This is a great opportunity to connect with faculty, students, and staff on campus who work in the new media space. Read more
06 May, 2016
Special Events
The Origins of Japanese Comics, 1905-28
A presentation on the political origins of Japanese comic satire Read more
15 Mar, 2024
Alum Andrea Horbinski on Dragon Ball Z Creator
Hear Andrea Horbinski speak about Toriyama's legacy. Read more
06 Jan, 2023
Andrea Horbinski at CasaCon22
Andrea Horbinski presented at CasaCon22 this past December. Read more
11 Mar, 2022
Andrea Horbinski Translation of 2B-Dan in Mechademia
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07 Feb, 2022
Andrea Horbinski Reviews Fandom: Now In Color
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04 Jan, 2022
Andrea Horbinski Reviews Japan's Green Monsters
BCNM alumn Andrea Horbinksi reviews Japan's Green Monsters: Environmental Commentary in Kaiju Cinema in H-Net Reviews' December 2021 edition. 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
13 Oct, 2020
Andrea Horbinski in Careers for Historians in the Tech Industry
BCNM alumn Andrea Horbinski features in a round table discussion on the role of historians in the tech industry. Read more
29 Sep, 2020
BCNM Around the Web October 2020
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this October! Read more
03 Sep, 2020
Andrea Horbinski on Fans, Love, and Anime Since 1963
Alum Andrea Horbinski was recently on the Making of a Historian podcast, discussing "Fans, Love, and Anime Since 1963." Read more
24 Jul, 2020
Mechademia Guest-Edited by Andrea Horbinski Published
The issue on "Transnational Fandom" is available via the University of Minnesota Press. Read more
01 Sep, 2019
BCNM around the Web September 2019
More in the media from faculty Abigail De Kosnik, Nicholas de Monchaux, Ken Goldberg, and Tom McEnaney; and alumni Jenni Higgs, Andrea Horbinski, Jane McGonigal, Trevor Paglen, Ritwik Banerji and Jen Schradie. Read more
20 Jul, 2019
Andrea Horbinski Reviews Books for Sirens
Alum Andrea Horbinksi is on the Sirens team reviewing fantasy literature by women authors. Read more
23 Apr, 2019
Alum Andrea Horbinski on the Untold History of Japanese Comics at Baruch College
BCNM alum Andrea Horbinski presented at the Manga Symposium #5 Untold History of Japanese Comics: Prewar & LGBTQ+ Manga. Read more
28 Jan, 2019
Alum Andrea Horbinski Guest Editor for Mechademia
Mechademia focuses on Japanese popular culture, and the isuse will detail "Transnational Fandoms." Read more
05 Nov, 2018
Alum Andrea Horbinski Publishes on 90s Female Media Fans in Internet Histories
BCNM alum Andrea Horbinski looks at gender differences in 1990s fandoms, publishing her research in peer-reviewed jorunal Internet Histories.Read more
23 Jul, 2018
Alum Andrea Horbinski Teaching at Sirens 2018
Join alum Andrea Horbinski to discuss transitioning out of academia at Sirens 2018! Read more
26 Jun, 2018
Alum Andrea Horbinski at the ICC Sophia University
Andrea traveled to Tokyo, Japan, to present at Sophia University's Institute of Comparative Culture. Read more
06 Jun, 2018
Alum Andrea Horbinski Receives Honorable Mention for The Chute Award
We're thrilled to share that alum Andrea Horbinski received an honorable mention for The Chute Awardin the inaugural Comics Studies Society Awards. Read more
04 Jun, 2018
Alum Andrea Horbinski at Mechademia 2018
Alum Andrea Horbinski presented "A Children's Empire: The Prewar 'Media Mix' of the Kodansha Club Magazines" at the Mechademic Kyoto conference. Read more
23 Apr, 2018
Andrea Horbinski at PCA/ACA 2018
Andrea Hobinski is a writer, reseracher, historian, and a BCNM alumni that has recently presented a part of her dissertation research at PCA/ACA 2018. Read more
02 Mar, 2018
Alum Andrea Horbinski at Beyond Academia Conference
Horbinski spoke at the Beyond Academia Conference as part of the Media and Communication panel. Read more
30 Jan, 2018
Andrea Horbinski at AHA
Alum Andrea Horbinski presented at the American Historical Association's 132nd Annual Meeting. Read more
31 Oct, 2017
Alum Andrea Horbinski at Sirens 2017 Conference
Andrea Horbinski will be participating in two program items for the Sirens 2017 Conference in Colorado. Read more
12 Oct, 2017
Alum Andrea Horbinski at Mechademia 2017
Andrea Horbinski, BCNM alum, talked about manga as a science fiction medium at the Mechademia conference in late September. Read more
16 May, 2017
Announcing Our 2017 Graduates
We look forward to sharing their future endeavors!
We are thrilled by the ambitious and innovative work these students are all completing Read more
17 Feb, 2016
Revisited: BEARS 2016
BCNM was pleased to host an open house for the Berkeley Engineering Annual Research Symposium of 2016 Read more
04 Feb, 2016
Andrea Horbinski Published in Mechademia
Her article focuses on the alternative history of Japan presented in Ōoku (大奥), a manga by Fumi Yoshinaga Read more
17 Nov, 2015
Meet Andrea Horbinski
From a young age, Andrea was drawn to fantasy and science fiction Read more
01 Sep, 2015
Summer Dispatches 2015: Andrea Horbinski
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17 Aug, 2015
Ada Initiative Shutting Down
The Ada Initiative helps women get involved and stay involved in open source, open data, open education, and other areas of free and open technology and culture Read more
23 Jun, 2015
BCNM at DHSI 2015
The Berkeley Center for New Media was well represented at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2015 in Victoria, Canada this year! Read more
06 Apr, 2015
Summer 2015 Research Awards
BCNM is proud to announce the recipients of its Summer 2015 Research Awards! Read more
"Watching, creating, and archiving" paper published in Convergence
On the quantity and temporality of fannish productivity in online fan fiction archives" Read more
17 Sep, 2014
Adventures in New Media
06 Aug, 2014
Summer Dispatches: Andrea Horbinski
Andrea Horbinski was one of five exceptional graduate students to be awarded a $1000 BCNM Summer Research Award. Check out what she's done so far! Read more
10 Apr, 2014
Announcing BCNM's 2014 Summer Research Awards
Congratulations to this year's Summer Research Award recipients! Each student will receive $1,000 of summer assistance to support their research initiatives. Read more
08 Apr, 2014
Andrea Horbinski Awarded Koo Fellowship
The Dr. C.F. Koo and Cecilia Koo Chair endowment was established in 2008 at the University of California, Berkeley Read more
01 Apr, 2014
Meet BCNM's Gail De Kosnik and the Fan Data & Net Differences Team
These UC Berkeley professors have pioneered new methods of exploring internet cultures Read more
23 Apr, 2013
BCNM New Media Students showcase Research at Spring Semester Presentation
UC Berkeley graduate students with a Designated Emphasis in New Media presented their research on April 17, 2013 in the BCNM Commons to an audience of students, faculty, and members of the public Read more
04 Dec, 2012
BCNM Welcomes Newly Admitted Students to the DE and Certificate in New Media
We are very pleased to welcome new graduate students to our Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate program! Read more
