Unsolvable Puzzles: Anna Shechtman on the Feminist Psychology Behind Crosswords Read more

Check out our faculty and alumni around the web this Spring, 2024! Read more

Alice Notley, The Art of Poetry No. 116 Interviewed by Hannah Zeavin Read more

Alum Edgar Fabián Frías talks to Sarah M. Chappell in The Think Piece podcast. Read more

IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WISH. Read more

Celeste Kidd's lab received a BCNM Faculty Seed Grant for "Truth, lies, and misinformation during cognitive development." Read more about the results of the project! Read more

Alex spoke about AI and Research Innovation Across Disciplines! Read more

Summer research from Julia Irwin on "Patterning Recognition: A History of Artificial Perception." Read more

Emily Wells is interested in what her doctors see when they look at her: a depressed or anxious woman, perhaps even one who is faking sickness for attention. Read more

Read about Dongho Shin's project to develop digital systems capable of generating mnemonics—strategies that enhance memory retention, such as creating wordplay, narratives, and visuals. Read more

Givenchy Beauty collaborates with three digital artists to each create a digital art piece on the metaverse platform. Read more

Celeste Kidd and co-author Abeba Birhane have a new article in Science on how models can convey biases and false information to users! Read more

We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022-2023!  Read more

We wish them well in their future pursuits! Congratulations Annie, Omeed, Silayan, and Sirui (Skylar)! Read more

We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Eric Rawn presented my paper “Understanding Version Control as Material Interaction with Quickpose” at the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) CHI (Conference on Computer-Human Interaction) in Hamburg, Germany Read more

Why are babies small and grownups big? Why are babies so helpless, instead of little versions of adults? Do babies know they're babies? How do babies grow? How do babies learn to talk? Read more

Check out the amazing work from BCNM faculty, students, and alumni at the ACM Computer-Human Interaction Conference of 2023! Read more

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

Hannah Zeavin talks with Alex Colston about navigating Rieff, Freud, and the conservative underbelly of psychoanalysis. . Read more

Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this December! Read more

Hannah writes about the fate of the children of psychoanalysis for Parapraxis. Read more

A print magazine devoted to psychoanalysis called Parapraxis. Parapraxis aims to provide a home for psychoanalytic writing and creativity, addressed to the public. Read more

Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this November! Read more

Molly Nicholas and team received a Best Paper Award for "Creative and Motivational Strategies Used by Expert Creative Practitioners." Read more

We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022!  Read more

As every day we hear new reports of laws limiting LGBTQ+ rights, UC Berkeley professors weigh in on the current experience of our LGBTQ+ community. Read more

In Imaginable, Jane McGonigal draws on the latest scientific research in psychology and neuroscience to show us how to train our minds to think the unthinkable and imagine the unimaginable. Read more

Helplessness isn't learned — it's an instinctual response that can be overcome. Read more

Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this past December 2021! Read more

BCNM is pleased to announce the recipients of the Fall 2022 Faculty Seed Grants! Read more

Grace Gipson published an article on Southern hip hop in the Black Perspectives blog.   Read more

Celeste Kidd talked on a Rethinking Economics panel about the governance, ethics, and bias of AI and other similar technologies.  Read more

UC Berkeley Assistant Professor of Psychology Celeste Kidd was featured on the Under the Cortex podcast to discuss her research as a winner of the Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions.  Read more

Celeste Kidd speaks at AI Debate 2 "Moving AI Forward: An Interdisciplinary Approach". Read more

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

How do babies learn to talk? Do babies know they're babies? Celeste Kidd answers these questions in VPR's new podcast episode! Read more

Celeste Kidd received a Seed Grant to examine "The role of reasoning and metacognition during belief formation in the internet era". Read more

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

Bryan mapped a genealogy of knowledge which formed the foundation for the development of computerized human emotion recognition algorithms. Read more

BCNM Director Abigail De Kosnik is featured in an article in The Verge on the fandom around Dr. Anthony Fauci . Read more

Each year, the Berkeley Center for New Media pairs undergraduates with a graduate student mentor, offering them the chance to complete real, graduate level research while at Cal. We are thrilled to announce this year's Fellows. Read more

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

Celeste Kidd received a 2019 BCNM Faculty Seed Grant for "The Role of Reasoning and Metacognition During Belief Formation in the Internet Era." Read more

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

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

This February 15th and 16th, this workship will by held in the University of California, San Diego.  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

The article is titled: "De-instrumentalizing HCI: Social Psychology, Rapport Formation, and Interactions with Artificial Social Agents" Read more

We are proud to welcome an amazing set of graduates from across campus to the Berkeley Center for New Media. Read more

We are sad to hear of the passing of philosopher Hubert Dreyfus. Read more

with Jan De Vos Read more

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

A day-long seminar on "Philosophy of the Web," hosted by Google on their campus Read more

On the quantity and temporality of fannish productivity in online fan fiction archives"  Read more

Sponsored by the game designer, Eugene Jarvis Read more

Bates’ discourse drew from the post-WWII linking of human thought processes with that of artificial intelligence Read more

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

We are delighted to welcome eleven new graduate students to our Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate programs! Read more