08 Apr, 2024
Commons Conversations
Computing the News: Data Journalism and the Search for Objectivity
with Sylvain Parasie
Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po (Paris) and Director of Sciences Po's Media Lab
A Commons Conversation Read more
26 Feb, 2020
Special Events
The Revolution That Wasn’t: How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives
with Jen Schradie
Assistant Professor, Observatoire Sociologique du Changement (OSC) at Sciences Po
Co-Sponsored by CITRIS and the Banatao Institute Read more
09 May, 2019
Special Events
Critical Making 2019 Showcase
Check out the incredible projects from NWMEDIA C203, featured in the Jacobs Spring Design Showcase! Read more
14 Mar, 2019
Special Events
Affective Publics: News Storytelling, Sentiment and Technology
with Zizi Papacharissi
Professor and Chair, Department of Communication, University of Illinois-Chicago
Presented by TDPS Graduate Students, co-sponsored by BCNM Read more
19 Oct, 2018
Special Events
Hacking Politics: Symposium
Join us to explore how our political system has been — and might be — “hacked” in ways its framers could never have imagined. Read more
16 Apr, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
with Angela Davis
Activist and Professor, CA
interviewed by Leigh Raiford, Assoc. Professor of African American Studies and Malika Imhotep, PhD Candidate in African American Studies and Designated Emphasis in New Media
A 2018 Regents Lecture
Read more
13 Apr, 2017
History & Theory
Technology and Forensic Evidence: Chilean Human Rights Investigations
with Eden Medina
Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing, Affiliated Associate Professor of Law, and Adjunct Associate Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington Read more
27 Sep, 2016
Special Events
Jane Jacobs and the Digital City
in partnership with SPUR San Francisco Read more
13 Sep, 2016
Special Events
Undergraduate Certificate in New Media Information Session
Find out more about the Certificate in New Media for undergraduates at Cal! Read more
14 Sep, 2015
Special Events
Undergraduate Certificate in New Media Information Session
Find out more about the Certificate in New Media for undergraduates at Cal! Read more
03 Sep, 2015
Special Events
Welcome Back! BCNM's Fall Open House
Celebrate the new semester with us, here at BCNM Read more
08 Apr, 2015
Special Events
Design for All: Inclusivity By Design
with Pattie Moore, Designer and Gerontologist
Read more
08 Apr, 2015
Workshops
Lunch with Product Design Pioneer Patricia Moore
A special opportunity for BCNM students and faculty to discuss inclusive design and share projects Read more
06 Mar, 2014
Special Events
We invite you to this symposium of discussions on privacy protections, surveillance methods, and resistance in our digital world Read more
17 Mar, 2013
Special Events
Learning Mode: College Readiness Hackathon
Develop a New Media app to make the college application process less harrowing in this CITRIS-sponsored Hackathon! Read more
14 Mar, 2013
Special Events
Learning Mode: Critical Issues in Online Education
Participate in this 2-day symposium on critical issues in online higher education. Google, CMU, Coursera representatives are slotted to speak. Note: tickets for this event have been claimed but sign up for the wait-list here! Read more
10 Dec, 2012
Special Events
We Witness: A Panel on Digital Video, Social Media, and Political Protest
A panel of leading video activists, filmmakers, + technology developers on the implications for human rights investigations, advocacy campaigns, and social justice Read more
13 Nov, 2012
Special Events
Anthropology as BIG DATA: Making the Case for Ethnography as a Critical Dimension in Digital Media and Technology Studies
Mary Gray, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and Associate Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University, on big data in human comunication research Read more
30 Oct, 2012
Special Events
Ephemeral Space: Networks of Social Media & Mobile Food Vending Practices
with Ginette Wessel, PhD Candidate of Architecture, on mobile food vendors and social media Read more
16 Oct, 2012
Workshops
New Media Research Workshop, “Getting Down and Dirty with Facebook Research”
Lindsay Bayham (Sociology) will share experiences of Facebook data collection with youth in Ghana Read more
01 Oct, 2012
Art, Tech & Culture
Visualization and the Joy of Revelation
with Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg, artists and lead researchers of Google's Big Picture" visualization research group Read more
01 Oct, 2012
Special Events
Tweeting Your Way to the White House: Social Media and the 2012 Campaign
Do new technologies help us talk across party lines, or do they contribute to more polarization? A panel of a professor, company founder, and president of a social media company discuss. Read more
