William Morgan traveled to Brussels to present a paper at the Intersetions of Finance and Society Conference. Read more

This semester, the Berkeley Center for New Media was thrilled to support four faculty members in their scholarship through seed grants that will help catalyze their research in new media. We are excited to congratulate these amazing artists and scholars! Read more

Congratulations to these students working in the fields of architecture, geography, engineering, and more! Read more

Weiying Li received a BCNM 2023 summer research award. Read more

Don't miss these great new media talks at 4S this year! Read more

We are pleased to Support Alex Saum-Pascual, Lisa Wymore, and Jacob Gaboury's courses.  Read more

Read about Valencia James and Landship Valiant Star; a multimodal research project in which I am exploring the living history of the Barbados Landship. 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

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

Ken Goldberg presented on Expanding Access to Robots for Education and Research in the workshop on lowering barriers for robotics research. Read more

Alum Cesar Torres presented multiple papers, including "Cogcues: Shifting Perception through Interactive Projected Cues in Still Life Drawing," which won a Best Paper Award. 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 moving from “surveillance capitalism” to an even more manipulative era, the artist said. Read more

We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field.  Read more

Clancy Wilmott has released a new research article titled "Critical computation on a geographical register." Read more

Published in Wired, the article explores the history and implications of parental surveillance technologies, focusing on baby monitors. Read more

Katherine presented "Lotio: Lotion-Mediated Interaction with an Electronic Skin-Worn Display" and "Vim: Customizable, Decomposable Electrical Energy Storage." Read more

Weihong Bao, Daniel Morgan, and our own Jacob Gaboury co-edited a special issue of Critical Inquiry on Medium/Environment. Read more

Ken Goldberg is presenting at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)! Read more

The UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly Faculty Mentor Award honors members of the Berkeley faculty and teaching staff who have shown an outstanding commitment to mentoring, advising, and supporting graduate students.  Read more

Pratiti presented their work "Ghosts (of) in Calcutta: Viewing the Cities ‘Dead’" at the annual meeting of the British Association for South Asian Studies. Read more

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

Is a dog more similar to a chicken or an eagle? Is a penguin noisy? Is a whale friendly?

Celeste Kidd and team say these absurd-sounding questions might help us better understand what’s at the heart of some of society’s most vexing arguments.  Read more

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Program in Science, Technology, and Society awarded alum danah boyd its prestigious Morrison Prize and lecture. Read more

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

Clancy Wilmott and Alexis Wood presented their upcoming paper, “All your base [maps] are belong to us,” at the 2023 American Associations of Geographers (AAG) meeting in Denver, Colorado on March 24th. Read more

Congratulations to Minh Anh Van! Read more

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

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

Jeanne Carstensen spotlights Ken Goldberg's work on creative robots, the Kurzweil fallacy, and what it means to be human.

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We are thrilled to share our 2023 Summer Research Fellows from Architecture, Art Practice, Design, Education, Film & Media, Geography, and Theater, Dance and Performance Studies!  Read more

The Parables Experience takes place at MozFest! Read more

Rebecca presented her work "New Research on Roman and Late Antique Living Spaces" at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. Read more

Congratulations to these amazing students working in the fields of Asian studies, education, computer science, geography, film & media, rhetoric, EECS, architecture, and more! Read more

Sonia K Katyal receives Dukeminier award for her recent writing on gender, sexuality and AI alongside undergraduate Berkeley student Jessica Y Jung.  Read more

Digital disinformation is changing society, but the societal 3 C's (class, community, and context) are changing disinformation, too. Read more

Congratulations to Isabel Li, Riya Manimaran, and Xiaowen Yuan! Read more

The fastest laundry-folding robot and other advances in automation. Read more

Transforming Tech: Issues and Interventions in STEM and Silicon Valley offered online with Matthew Berry! Read more

Please join us in welcoming our 2022 cohort of Undergraduate Certificate in New Media students! Read more

BCNM students, faculty, and alumni are all participating in this year's 4S program. Read more

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

The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to Victor Tze and Winnona Li! Read more

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

Check out BCNM at the 25th ACM Conference! Read more

Ethnic Studies Associate professor Keith Feldman, History professor Hannah Zeavin, and writer and scholar Ra Malika Imhotep featured at American Studies Association 2022.  Read more

