05 Feb, 2024 Special Events AAPI Media Creatives Fellowship Talkback AAPI industry leaders Lacy Lew Nguyen Wright (Manager of Social Innovation, Endeavor), Jason Lin (Producer, Story Arch Pictures), and Laura Reddy (Manager, Range Media Partners). Read more
09 Feb, 2023 Special Events Hollywood Internships 2023 AAPI industry leaders Jason Lin (Producer, Story Arch Pictures), Lacy Lew Nguyen Wright (Executive Director, Hillman Grad Productions), and Laura Reddy (Manager, Range Media Partners). Read more
07 Mar, 2022 Special Events Asian Americans in Hollywood: Breaking Through with Lasting Impact in the Industry with Daniel Wu, Melvin Mar, Jason Lin, and Gail De Kosnik Co-sponsored by Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies and Eastwind Books of Berkeley. The first in a two part series on Asian Americans and AAPI in the media and entertainment industry. The event will be free of charge and open to the public, but will encourage attendees to make donations to the new Scholarship for AAPI and Media & Entertainment Creatives. Read more
04 Mar, 2021 Conference Fandom + Piracy Keynote: “Studies in Unauthorized Reproduction” with Kavita Philip The President's Excellence Chair in Network Cultures at the University of British Columbia and a Professor of English with the UBC Department of English Language and Literatures Read more
21 Oct, 2019 Commons Conversations On the Fringe of Minitel: Alternative Uses of a State-Sponsored Communications Network A Participatory Masterclass with Julien Mailland Associate Professor of Telecommunications, Indiana University Media School Read more
23 Apr, 2019 Special Events DataEDGE 2019 The DataEDGE conference at UC Berkeley brings together senior industry and academic leaders for a conversation about the challenges and opportunities created by the rise of big data. Read more
11 Apr, 2019 Special Events Sarah Winchester and the Origins of Silicon Valley with Homay King Bryn Mawr College Presented by the Berkeley Film & Media Seminar. Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for New Media. Read more
12 Feb, 2019 Special Events DataEDGE 2019 The DataEDGE conference at UC Berkeley brings together senior industry and academic leaders for a conversation about the challenges and opportunities created by the rise of big data. Read more
11 Feb, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture News of the Future and the Future of News with Kevin Delaney Editor, Quartz In partnership with the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Read more
02 May, 2018 Special Events Critical Making Showcase Come to the free Critical Making Showcase at Jacobs Hall taking place Wednesday, May 2nd from 2-3:30pm as part of the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation Spring Read more
19 Mar, 2018 Art, Tech & Culture Yugoexport Is the Name of this Oral Corporation With Irena Haiduk Artist, Belgrade, Serbia Presented in partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series Read more
05 Oct, 2017 Commons Conversations Reply All: Free Speech in the Age of Social Media New media and modes of digital expression are transforming our experience of, and shaping conversations around free speech. Join us as faculty, students, and staff discuss this new landscape. Read more
03 May, 2017 Special Events Spring Critical Making Showcase Come celebrate the projects of Design Innovation students! Read more
04 Apr, 2017 History & Theory Digital Doomsday: A Perspective from the Pathology Called Europe with Jan De Vos Postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University (BE) Read more
02 Mar, 2017 History & Theory The Pirate Function with Kavita Philip, Associate Professor of History Read more
17 Jan, 2017 Art, Tech & Culture Collecting the Uncollectible with art collectors Pamela and Richard Kramlich in conversation with Larry Rinder, BAMPFA Director Read more
08 Dec, 2016 Art, Tech & Culture Designing Spatiality for New Media Art with Andrew and Deborah Rappaport, founders of the Minnesota Street Project Read more
27 Sep, 2016 Special Events Jane Jacobs and the Digital City in partnership with SPUR San Francisco Read more
27 Sep, 2016 Workshops Masterclass: Designing Jane Jacobs' Digital Cities Co-sponsored by the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society, the Global Urban Humanities Initiative, and the School of Information's Center for Technology, Society, and Policy. Read more
04 May, 2016 Special Events Critical Making Showcase Experience this season's NWMEDIA203 Showcase at Jacobs Hall Read more