26 Apr, 2012
Special Events
Swinging and Flowing: Inclusion and Diversity in the Age of Data
A symposium pondering the emerging hierarchies of an increasingly "data-driven" world," hosted right here at UC Berkeley Read more
25 Apr, 2011
Special Events
Advancing the New Machine, Human Rights and Technology Conference
A symposium for anyone interested in uniting the tech-world and the human rights community Read more
3 days ago
Video now online! Commons Conversations - 'Computing the News: Data Journalism and the Search for Objectivity’ with Sylvain Parasie
Missed the talk with Sylvain Parasie? The video is now uploaded to Youtube! Read more
22 Mar, 2024
danah boyd in conversation on tech & society
08 Jun, 2023
Jill Miller & Asma Kazmi Receive C/Change Grant
Read more
03 Feb, 2023
Jen Schradie on a Bottom Up Approach to Disinformation Research
Digital disinformation is changing society, but the societal 3 C's (class, community, and context) are changing disinformation, too. Read more
18 Nov, 2022
BCNM students, faculty, and alumni are all participating in this year's 4S program. Read more
18 Nov, 2022
Web3 & Digital Democracy with Jen Schradie
McCourt Institute's “Web3 &” series continues, taking a specific look at digital democracy. The second event in the series will address the state of digital democracy in our current and future web paradigms, featuring alum Jen Schradie. 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
13 Oct, 2022
The Digital Production Gap in the Algorithmic Era
Our alum Jen Schradie published this as chapter 28 in Part V Social Inequalities in the Digital Landscape of The Oxford Handbook of Digital Media Sociology. Read more
10 Sep, 2022
Hannah Zeavin Reviews Lauren Berlant's New Book
Berlant’s new book, On the Inconvenience of Other People, serves as a sequel of sorts to Cruel Optimism, the work that guaranteed Berlant’s fame beyond the academy. Read more
14 May, 2022
The Illusion of Digital Democracy with Jen Schradie
In this short teaser for her book, The Revolution That Wasn't, Jen Schradie asks whether the internet is conservative. Read more
29 Apr, 2022
Epistemic Disconnects Surrounding the US Census Bureau’s Use of Differential Privacy
Our alum danah boyd published an article in the Harvard Data Science Review with Jayshree Sarathy.
Read more
18 Apr, 2022
Jen Schradie on the French Presidential Election
Interview with researcher Jen Schradie. Read more
13 Apr, 2022
Behind French election tweets, the far right is hidden in plain sight
Jen Schradie explains how digital democracy is functioning in France this election cycle for the Conversation. Read more
02 Feb, 2022
Clement Hil Goldberg Receives Creative Capital Award
Congratulations to Clement Hil Goldberg's 'Let Me Let You Go' for receiving the Creative Capital Award which supports artists who are pushing boundaries and asking challenging questions! Read more
27 Jan, 2022
Jen Schradie on the Shadow of January 6th
Jen Schradie joins The Debate on France 24 to talk about the impact a year later of the Capitol insurrection. Read more
27 Jan, 2022
Xiaowei Wang on Blockchain Chicken Farm at the Minderoo Center
Xiaowei explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China in this event with the Minderoo Center for Technology and Democracy. Read more
01 Aug, 2021
Jen Schradie on the Digital Production Gap in the Algorithmic Era
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
10 Jun, 2021
danah boyd on Knitting a Healthy Social Fabric
danah boyd recently published an article discussing creating or knitting a healthy social fabric that relies on real connections. Read more
03 Apr, 2021
danah boyd on Democracy's Data Infrastructure
BCNM alum and media academic danah boyd co-authored an essay with Dan Bouk for the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University titled, "Democracy's Data Infrastructure." Read more
04 Feb, 2021
Jen Schradie on France 24 on Regulating Big Tech
Jen Schradie recently appeared on France 24 to discuss regulating Big Tech companies. Read more
02 Dec, 2020
danah boyd on Philanthropy's Techno-Solutionism Problem
danah boyd recently wrote a paper titled "Philanthropy’s Techno-Solutionism Problem" for the Knight Foundation. Read more
12 Oct, 2020
Jen Schradie on the Race to the Bottom
Jen Schradie weighs in on France 24, discussing the first U.S presidential debate between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Read more
29 Jul, 2020
Fall 2020 Applications for Designated Emphasis and Certificate in New Media Now Open
Read more
24 Jun, 2020
danah boyd on Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship
The Commission's final report was recently released, recommending ways to "help the nation emerge as a more resilient democracy by 2026." Read more
25 Apr, 2020
Video of Jen Schradie in Le numérique : amplificateur des inégalités et des extrémismes ?
