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16 Mar, 2022 Special Events

Symposium on The Media Crease

with André Brock, Associate Professor of Media Studies, Georgia Tech

and Karen Tongson, Professor of English, Gender & Sexuality studies, and American Studies & Ethnicity, and Chair of the Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies, University of Southern California

Presented in partnership with the Color of New Media Working Group. Read more

18 Mar, 2019 Commons Conversations

Video Games Have Always Been Queer

with Bonnie Ruberg
University of California, Irvine Read more

24 Apr, 2018 Special Events

Mapping as Research

with Trevor Paglen
Artist, CA

in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson, Professor of Art, UC Berkeley

hosted by the Arts Research Center
co-sponsored by BCNM, BAMPFA and the Department of Geography Read more

24 Sep, 2015 Special Events

Networked Boredom: On the Desire for Connection

with Scott Richmond, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of English at Wayne State University Read more

03 Nov, 2023

Conference Grant Reports: Xinwei Zhuang at ACADIA

We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Xinwei Zhuang presented their paper on ""Encoding Urban Ecologies: Automated Building Archetype Generation through Self-Supervised Learning for Energy Modeling" at ACADIA.

01 Jun, 2023

Jacob Gaboury 2023 HCI History Award Winner

05 Oct, 2022

Queering Digital Culture

A great new course being offered by Emma Fraser this Spring 2023! Read more

21 Apr, 2021

Jacob Gaboury Promoted to Associate Professor

05 Mar, 2020

Announcing the Spring 2020 Conference Grant Recipients

Congratulations to these amazing students working on digital tools, ethnographic research, philosophical arguments, and more! Read more

27 Feb, 2020

Video Games Have Always Been Queer Reviewed in New Media & Society

BCNM alum Bonnie Ruberg's Video Games Have Always Been Queer was reviewed by Christopher Persaud of New Media & Society. Read more

17 Jan, 2020

Bo Ruberg in Oxford Bibliographies

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

11 Jul, 2019

Commons Conversations 2018-2019 In Review

Check out the highlights for this responsive series that delves into the impact of new media on our current political and public climate. Read more

20 Jun, 2019

Damon Young Promoted to Associate Professor!

15 Mar, 2019

Gail De Kosnik Co-Edits Special Issue of Transformative Works and Cultures Published

Co-edited with andré carrington, the issue's theme is "Fans of Color, Fandoms of Color." Read more

28 Feb, 2019

New Reviews of Queer Games Studies

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

25 Jan, 2019

Alum Bonnie Ruberg Publishes "Video Games Have Always Been Queer"

25 Jan, 2019

Special Issue: Queerness & Video Games Co-Edited by Alum Bonnie Ruberg

Bonnie Ruberg collaborates with Amanda Phillips on a special issue titled Not Gay as in Happy: Queer Resistance and Video Games. Read more

04 Aug, 2018

Jacob Gaboury Published in Women & Performance

Read "Becoming NULL: Queer relations in the excluded middle." Read more

28 May, 2018

Jacob Gaboury Published in The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities

Jacob Gaboury's "Critical Unmaking, or Queer Computation as a Radical Practice" was published in The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities. Read more

26 May, 2018

2018 BCNM Seed Grants: Jacob Gaboury and Queer Computing

Jacob Gaboury (Film & Media) received $5000 to examine the relationship between digital technologies and queer identity as part of our Faculty Seed Grant program. Read more

23 Apr, 2018

Announcing our 2018-2019 Faculty Seed Grant Recipients

03 Nov, 2017

Bonnie Ruberg Published in Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds

Alum Bonnie Ruberg has been published in the June 2017 issue of Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds. Read more

31 Oct, 2017

Review of Alum Edited Queer Games Studies in CSMC

BCNM alum Bonnie Ruberg's book, Queer Game Studies, was reviewed in the Critical Studies in Media Communication journal. Read more

23 May, 2016

BCNM Alumna Margaret Rhee in Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016

Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 pairs full-length scholarly essays with shorter pieces from scholarly blogs and conference presentations Read more

25 Feb, 2015

HTNM Revisited: Intermedia Dance

We revisit UCD Professor Elizabeth Freeman's lecture, "Sex in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Gerard & Kelly's Kisses" Read more

10 Dec, 2012

BCNM New Media Graduate Students Present Their Research

Their presentations spanned a wide range of study including street dance, machine learning and cyber-communication Read more

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Symposium on The Media Crease

Video Games Have Always Been Queer

Mapping as Research

Networked Boredom: On the Desire for Connection

Conference Grant Reports: Xinwei Zhuang at ACADIA

Jacob Gaboury 2023 HCI History Award Winner

Queering Digital Culture

Jacob Gaboury Promoted to Associate Professor

Announcing the Spring 2020 Conference Grant Recipients

Video Games Have Always Been Queer Reviewed in New Media & Society

Bo Ruberg in Oxford Bibliographies

Commons Conversations 2018-2019 In Review

Damon Young Promoted to Associate Professor!

Gail De Kosnik Co-Edits Special Issue of Transformative Works and Cultures Published

New Reviews of Queer Games Studies

Alum Bonnie Ruberg Publishes "Video Games Have Always Been Queer"

Special Issue: Queerness & Video Games Co-Edited by Alum Bonnie Ruberg

Jacob Gaboury Published in Women & Performance

Jacob Gaboury Published in The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities

2018 BCNM Seed Grants: Jacob Gaboury and Queer Computing

Announcing our 2018-2019 Faculty Seed Grant Recipients

Bonnie Ruberg Published in Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds

Review of Alum Edited Queer Games Studies in CSMC

BCNM Alumna Margaret Rhee in Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016

HTNM Revisited: Intermedia Dance

BCNM New Media Graduate Students Present Their Research

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