21 Aug, 2015 Workshops WOW! Editing Group Information Session Empower Women on Wikipedia by becoming a mentor with the WOW! Editing Group Read more
14 May, 2015 Special Events Who Owns the Data? We're co-hosting keynote addresses, lightning talks, and panel discussions on individual agency in an increasingly digital world Read more
11 Dec, 2014 Special Events Count Me In: Walking & the City Presented by students, faculty and staff from the Global Urban Humanities program, CITRIS, BCNM, and the CITRIS Social Apps Lab Read more
14 May, 2013 Workshops New Media Research Workshop: “Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture” How can we better understand how content circulates within contemporary networked culture? Participate in this exciting workshop with Sam Ford Read more
24 Jan, 2013 Special Events Streams, Gardens, and Clouds: Visualizing Dynamic Data for Engagement, Education and the Environment A CITRIS Data and Democracy event to celebrate Data Innovation Day Read more
06 Nov, 2012 Special Events Designing for In-the-Moment Interactions with Robotic Agents Leila Takayama, research scientist, on communicating with robots Read more
23 Apr, 2012 Art, Tech & Culture On Vanishing: New Mythologies for Choreography in Museums with Jonah Bokaer, international choreographer, media artist, and artist space developer Read more
22 Sep, 2011 Special Events Co-Imagining Futures with Uday Danvadate, co-founder and CEO of SonicRim, a global design research consulting practice Read more
06 Sep, 2011 History & Theory Technology as the Architect of our Intimacies with Sherry Turkle -- pioneering technologist; professor, author, consultant, researcher and licensed clinical psychologist Read more
16 Mar, 2011 Special Events Crossing Boundaries: News, Technology, & Audiences Speakers from across UC Berkeley departments on social media and journalism. Read the distinguished roster in full here. Read more
02 Apr, 2025 Announcing the Instructors for the Summer 2025 Global Digital Infrastructure Certificate Read more
19 Feb, 2025 Apply for the 2025 AAPI Careers in Entertainment Creative Fellowship Applications are due April 7, 2025. Read more
02 Oct, 2024 Summer Research Reports: Elizabeth Sun on the Video Data Bank BCNM is thrilled to support our students in their summer research. Read about Elizabeth Sun on the Video Data Bank! Read more
11 Sep, 2024 Ken Goldberg's Jacobi Raises $5M Berkeley professor Ken Goldberg's AI startup is featured in The Robot Report and Business Wire! Read more
01 Jun, 2024 Global Urban Greening Strategies: From policies to community action. Alum Eleni Oikonomaki in Placemaking Week! Read more
13 Feb, 2024 Nicole Starosielski teaches Introduction to Digital Infrastructure this Summer This summer, Professor Nicole Starosielski teaches Introduction to Digital Infrastructure. The challenge of this course will be not only to learn about the infrastructures that comprise the digital "cloud," but to develop innovative representations of them, based on your own original research into the internet’s “plumbing.” Read more
29 Jan, 2024 danah boyd on Data Impact What is data science? How did we get to this point? And how will we use data science in the near and distant future? Read more
24 Dec, 2023 Ken Goldberg in The Robot Report Year in Review On this episode of the Robot Report Podcast titled, "2023 year in review: GenAI, humanoids dominate robotics industry", editors Steve Crowe, Gene Demaitre, and Mike Oitzman sit down and review their favorite robotics news stories from 2023. Read more
13 Dec, 2023 Interview with Edgar Fabián Frías in Bold Journey Edgar talks art and their journey to reach their current practice. Read more
07 Dec, 2023 BCNM Around the Web Fall 2023 Check out our faculty and alumni around the web this Fall 2023! Read more
05 Dec, 2023 Apply to TA in Summer 2024 TA for Transforming Tech or Digital Infrastructures this summer! Read more
02 Dec, 2023 Announcing Our Fall 2023 Undergraduate Cohort Please join us in welcoming our 2023 cohort of Undergraduate Certificate in New Media students! Read more
29 Nov, 2023 Apply for the 2024 AAPI Media Creatives Fellowship Applications are due March 1, 2024. Read more
04 Sep, 2023 Lyman Report: Rashad Timmons on Racialized Geography in Ferguson With the support of the Lyman Fellowship, Rashad Timmons traveled to Ferguson, Missouri to engage in fieldwork and archival research for my dissertation. Read more