Watch Jen Schradie speak about digital technologies and their potential threats during a round table discussion at Sciences Po in April 2019. Read more
05 Mar, 2020
Jen Schradie Interviewed for "The Data Driving Democracy"
Jen Schradie was recently interviewed in "The Data Driving Democracy," a research paper by Christina Couch. 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
03 Feb, 2020
danah boyd on Privacy in the 2020 Census
danah boyd investigates the US Census Bureau's approach to "differential privacy" and its implications for data products. Read more
04 Dec, 2019
Alum Jen Schradie on WashingTech on Social Media Bias
Schradie recently went on the WashingTech Policy Podcast with Joe Miller to talk about her experience with "social media bias". Read more
27 Nov, 2019
Spring 2020 Applications for Designated Emphasis and Certificate in New Media Now Open
Read more
15 Aug, 2019
Jen Schradie's The Revolution That Wasn't Featured in the Washington Monthly
Richard John's article "Why the Left Is Losing the Information Age" showcases Schradie's research on digital activism and inequality. Read more
12 Aug, 2019
BCNM Faculty, Students, Staff Advise on and Support Proposed Legislation on Digital Media Literacy
Senator Klobuchar has introduced Digital Media Literacy legislation at the 116th Congress, with support from several BCNM faculty, students, and staff.
Read more
16 Jul, 2019
Jen Schradie on The Debate
Alum Jen Schradie spoke on France 24 on whether Democrats can mobilize their base for 2020. Read more
08 Jul, 2019
Fall 2019 Applications for Designated Emphasis and Certificate in New Media Now Open
Read more
04 Jul, 2019
Jen Schradie's The Revolution that Wasn't in Wired
Jen Schradie's The Revolution That Wasn't is featured in Wired's "14 Must-Read Books of the Summer." Read more
19 Jun, 2019
Alum Jen Schradie at OECD 2019 Forum
Jen's panel focused on People-Power vs. Populism. Read more
27 May, 2019
Ken Goldberg Co-Chairing AI & Inclusivity Signature Initiative
The Initiative seeks to work on systems for AI that integrate data, algorithms, context, and human values. Read more
15 Apr, 2019
HTNM Revisited: Safiya Noble
Photo by Adriel Olmos. Read more
12 Feb, 2019
Critical Making at UBI Comp
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
29 Jan, 2019
Spring 2019 Applications for the Designated Emphasis and Certificate in New Media Now Open
Applications are open to admitted graduated students at UC Berkeley and are due March 1, 2019. Read more
25 Jan, 2019
Jen Schradie on Digital Activism on LSE US Centre
Jen Schradie published her findings on the class and race gap in the digital democracy for the LSE US Centre. Read more
04 Dec, 2018
Announcing our Summer 2019 Courses
This summer, learn how to critically analyze and help shape developments in new media. Read more
26 Nov, 2018
Jen Schradie on Data & Democracy at Sciences Po
The Data & Democracy conference in Paris invited Jen Schradie as one of their panelists. Read more
05 Nov, 2018
Alum Jane McGonigal Creates Ethical Toolkit
Jane McGonigal developed a toolkit to help keep many large Silicon Valley tech companies, as well as start-ups, keep their priorities and ethics in check. Read more
30 Aug, 2018
Alum Jen Schradie Appointed as Asst Professor at the Sciences Po
BCNM Alum Jen Schradie was appointed an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) Read more
28 Jun, 2018
Fall 2018 Applications for Designated Emphasis and Certificates in New Media Now Open
Applications are open to admitted graduated students at UC Berkeley and are due November 1, 2018. Read more
26 Jun, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen Contributing to For Freedoms Billboard Project
Driving through Denver, CO? Look out for alum Trevor Paglen's billboard art for For Freedoms! Read more
23 Apr, 2018
Rita Lucarelli Receives CITRIS Seed Grant
Rita Lucarelli's project on Egyptian landscapes will be funded by the CITRIS seed grant program. Read more
02 Feb, 2018
BCNM Alum Jen Schradie gave a talk, "The Digital Activism Gap: Social Media, Social Movements and Social Class," at Cal! Read more
02 Nov, 2017
Alum Jen Schradie Published in Media and Class, Edited by June Deery
Jen Schradie received her PhD from Berkeley and recently published Media and Class: TV, Film, and Digital Culture, which can be bought on Amazon. Read more
27 Oct, 2017
The news reports on Reply All, a campus-wide symposium by the Berkeley Center of New Media, The Berkeley Graduate, the Graduate Assembly, and BridgeUSA on the 53rd anniversary of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement. Read more
05 Sep, 2017
The 2017-2018 Critical Theory Working Group: Collaborations, Co-operatives, Coalition Building
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07 Jun, 2017
Justin Berner at the NYU-Columbia Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Conference
Justin Berner presented paper "Waking up to a World in Color" for Happiness Conference at NYU. Read more
21 Mar, 2017
Announcing the Spring 2017 BCNM Conference Grant Recipients!
Read more
17 Feb, 2017
Jenni Higgs at Writing Research Across Borders IV in Colombia
03 Feb, 2017
Engaged Courses: Critical Making Designs Protest Object
Eric Paulos challenged his Critical Making class (NWMEDIA 203) to create and present a novel protest object. 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
01 Sep, 2016
Applications for Designated Emphasis and Certificates in New Media Now Open!
