Deer Cam, a mod of Grand Theft Auto V in which a computer-controlled deer wanders the game’s extensive open world. Read more
13 Apr, 2022 BCNM Around the Web April 2022 Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this April 2022! Read more
08 Mar, 2022 To Practice an Understanding that the World is Made with Alenda Chang Natalia Zuluaga in conversation with Alenda Y. Chang and Jason Edward Lewis on Shift Space 2.0. Read more
13 Jan, 2022 Alenda Chang Reviews Feral Atlas 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
04 Jan, 2022 BCNM at MLA 2022 Check out our faculty and alumni at this year's Modern Language Association annual conference. Read more
27 Dec, 2021 BCNM Around the Web December 2021 Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this past December 2021! Read more
08 Dec, 2021 BCNM Around the Web November 2021 Check out the work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web! Read more
27 Nov, 2021 Alenda Chang on Ecological Crisis and Video Games Computer games can address ecological concerns. But is a game only ecological if it explicitly deals with environmental issues on the content level? Read more
14 Sep, 2021 Playing Nature Reviewed in Media + Environment BCNM alum Alenda Chang's 2019 book Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games was reviewed Media+Environment. Read more
21 Aug, 2021 BCNM Around the Web August 2021 Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni around the web this August! Read more
28 Jun, 2021 Playing Nature Reviewed on Gamers with Glasses Alenda Chang's Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games was recently reviewed by Gamers with Glasses. Read more
22 Jun, 2021 Playing Nature Reviewed in Critical Inquiry Alenda Chang's Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games was recently reviewed in journal Critical Inquiry. Read more
19 Jun, 2021 BCNM Around the Web June Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this June! Read more
04 Jun, 2021 Alenda Chang on the Ethics of Eating Pokemon BCNM alum Alenda Chang was recently featured on the Gamers with Glasses podcast where she discussed video games and environmentalism, among other interesting topics. Read more
25 May, 2021 BCNM Around the Web May 2021 Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web in May! Read more
04 May, 2021 Alenda Chang in Celebration of Media + Environment BCNM alum Alenda Chang was featured in a rountable discussion in celebration of the online journal Media + Environment. Read more
25 Apr, 2021 Watch Alenda Chang Talk on Playing for the Planet BCNM alum and UCSB media studies professor Alenda Chang is a featured speaker in the Univeristy of Delaware "Intersections of Video Games and Culture" speaker series. Read more
17 Apr, 2021 BCNM Around the Web April 2021 Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this April! Read more
30 Mar, 2021 Alenda Chang on Primal Tourism BCNM alum Alenda Chang is being featured in artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen's online VR ecological art event, focused on the intersection between ecology, sustainability, and technologies. Read more
18 Mar, 2021 Alenda Chang Interview at Serpentine Galleries Alenda Chang was recently interviewed by Serpentine Galleries. Check it out! Read more
25 Feb, 2021 Alenda Chang on Rambunctious Video Games for Do Your Bit Alenda Chang was recently featured on the podcast, Doing our Bit, to discuss rambunctious video games. Read more
18 Feb, 2021 BCNM SCMS 2021 The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by 13 BCNM students, faculty, and alumni! Read more
08 Feb, 2021 BCNM Around the Web February 2021 Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this February! Read more
07 Feb, 2021 BCNM at MLA 2021 BCNM faculty, alumni, and graduate student participate in MLA's 2021 Conference. Read more
30 Jan, 2021 Alenda Chang on Gamers with Glasses Alum Alenda Chang features on Gamers with Glasses podcast to discuss Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games. Read more
30 Nov, 2020 BCNM Around the Web December Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this December! Read more
14 Nov, 2020 Playing Nature Reviewed in ISLE Alumn Alenda Chang's Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games is reviewed in ISLE. Read more
07 Oct, 2020 Alenda Chang and Playing Nature Featured in ASLE Playing Nature is her first book which examines the perennially murky space between nature and technology. Read more
11 Aug, 2020 Fall 2020 BCNM Events Mark your calendars for this incredible line up of speakers! Read more
11 Aug, 2020 Playing Nature Reviewed in Manchester Game Studies Network Sam Illingworth reviewed alum Alenda's Chang latest book on ecology in video games. Read more