18 May, 2023 Congratulating Our Spring 2023 Undergraduate Certificate Recipients We wish them well in their future pursuits! Congratulations Annie, Omeed, Silayan, and Sirui (Skylar)! Read more
02 Apr, 2023 Kaitlin Forcier Reviews Surfing with Satoshi Alum Kaitlin Forcier reviews Domenico Quaranta's Surfing with Satoshi: Art, Blockchain and NFTs in Media-N! Read more
29 Dec, 2022 Conference Grants: Eric Rawn at SHOT 2022 Eric presented on his work "Making Sense, Crystallizing Reason: Towards An Intellectual History of Pervasive Computing at Xerox PARC" at the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual Meeting 2022. Read more
15 Dec, 2022 Welcoming Our New Assistant Team Welcome Evelyn Arroyo, Nadeen Mohamed, and Andy Bui! Read more
06 Dec, 2022 Sophia Hussain to Join AK Press We're so sad to bid farewell to Sophia Hussain but excited for her future endeavors at AK Press! Read more
05 Dec, 2022 Congratulating Our Fall 2022 Graduates Congratulations to our Fall 2022 graduates, Rachel Chen, Amanda Barnett, Salih Berk Dincer, Jessica Kim, Yushu Kong, Hin Kwan Kwok, Choyang Ponsar, and Darice Wong! We are so excited to see their future successes. Read more
18 Nov, 2022 BCNM at 4S 2022 BCNM students, faculty, and alumni are all participating in this year's 4S program. Read more
09 Nov, 2022 BCNM at SHOT The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) encourages the study of the development of technology and its relations with society and culture. Read more
21 Oct, 2022 Playing with "Real Women" Our alum Bo Ruberg offers "A Sexual Prehistory of Realism in Video Games" on ROMchip, a journal of game histories. Read more
06 Oct, 2022 Announcing the Fall 2022 Conference Grant Recipients Congratulations to these amazing students working in the fields of geography, Indigenous languages, technology, computer history, archaeology and more! Read more
06 Oct, 2022 Apply for the AAPI Media Creatives Fellowship We are thrilled to launch the inaugural UC Berkeley Center for New Media AAPI Media Creatives Fellowship. Applications are due March 1, 2023. Read more
11 Sep, 2022 Summer Research Report: Amanda Barnett Read about Amanda's preparation for a Spring 2023 exhibit at Wing Luke Museum, Seattle’s Asian Pacific American history museum. 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
16 May, 2022 Congratulating Our Spring 2022 Undergraduate Certificate Recipients Project by Jessie Mindel with Selin Longmire, Angelica Song, Bradley Russo. Read more
01 Apr, 2022 Women in Energy Make a Powerful Case for Inclusion Camille Crittenden publishes an article on the Berkeley Blog on women in energy in honor of Women's History Month. Read more
11 Feb, 2022 BCNM Around the Web February 2022 Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this February! Read more
11 Feb, 2022 Hannah Zeavin in Continuum Innovation Hannah's book 'The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy' is featured in Continuum Innovation. Read more
12 Dec, 2021 Announcing Our 2021 Undergraduate Cohort Please join us in welcoming our 2021 Undergraduate Certificate cohort! Read more
14 Oct, 2021 Trevor Paglen on Time Sensitive BCNM alumni Trevor Paglen was interviewed by Spencer Bailey for the podcast Time Sensitive. Read more
27 Sep, 2021 Ken Goldberg's Ambi Robotics Raises $26 Million Professor Ken Goldberg's robotics startup, Ambi Robotics, has secured $26 million in funding. Read more
25 Sep, 2021 BCNM Around the Web September 2021 Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this September! Read more
19 Sep, 2021 Summer Research: Rashad Timmons on Slave Labor in Railway Construction Rashad Timmons received a Summer 2021 BCNM Research Grant. Read about his important archival work investigating the role slave labor had in building mid to late 19th century railways. Read more
29 Jul, 2021 Camille Crittenden: Keep Public Meetings Open Through Technology Camille published this important call to California to keep public meetings open with the technologies we've used during the pandemic. Read more
04 Jun, 2021 Ken Goldberg on AmbiRobotics on the Robot Report BCNM's Ken Goldberg features on The Robot Report Podcast to give the inside scoop on robotics and automation and intelligent systems at Ambi Robotics. Read more
28 May, 2021 Camille Crittenden on Blockchain for the Public Good Camille Crittenden, Executive Director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, was recently featured in the All About Blockchain podcast, where she discussed the future social benefits of blockchain innovation. 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. Artwork by Tina Piracci Read more
