We are excited to announce our recommended New Media courses for Summer 2025! Whether you're drawn to sound design, tech geopolitics, feminist media studies, or animation, these courses will inspire creativity, critical thinking, and hands-on learning in the ever-evolving landscape of new media. Read more

We're excited to offer small grants to further support our faculty in their new media classes. Read more

Congratulations Alex Saum-Pascual, Asma Kazmi, and Jill Miller! Read more

She features on Gwyneth Paltrow's podcast The Goop. Read more

Listen to the TED interviews podcast of alum Jane McGonigal sharing how to predict the future. Read more

Paul Darvasi interviews alum Jane McGonigal on "Harnessing the power of future-forecasting to help invent a better world." Read more

Abigail was mentored by Haripriya Sathyanarayanan on of immersive virtual environments. Read more

Alum Jane McGonigal features on Steve Levitt's popular podcast. Read more

Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this April 2022!

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Alum Jane McGonigal's “Imaginable” is reviewed in the Datebook. Read more

'Imaginable' is the most important book you’ll read this year! Read more

Alum Bo Ruberg chats about queer gaming with designers Jess Marcotte and Dietrich Squinkifer. Read more

Natalia Zuluaga in conversation with Alenda Y. Chang and Jason Edward Lewis on Shift Space 2.0. Read more

Jane McGonigal's latest book Imaginable was reviewed by Shira Abramovich on Reboot.  Read more

Daniella Gáti reviews Bo's book for Information and Culture Read more

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

BCNM alum Jane McGonigal was recently featured on the 3 Books podcast, where she discussed how she designs games to help people develop resilience and positive attitudes in the face of life's challenges.  Read more

Bo Ruberg & Rainforest Scully-Blaker publish Making players care: The ambivalent cultural politics of care and video games in the International Journal of Cultural Studies! Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this June! Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web in May! Read more

BCNM alum Jane McGonigal is instructing a Coursera course on handling life after Covid-19 through the Institute for the Future.  Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this April! Read more

The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to Emily Xia Que. Read more

Check out the amazing work of our alumni around the web this March! Read more

Bo Ruberg is a guest on the sixth episode of public lecture series "Critical Perspectives on Technology." Read more

Jane McGonigal shares her story and experience on Because Games Matter. Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this January! Read more

Bo Ruberg leads a conversation with fellow designers Jess Marcotte and Dietrich Squinkifer to talk about queer game design and the thought processes behind it. Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this August! Read more

Alum Jane McGonigal's work is featured for how to save the world with games. Read more

"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

Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni in May 2020! Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni in April 2020! Read more

BCNM Alum Bo Ruberg published an article in Communication, Culture and Critique. Read more

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

Belgian newspaper De Tiljd reviews Jane McGonigal's "Futures Thinking Specialization" classes on Coursera. Read more

Alum Alenda Chang's book Playing Nature was reviewed in Science. Read more

Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our faculty and alumni in February 2020! Read more

The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by eight BCNM students, faculty and alumni! Read more

McGonigal's smartphone app on wellness SuperBetter was just featured on BuiltIn. Read more

Listen to alum Jane McGonigal discuss creating games that heal. Read more

Alum Jane McGonigal presents "Finding my own reflection" on this great podcast. Read more

Bo Ruberg contributed to an overview on the work in Feminist and Queer Game Studies for Oxford Bibliographies. Read more

Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our faculty, students, and alumni in January 2020! Read more

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

Ruberg presents "Necklines and ‘Naughty Bits’: Constructing and Regulating Bodies in Live Streaming Community Guidelines." Read more

Ken Goldberg at BrainBar, on home robots and the relationship between robots and retirement. Nicholas de Monchaux on the moon suit at the Santa Fe Institute. Alum Bo Ruberg's Video Games Have Always Been Queer in Real Life. Alum Jane McGonigal on the gamification of the warehouse. Alum Trevor Paglen on Our Privacy Mess and at Art Basel. Alum Jen Schradie at the Microworks Platform Conference. Read more

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

Two more publications have reviewed alum Bonnie Ruberg's Queer Game Studies. Read more

We are thrilled to welcome to the BCNM these talented students from across campus. Read more

Volume 70 of American Quarterly features pieces on the Digital Humanities, one work of which is written by BCNM alum Bonnie Ruberg. Read more

BCNM alum Chris Gates's paper "Trellis and Vine: Weaving Function and Fiction in Videogame Play" published in Arts. Read more

The Digital Games Research Association held their 2018 conference with the theme "The Game is the Message." Read more

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

Bonnie Ruberg and Chris Goetz, co-organizers and founders of the Queerness and Games Conference, collaborated on a published piece titled "In Practice: Queerness and Games." Read more

At the beginning of October, alum Bonnie Ruberg attended IndieCade in Downtown Los Angeles to speak about the relationship between games and politics. Read more

Alternate Reality Games at the Cusp of Digital Gameplay is a volume of scholarship on the state of alternate reality gaming. Read more

These students have made extensive contributions to New Media at Cal Read more

Sponsored by the game designer, Eugene Jarvis Read more

This summer, BCNM DE Bonnie Ruberg will be teaching New Media 150 AC – “Playing Race: Investigating American Racial Identities through Video Games,” which will fulfill the American Cultures requirement Read more

Every month, BCNM recognizes a Turing Test Tournament player with the highest leaderboard score and awards the designated UC Berkeley student organization with a $1000 prize Read more

We are excited to announce the launch of a new online chat game for UC Berkeley's incoming class of 2013, the Turing Test Tournament. Read more