All applications for Spring 2017 admittance are due November 1, 2016 Read more
18 Jul, 2016
Caitlin Marshall receives Postdoc Fellowship
Marshall will be headed to the University of Maryland Read more
24 Jun, 2016
California Report Card Featured in The Promise of Berkeley
The California Report Card was developed by BCNM Professor Ken Goldberg and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom Read more
04 Nov, 2015
Scott explores online learning environments to increase geographic and cultural connections and build diverse communities Read more
08 Oct, 2015
BCNM's Recommended Spring 16 Courses Now Out!
Check out the highlights of new media courses on offer this Spring 2016! And here are a few we're proud to be offering. Read more
14 May, 2015
Video Now Online: Jesse and Glenda Drew
Watch this amazing ATC lecture on activism and technology, right here! Read more
29 Apr, 2015
México Participa Launched
México Participa is an innovative civic engagement platform based on the model of the California Report Card Read more
06 Oct, 2014
HTNM Revisited: Jennifer Holt
UCSB's Film and Media Studies Associate Professor sat down with us earlier this month. Read highlights here. Read more
02 Sep, 2014
Announcing the 2014-2015 Arts, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
Berkeley's Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium is an internationally recognized forum for presenting new ideas that challenge conventional wisdom about art, technology, and culture Read more
19 May, 2014
Cyberphysical Democracy: Online Platforms and Offline Action
Follow Camille Crittenden on Twitter: www.twitter.com/data_democracy Read more
01 May, 2014
Jen Schradie has never been afraid to confront the societal inequality she witnesses 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
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
17 Sep, 2013
BCNM Accepting Designated Emphasis and Masters Certificate Applications!
05 Sep, 2013
Announcing the Fall 2013 – Spring 2014 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Lecture Series
Visit the ATC Colloquium’s home page at atc.berkeley.edu for directions, a list of speakers, and to join the mailing list Read more
04 Sep, 2013
BCNM Faculty Camille Crittenden Featured on the PBS Idea Lab
Crittenden recently published a blog post entitled "Public Open Data: the Good, the Bad, the Future" Read more
07 May, 2013
New Media Research Group: Sam Ford "Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture"
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
03 Apr, 2013
Summer 2013 Course Offerings in New Media - Digital Activism, NWMEDIA 150AC
Session A, May 28 - July 3, 2013 Read more
03 Apr, 2013
Learning Mode Conference Recap & Highlight Video
Symposium speakers shared their diverse experiences with online education and examined the conditions, opportunities, and tensions pertaining to learning online Read more
19 Mar, 2013
Announcing the 2013 Peter Lyman Fellow, T. Geronimo Johnson
For his abstract on “New Media Literacy, Aesthetic Education, and Ambiguity in the Age of Irony” Read more
27 Feb, 2013
BCNM Student Presentations for the annual BEARS Research Symposium, February 14, 2013
Exciting and innovative new UC Berkeley research projects weree presented at the Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium (BEARS). Read some of our students' research here! Read more
20 Feb, 2013
Learning Mode: College Ready Hackathon
Wi-Fi and cloud-storage will be provided. Hackers should bring their own computers. Open to all! Read more
06 Feb, 2013
Learning Mode: Critical Issues in Online Education
*Update: online registration is now full, however please feel free to register for the wait list Read more
12 Dec, 2012
Human Rights Day: How Social Video Changes the Game for Advocacy and Accountability
To commemorate Human Rights Day on December 10, Camille Crittenden, the executive director of CITRIS's Data and Democracy Initiative, wrote an article in the Huffington Post 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
01 Oct, 2012
Spring 2013: Eric Paulos Teaches "Critical Making: Materials, Protocols, and Culture"
Critical Making will operationalize and critique the practice of “making” through both foundational literature and hands on studio culture Read more
26 Sep, 2012
Data & Democracy Initiative - Prop 30 Awareness
The UC Berkeley CITRIS Data and Democracy Initiative has launched a social media experiment related to CA Proposition 30. It's open now and we welcome you to participate Read more
05 Sep, 2012
Announcing the Fall 2012 - Spring 2013 Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium Lecture Series
Mondays, 7:30-9:00 pm. ATC lectures are free and open to the public! Read more
19 Jun, 2012
BCNM Student Awarded NSF Grant for Research on Digital Democracy and Social Movements
The Sociology Program of the NSF awards grants that have "theoretically focused empirical investigation aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social processes" Read more
12 Sep, 2011
Turning Data into Democratic Action: Social Apps Lab at CITRIS
15 Jun, 2011
CITRIS Launches Data and Democracy Initiative
Read more
15 Jun, 2011
The Digital Production Gap: The Digital Divide and Web 2.0 Collide
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This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
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