01 Feb, 2021 Jen Schradie Publishes on COVID in France Jen Schradie recently published a paper on COVID-19 in France, titled "L'année de la Covid en France ou l'histoire d'un double confinement." Read more
29 Jan, 2021 BCNM Around the Web January 2021 Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this January! Read more
15 Dec, 2020 Review of Xiaowei Wang's Blockchain Chicken Farm in The Nation Xiaowei Wang's book Blockchain Chicken Farm was recently reviewed by The Nation. Read more
25 Nov, 2020 Spring 2021 BCNM Events Mark your calendars for this incredible line up of speakers! Read more
24 Nov, 2020 Grasping Research by Ken Goldberg Featured in DailyCal Jeffrey Ichnowski, Yahav Avigal, Vishal Satish, and Ken Goldberg published an important paper that could help companies create safer work environments. 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
24 Sep, 2020 Xiaowei Wang & An Xiao Mina on WeChat Xiaowei Wang and An Xiao Mina publish "WeChat Has Both Connected Families and Torn Them Apart" in Slate. Read more
18 Aug, 2020 BCNM Around the Web August 2020 Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this August! Read more
17 Jul, 2020 BCNM Around the Web July 2020 Check out the awesome presentations and features of our faculty, student, and alumni work across the web this past July! Read more
29 Apr, 2020 Congratulating Our 2020 Undergraduate Certificate Graduates Congratulations to our 2020 cohort, who are graduating with the New Media Undergraduate Certificate! Read more
13 Apr, 2020 Abigail De Kosnik Quoted on Fauci-Fandom BCNM Director Abigail De Kosnik is featured in an article in The Verge on the fandom around Dr. Anthony Fauci . Read more
07 Apr, 2020 Jane McGonigal on Stretching the Imagination in a Pandemic As the Coronavirus becomes more widespread she argues that we need to learn how to adapt quickly to global changes that will continue to disrupt our daily lives. Read more
24 Feb, 2020 Review of Jane McGonigal's Future Thinking Course Belgian newspaper De Tiljd reviews Jane McGonigal's "Futures Thinking Specialization" classes on Coursera. Read more
20 Feb, 2020 BCNM Around the Web February 2020 Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our faculty and alumni in February 2020! Read more
12 Feb, 2020 Ken Goldberg at CES 2020 Ken Goldberg was a part of the "Robots for Good" conference track at CES 2020. Read more
07 Jan, 2020 Trevor Paglen on Human Biases in AI Monocle Weekly published an interview with alum Trevor Paglen on our artificial intelligence systems. Read more
24 Dec, 2019 Trevor Paglen’s ImageNet Roulette ALum Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford created ImageNet Roulette, a new art piece that has stirred controversy and accolades across the globe. Read more
19 Nov, 2019 Announcing our 2019 Undergraduate Cohort We are thrilled to welcome to BCNM these talented students from across campus! Read more
05 Nov, 2019 We're Hiring an Events Coordinator! Join the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), an interdisciplinary research center that studies and shapes media transition and emergence from diverse perspectives. Through critical thinking and making, we cultivate technological equity and fairness in our classrooms, in our communities, and on the internet. Read more
24 Oct, 2019 Eric Paulos as IEEE IEMCON Keynote The IEEE Annual Information Technological Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference invites Eric Paulos as one of their keynote speakers. 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
17 Aug, 2019 Ken Goldberg Chief Scientist of Ambidextrous Robotics Ambidextrous Robotics builds on DexNet, the patent-pending Dexterity Network developed by Goldberg and Mahler. Read more
11 Aug, 2019 Interview with Koci Hernandez in ASMP The American Society of Media Photographers featured Koci Hernandez in "Questions with an Educator." Read more
05 Aug, 2019 Camille Crittenden in Brahms in Context Camille Crittenden contributed the chapter on "Vienna" to the book Brahms in Context. Read more
11 Jul, 2019 ATC 2018-2019 In Review Check out the highlights and videos from a stellar season, featuring luminaries such as Roxane Gay and Adam Savage! Read more
07 Jul, 2019 Interview with Alum Jen Schradie in the Indy and WUNC Jen discusses her book The Revolution That Wasn't in North Carolina, where much of her research was based. Read more