Applications are due February 1, 2023. Read more

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

Our alum Christine presents Project Primrose: Reflective Light-Diffuser Modules for Non-Emissive Flexible Display Systems. Read more

Zeavin publishes on virtual reality, traumatic loss, and magic in Media, Culture, & Society. Read more

Alum Pablo Paredes starts as an Assistant Professor at UMD this Fall. Read more

Ken Goldberg and team present at the 2022 International Symposium on Robotics Research. Read more

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

Our faculty member Tom McEnaney published this article with Kaitlyn Todd in Public Books, a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship . Read more

Alum Katherine Chandler writes on infrastructures of militarism and the hidden genealogies of the South African Seeker. Read more

Hannah features as a guest on Committable discussing crisis hotlines and the evolution of mental health services. Read more

Alex Saum-Pascual's Materialidad digital, algoritmos y otras abstracciones modernas is featured in Hispanic writings from the exocanon. Read more

Read about Amanda's preparation for a Spring 2023 exhibit at Wing Luke Museum, Seattle’s Asian Pacific American history museum. Read more

Ken Goldberg and team present four papers at the 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)! Read more

Julia's dissertation is titled "Patterning Recognition: A History of Automated Visual Perception." Read more

The 119th American Sociology Association annual meeting took place in Los Angeles on August 5-9. Read more

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

Jacob Gaboury's new article appears in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Read more

New research from Celeste Kidd published in Biology Letters. Read more

Alenda Chang joins in an asynchronous roundtable discussion with Tara Fickle, Gregory Grieve, and Chris Patterson on Gaming Plus Project. Read more

The Fresno Bee goes in depth on blockchain with Camille Crittenden's expertise. Read more

Tonya Nguyen's research with Samantha Robertson and Niloufar Salehi is featured in Oaklandside. Read more

Ken Goldberg and team won a Best Systems Paper Award for "Autonomously Untangling Long Cables" at Robotics Science and Systems 2022.  Read more

Revisit this great event with Adam and Zack Khalil on "Culture capture, additive defacement, and other tactics towards realizing Indigenous futures.” Read more

Camille Crittenden asks how engineers, computer scientists and technologists might engage more actively in creating solutions. Read more

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

CITRIS celebrates the tenth birthday of the Invention Lab - co-founded by our own Eric Paulos. Read more

Ken Goldberg is among the authors of this paper on how the cloud ecosystem, barely over fifteen years old, could evolve as it matures. Read more

Ken Goldberg and team published a new article featured in TechCrunch. Read more

Katherine presented "Towards Decomposable Interactive Systems: Design of a Backyard-Degradable Wireless Heating Interface." Read more

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

Our alum danah boyd published an article in the Harvard Data Science Review with Jayshree Sarathy.

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Noura Howell reflects on her failures in design research practice in "Cracks in the Success Narrative: Rethinking Failure in Design Research through a Retrospective Trioethnogrpahy". Read more

Abigail De Kosnik and Jaclyn Zhou present diversity Scores for films and television series on major streaming platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic period. Read more

BCNM shares their expertise at "Critical Data Futures: Art, Life, and Data in the Metaverse."  Read more

Jenna Burrell shares a new Data & Society research agenda in the earliest stages of discussion and planning.  Read more

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

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Congratulations to the incredible students, faculty, and alumni who represented BCNM at CHI 2022! Read more

Bo Ruberg published on Live Streaming Gender and Sexuality in Television & New Media.

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The NSF GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines. Read more

Michelle Carney talks us through tactics for building more human, more helpful, and more ethical AI + ML systems.  Read more

Jacob Gaboury's Image Objects is reviewed by Michael Eby in Artforum, discussing how digital graphics remade the material world. Read more

Congratulations to these amazing students working in the fields of architecture, technology, cognitive science, and more! Read more

Sonya Katyal, Trevor Paglen, and Ken Goldberg discuss epistemology and politics in artificial intelligence with Tanner lecture recipient Kate Crawford. Read more

Sophia Hussain is featured in the remembrances of Etel Adnan!