08 Aug, 2020 Mediating Art and Science Co-Edited by Alenda Chang Media+Environment publishes its latest issue, with three new essays on reconciling art and science. Read more
06 Aug, 2020 Review of Playing Nature in Digital Culture and Education Alum Alenda Chang's book is reviewed in Digital Culture and Education Read more
09 Jul, 2020 Alum Alenda Chang Publishes A Manifesto for Environmental Game Design "The landscapes we inhabit are in part a product of our representations, and increasingly they will need to be consciously designed rather than left to chance." Read more
17 Jun, 2020 BCNM Around the Web June 2020 Check out the amazing talks and discussions around the work of our faculty and alumni in June 2020! Read more
13 May, 2020 Alenda Chang on Advisory Board of Video Games and the Humanities Alenda Chang, BCNM alum, is on the advisory board for Video Games and the Humanities, a series that frames scholarly approaches to video games in the humanities. Read more
09 Apr, 2020 Alenda Chang on Super Gamer Podcast Listen to Alenda Chang talk about the environment and the natural world in games on the Super Gamer Podcast! Read more
01 Apr, 2020 Alum Alenda Chang's Playing Nature on Chroniques Vidéoludiques BCNM alum Alenda Chang's new book was featured in Chroniques Vidéoludiques! Read more
30 Mar, 2020 Alum Alenda Chang in France Culture BCNM Alum Alenda Chang's work was featured in the Savoirs section of France Culture. Read more
10 Mar, 2020 Alum Alenda Chang Publishes A Life Well Played in FMH BCNM Alum Alenda Chang published "Une Vie Bien Jouée / A Life Well Played: The Cultural Legacy of Game Designer Muriel Tramis" in Feminist Media Histories. Read more
02 Mar, 2020 Alenda Chang's Playing Nature in Foreword Reviews Foreword Reviews recently featured Alenda Chang's Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games. Read more
24 Feb, 2020 Alenda Chang's Playing Nature in Science Alum Alenda Chang's book Playing Nature was reviewed in Science. Read more
20 Feb, 2020 Alenda Chang's Media+Environment Featured at UCSB Alenda Chang and her colleagues established an online journal Media+Environment. Check out the UCSB in depth discussion here! Read more
20 Feb, 2020 BCNM at SCMS 2020 The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by eight BCNM students, faculty and alumni! Read more
19 Feb, 2020 Alenda Chang on Digital Morphogenesis Alenda Chang's article, "Between Plants and Polygons: SpeedTrees and an Even Speedier History of Digital Morphogenesis" was included in the December 2019 issue of the journal "Natural Media". Read more
11 Feb, 2020 Inaugural Media + Environment Published, Co-edited by Alum Alenda Chang Alum Alenda Chang is one of the co-editors for the inaugural ecomedia research journal, Media+Environment. Read more
05 Feb, 2020 BCNM at SLSA 2019 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
13 Jan, 2020 BCNM Around the Web January 2020 Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our faculty, students, and alumni in January 2020! Read more
26 Dec, 2019 BCNM Alumni at 4S 2019 Four BCNM alumni participated at 4S 2019 in September, the annual meeting for the Society for Social Studies of Science. Read more
02 Nov, 2019 BCNM Around the Web November 2019 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
05 Aug, 2019 Alum Alenda Chang at ASLE 2019 The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment's Thirteenth Biennial Conference was held at UC Davis in June. Read more
21 Jun, 2019 Alum Alenda Chang Quoted in Le Monde Can video games help raise awareness about ecological causes? Alum Alenda Chang weighs in on the debate in a recent Le Monde article on video games and environmentalism. Read more
19 Jun, 2019 Alum Alenda Chang Co-Editor of Media + Environment Alenda serves as one of the founding co-editors of a new journal, Media + Environment. Read more
21 Feb, 2019 BCNM at SCMS 2019 The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by thirteen BCNM students, faculty, and alumni! Read more
20 May, 2013 Inventing the Future of Games 2013: Interactive Storytelling Symposium, Report by Chris Goetz IFOG 2013 Symposium brought together academics and practitioners (as well as academic practitioners) for a stimulating conversation about storytelling in videogames Read more
07 May, 2013 BCNM's Recent Graduates from the Designated Emphasis in New Media Congratulations to all! Read more
31 Aug, 2012 The Art of Video Games? Alenda Chang, Ph.D. Rhetoric, DE in New Media, UC Berkeley Read more
08 Aug, 2012 New Media Summer Research Fellowships Awarded to BCNM DE's Congratulations to the following students! Read more