05 Jul, 2019 Ken Goldberg Interview in Robotics Business Review Working at the intersection of art, robotics, and social media, Ken shares his thoughts on making robots less clumsy when grabbing objects. Read more
13 Jun, 2019 Videos from 2019 DataEdge Now Available BCNM was thrilled to co-sponsor this School of Information conversation about the challenges and opportunities created by the rise of big data. Read more
03 Jun, 2019 Alum Christo Sims at the Business & Society Research Seminar If you're in Paris, join Christo Sims on June 13th for his talk on Disruptive Fixation! Read more
02 Jun, 2019 Will Payne on Critical GIS at AAG Will Payne presented "Crawling the City: Mobilizing Free Labor in the Spatial Data Economy" at the American Association of Geographer's 2019 Conference. Read more
09 May, 2019 Congratulating our 2019 Undergraduate Certificate Graduates These students invested in the new media landscape at Cal, and we're excited to see what new endeavours they undertake in their respective fields Read more
21 Mar, 2019 Ken Goldberg on Ethics in AI The New York Times hosted the New Work Summit. Read more about the recommendations Ken Goldberg and other experts made regarding the ethics of artificial intelligence. Read more
14 Mar, 2019 Announcing the Spring 2019 Conference Grant Recipients We're to our extraordinary 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
14 Mar, 2019 Nicholas de Monchaux on Space Suits of the Future in Pacific Standard The future of space suits and what it means for space exploration. Read more
23 Feb, 2019 Ken Goldberg in MIT Sloan Webinar on AI Ken Goldberg joins Ally MacDonald to discuss how AI and humans can work together. Read more
21 Feb, 2019 Jane McGonigal at Restaurant Innovation Summit Alum Jane McGonigal was the keynote speaker at the Restaurant Innovation Summit in November 2018. Read more
18 Feb, 2019 Ken Goldberg on Robots in Nature Machine Intelligence Ken Goldberg reflects on how four exciting sub-fields of robotics — co-robotics, human–robot interaction, deep, learning and cloud robotics — accelerate a renewed trend toward robots working safely and constructively with humans. Read more
21 Jan, 2019 Alum Jane McGonigal on Your Brain in Video Games Quartz published an article by Frank Lantz in which he explains our brains' relationships with gaming. Alum Jane McGonigal argues that it has positive effects. Read more
18 Dec, 2018 Abigail De Kosnik in Wired on Unofficial Recordings Abigail De Kosnik was mentioned in Wired's article about how unofficial recordings have flowered in the 21st century. Read more
03 Dec, 2018 Alum Trevor Paglen in Artes Mundi Paglen is one of five runner-ups for the Artes Mundi 8, the UK's largest contemporary art prize. Read more
21 Nov, 2018 Announcing our 2018 Undergraduate Cohort We are thrilled to welcome to the BCNM these talented students from across campus. Read more
07 Nov, 2018 Ken Goldberg in the NYT's "What Comes After the Roomba?" Ken Goldberg and his group at Berkeley are currently research and testing the capcities of robots that can - possibly - clean a whole house. Read more
31 Oct, 2018 Ken Goldberg in 5 Takeaways from TechCrunch Disrupt Ken Goldberg's conversation around bias in AI was one of the key takeaways from TechCrunch's Disrupt SF conference. Read more
15 Oct, 2018 Ken Goldberg Interview in Robotics Business Review Ken Goldberg was interviewed in the Robotics Business Review about robot grasping. Read more
01 Oct, 2018 Updated: Ken Goldberg at RoboBusiness 2018 BCNM faculty Ken Goldberg is the keynote speaker Day 2 of RoboBusiness 2018. Read more
01 Oct, 2018 Ken Goldberg and AI Study by Tata Communications in the Press Study from consulting firm Tata Communications on AI, co-authored by Ken Goldberg, covered in the press. Read more
24 Sep, 2018 Alum Trevor Paglen at the New York Met's Breuer Museum BCNM alum Trevor Paglen's work in "Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy" is on exhibit at the New York Met's Breuer Museum. Read more
26 Jul, 2018 Ken Goldberg on ABC News on Robots as the Future of AI "Why is Facebook keen on robots? It's just the future of AI," writes Ryan Nakashima. Read more
14 Jun, 2018 Jacob Gaboury Quoted in The International Business Times on Virtual Plotting Jacob Gaboury weighs in on movies that are adjusted to the brain waves of viewers. Read more
30 May, 2018 We're Hiring! - Office Manager & Events Coordinator Wanted! The Berkeley Center for New Media and Arts Research Center are hiring an Office Manager and Events Coordinator to maintain and develop their programs. Read more
