Announcing our Summer 2024 Research Award Recipients
Congratulations to our 2024 Summer Research recipients from Geography, Music, Education, Architecture, East Asian Studies, Public Health, Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, and Film & Media. Read more
30 Mar, 2024
Ken Goldberg at ICRA 2024
Check out the work Ken Goldberg is presenting at ICRA 2024! Read more
11 Mar, 2024
BCNM at SCMS 2024
Check out the work of our students, faculty, and alumni at SCMS 2024! Read more
06 Jan, 2023
Andrea Horbinski at CasaCon22
Andrea Horbinski presented at CasaCon22 this past December. Read more
19 Jun, 2022
Damon Young Edits Special Issue of Representations
Damon Young, with Debarati Sanyal and Mario Telò, edits a special issue of Representations on Proximities — Readings with Judith Butler. Read more
02 Jun, 2021
Work by Maija Hynninen & Olivia Ting at SF Contemporary Music Until June 23
BCNM DE Maija Hynninen (Music) and alum Olivia Ting (Art Practice) are working together on an event at San Francisco Contemporary Music Players through June 23! 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
21 May, 2021
Congratulating our 2021 Graduates
These students have been pivotal to the new media landscape at Cal, and we are excited to see the incredible future work they undertake in their respective fields.
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
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
20 Nov, 2019
Conference Grants: Miyoko Conley on the Nebulous Transnational Fandom Archive
Miyoko Conley, a recipients of our Fall 2019 Conference grant, presented her research on transnational fandoms at the annual Fan Studies Network-North America (FSN-NA) conference. Read more
07 Oct, 2019
Announcing the Fall 2019 Conference Grant Recipients
The Berkeley Center for New Media is thrilled to provide small grants to our graduate students to help them share their innovative research at the premier conferences in their field. 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
03 Jul, 2019
New Papers from Ken Goldberg at ICRA 2019
Ken Goldberg co-authored several papers presented at ICRA 2019. Read more
Summer Research Dispatch: Ritwik Banerji on Improvisation
This summer, Ritwik Banerji studied improvisatory jazz to see if musicians tended toward novelty or conventionality. Read more
13 Jul, 2018
Ken Goldberg at RSS Workshop
The theme was "New Benchmarks, Metrics, and Competitions for Robotic Learning." 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
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!
Her article focuses on the alternative history of Japan presented in Ōoku (大奥), a manga by Fumi Yoshinaga Read more
24 Nov, 2015
Kate Mattingly on the Forty Part Motet
BCNM's Kate Mattingly (TDPS DE) had the opportunity to join SFMOMA talks of the Forty Part Motet Read more
12 Oct, 2015
Ken Goldberg at ISRR 2015 Conference
Ken was a co-author on "Transition State Clustering: Unsupervised Surgical Trajectory Segmentation For Robot Learning " Read more
13 Jul, 2015
Best Video Prize at Hamlyn Surgical Robot Challenge
10 Jun, 2015
Ken Goldberg Finalist at ICRA 2015
11 Feb, 2015
"Watching, creating, and archiving" paper published in Convergence
On the quantity and temporality of fannish productivity in online fan fiction archives" Read more
18 Nov, 2014
Welcoming New DE and Certificate Students
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
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
Spring 2025
Applications for Summer 2025 are due March 13, 2025.
New Media Research Fellowship
Applications for Summer 2025 are due March 13, 2025.