08 May, 2018 Alum Trevor Paglen in ScotiaBank Contact Photography Exhibition The annual May festival celebrates the work of both local and international artists and photographers in the CONTACT gallery. Read more
18 Apr, 2018 Richard Koci Hernandez Named Bloomberg Chair Richard Koci Hernandez, an award-winning innovator in journalism and multimedia, has been named the Bloomberg Chair at the Graduate School of Journalism. Read more
16 Apr, 2018 New Ken Goldberg Dex-Net Video Online A video of Ken Goldberg's Dex-Net 4.0 is now online, featured in publications such as the MIT Technology Review and Mashable. Read more
13 Mar, 2018 Goldberg at Industry of Things World USA 2018 Ken Goldberg gave the opening keynote at IoT World USA Conference! Read more
30 Jan, 2018 Ken Goldberg at the Culture of the Future in Moscow Ken Goldberg participated in arts 'laboratory' at NCCA, Moscow Read more
28 Nov, 2017 Welcome to our 2017 Undergraduate Cohort From sports and cultural data analytics to art and technology performances, from design to the philosophies around technology, these students are excited to dive into New Media on campus. Read more
02 Nov, 2017 Michelle Carney and other MIMS Students Win AR Hackathon! Michelle Carney, Michelle Chen, Connor Hunihan, Daphne Jong and Ching-yi Lin won CitizenAR hackathon with an application for the Tenderloin community to interact and connect through an AR game design. Read more
22 Oct, 2017 Revisited: Frank Foer, "World Without Mind" Revisiting Frank Foer's ATC speaker event about his new book, World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech. Read more
17 Oct, 2017 Greg Niemeyer in Open Codes Exhibition at ZKM Greg Niemeyer's work is being exhibited at ZKM in their Open Codes exhibit from October 20th 2017 to August 8th 2018. Read more
10 Oct, 2017 Alum Christo Sims on Disruptive Fixation on KPFA and Databite Christo Sims, author of Disruptive Fixation and a Berkeley alum, presents on school reform and techno-fetishism. Read more
03 Oct, 2017 Ken Goldberg Quoted in NYT on Warehouse Robots UC Berkeley professor Ken Goldberg is featured in a NYT article regarding his lab's phenomenal robotic work. Read more
19 Sep, 2017 Summer Research Dispatch: Molly Nicholas & Wearable Tech in Hospitals Read about Molly Nicholas' BCNM-funded research on wearable tech for therapeutic clowning, in collaboration with the Medical Clown Project. Read more
18 Sep, 2017 UC Berkeley Team Selected To Design Adaptive Responses To Bay Area Climate Change A diverse group of locally-based and globally-experienced professionals, academics, students, and policy makers from the University of California, Berkeley has been chosen to participate in the Resilient By Design (RBD) Bay Area Challenge. Read more
16 Aug, 2017 Ken Goldberg Joins the Board of Robo Global The organization that defined the very first benchmark index for the robotics and automation market welcomes Goldberg to their team Read more
25 May, 2017 Ken Goldberg Featured in Robotics Business Review Ken Goldberg featured in "Cloud Robotics Promises to Simplify Machine Tending" in Robotics Business Review Read more
17 May, 2017 Announcing Our 2017 Undergraduate Certificate Grads These students have made extensive contributions to New Media at Cal Read more
16 May, 2017 Announcing Our 2017 Graduates We look forward to sharing their future endeavors! Read more
07 Mar, 2017 Revisited: "Ripped Off? Pirate Technologies, Jugaad Politics, and Postcolonial Modernities" An amazing talk by Kavita Philip Read more
28 Feb, 2017 Announcing the 2017 Eugene Jarvis Innovation Scholarship Recipient The generous Eugene Jarvis Media Innovation Scholarship was awarded to this forward-thinking student. Read more
19 Jan, 2017 Ken Goldberg featured in Fast Company The BCNM professor and his research in Dex-Net was recently featured in the article "Why It's so Hard for Robots to Get a Grip" Read more
22 Nov, 2016 Announcing our 2016 Undergraduate Cohort These students highlight the interdisciplinary nature of new media through the range of disciplines they represent and the exciting collaborative projects in which they are engage Read more
04 Nov, 2016 Grace Gipson at >Play Conference >play is the largest student-run digital media and technology conference Read more
01 Sep, 2016 Announcing Jane Jacobs and the Digital City Symposium This event is a partnership between BCNM and the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) Read more
25 Aug, 2016 Summer Research Report: Will Payne on Location-Based Services Will Payne received a summer research award from the BCNM to support his dissertation research on location based services Read more
05 Jul, 2016 Cultural Committee of the Danish Parliament Visits BCNM The Berkeley Center for New Media was delighted to host the Cultural Committee from the Danish Parliament on June 28, 2016 Read more
26 May, 2016 Meet Lark Buckingham: Critical Design Animator, filmmaker, performance artist, designer, tinkerer, activist, and data scientist, Lark Buckingham is a versatile and multidisciplinary provocateur. Read more
19 May, 2016 Announcing Our 2016 Undergraduate Certificate Grads We're so pleased to be able to share their achievements and wish them the best in their future projects! Read more
19 May, 2016 Announcing our 2016 Graduates Congrats to all! We lookforward to following their success in their new endeavors! Read more
17 May, 2016 Motherhood and Raspberry Pi: Challenges for Mothers in Technology The lack of gender diversity in technology fields has become a hot topic of late, for good reason Read more
09 May, 2016 Interactive Urban Lighting Recommended for NEA UC Berkeley’s Center for New Media - one of 64 National Endowment for the Arts Our Town projects selected nationwide Read more
07 Apr, 2016 Announcing 2016 Summer Research Awards We are thrilled by the ambitious and innovative work these students are all completing Read more
01 Dec, 2015 New Undergraduates Announcement! Congratulations to our latest new media undergraduate certificate candidates! Read more
04 Nov, 2015 Meet John Scott Scott explores online learning environments to increase geographic and cultural connections and build diverse communities Read more
01 Jul, 2015 Aclima Out of Stealth Aclima designs and deploys environmental sensor networks. Read more
29 Apr, 2015 Announcing our Spring 2015 Graduating Class We'll miss their energy and their intellectual curiosity around BCNM, but wish them all the best in their new endeavors and look forward to the amazing intellectual, artistic, and technological contributions we know they will produce Read more
17 Feb, 2015 Revisited: BEARS 2015 The 2015 Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium hosted a BCNM open house last Thursday on February 12. Read more
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
10 Feb, 2015 Lark Buckingham Lark Buckingham is the creator of Babump, a device posing as a business card holder that monitors heart rates Read more
18 Nov, 2014 ATC Revisited: Rick Lowe We recap this ATC lecture on planning for urban housing by community organizer Rick Lowe Read more
12 Jun, 2014 Invention Lab Video This amazing campus resource is co-directed by BCNM faculty members Read more
15 Apr, 2014 Robots and New Media: A Contested Concept A packed house greeted the first panelists for the Berkeley Center for New Media’s Robots and New Media Symposium on April 4, 2014 Read more
01 Apr, 2014 Technology Services and Training Fellowship This year, thanks to the craigslist Chair endowment, we were able to support five graduates with awards of $1,000 to help defray technology and training costs. Read more
26 Mar, 2014 Presenting the Robots and New Media Symposium The Kingdom of the Netherlands and UC BCNM highlight the next phase in the evolution of robotics with the “Robots and New Media Symposium” on April 4 Read more
28 Aug, 2013 New Collaborative Application Design Class! This course is offered with the support of CITRIS and the Educational Partnerships Office at UCOP Read more
13 Aug, 2013 Google More: Where FERPA and CPHS conflict with EULA UC Berkeley just completed the transition of all of its email from a proprietary system to gmail. Faculty shares their thoughts. Read more
07 May, 2013 New Media Research Group: Sam Ford "Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture"
14 Nov, 2012 Tablets, Africa's Next Leap-Frog Technology by Reginold Royston, Ph.D. candidate in the African Diaspora Program with a Designated Emphasis in New Media Read more
10 Oct, 2012 International Day of the Girl and the Ongoing Need for More Girls in STEM Fields CITRIS Data and Democracy Initiative Director, Camille Crittenden wrote for the Huffington Post on Tuesday to advocate for continued efforts to bring girls into STEM fields Read more
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Offered Summer Session D, 2025 How to Build a Global Internet: Digital Infrastructure Projects from Subsea Cables to Data Centers