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Congratulations to Abigail Lomibao and Jesse Clements! Read more about their projects here! Read more

Check out Ken Goldberg's paper on Neural Information Processing Systems! Read more

Kaitlin Forcier's High-Tech Orientalism and Science Fiction Futures in Astria Suparak’s "Virtually Asian" is featured in Media N on the issue of Art and the Technologies of Race. Read more

Ken Goldberg's lab publishes "LEGS: Learning Efficient Grasping Sets for Exploratory Grasping." Read more

Hannah Zeavin's book is reviewed in The Polyphony: Conversations Across the Medical Humanities. Read more

Alum danah boyd gives the plenary at the Microsoft Research Summit on Statistical Imaginaries. Read more

Amazing representation of BCNM presenting at 4S, the Society for Social Studies of Science!  Read more

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

BCNM alum Noura Howell has joined Georgia Tech as an assistant professor in Digital Media. Read more

BCNM D.E. and Geography PhD Xiaowei Wang's essay "Shadow Visions" was published in DING Magazine. Read more

Eric Paulos, Björn Hartmann, Jingyi Li and Molly Nicholas at the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Read more

BCNM alum Pablo Paredes co-authored a research study on detecting stress levels through steering wheel angle data. Read more

BCNM faculty Hannah Zeavins was featured on Thoughts on Record, the podcast of the Ottawa Institute of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Read more

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

Marketplace spoke with BCNM faculty Ken Goldberg about Ambi Robotics, which he co-founded.  Read more

BCNM alum Stuart Geiger presented at the 2021 Conference for Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) about the labor behind maintaining free and open-source software projects. Read more

In honor of Ada Lovelace Day, Camille Crittenden wrote an important reflection on increasing equity in STEM for the Berkeley Blog. Read more

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

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

Check out the updated transcript and video for Cathy Thomas's “Echolocating the Caribbean Diaspora”. Read more

Professor Ken Goldberg's robotics startup, Ambi Robotics, has secured $26 million in funding. Read more

Pablo Paredes co-authored a research study on using Chatbots to aid in stress management. Read more

Julia Irwin received a BCNM 2021 Summer Research Award. Read about her great work researching and writing about the archives of industrial psychologist Lillian Moller Gilbreth and her husband Frank B. Gilbreth. Read more

Several papers co-written by Ken Goldberg were presented at IROS 2021. Read more

Edgar Fabián Frías speaks on creative ingenuity and reframing traditional ways of thinking with ESMoA in "Rainbow Visions Prismatic Beings". Read more

Ken Goldberg co-authored the recently published "A Roadmap for US Robotics - From Internet to Robotics 2020 Edition". Read more

Jessie Mindel was a recipient of this year's BCNM research fellowship, assisting Molly Nicholas and team on building a new web-based, collaborative design classroom tool. Read more

This semester, we're supporting the History and Theory of New Media, Locative Media, Adversarial Networks, and Against Innovation. Read more

It was a whirlwind year for BCNM and we're so proud to share some of our greatest hits from 2021.  Read more

Ra Malika Imhotep was awarded an Emerging Writers’ Artistic Residency at A Studio in the Woods. Read more

Molly Nicholas, Eric Paulos, and alum Cesar Torres all featured amazing new work at DIS 2021. Read more

Janaki Vivrekar discusses the critical designs that make up our digital social media experiences in her new technical report. Read more

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

The Electronic Literature Organization's annual conference was online again in 2021! Alex Saum-Pascual and alum Kyle Booten presented work at the distributed program. Read more

Ken Goldberg joins Geordie Rose and the CDL Reading Group to discuss the complexities of human-like grasping in robotics. Read more

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

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

BCNM alum jazmin caldéron torres's collective, Lead to Life, premiered its newest ritual film, "between starshine & clay" in May! Read more

danah boyd recently published an article discussing creating or knitting a healthy social fabric that relies on real connections. Read more

Choyang Ponsar received a BCNM undergraduate research fellowship to work on A Forensic Imaginary under the mentorship of Tory Jeffay. Read more

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

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

BCNM alumni Trevor Paglen features on the 186th episode of The Quarantine Tapes. Read more

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

Congratulations to our 2021 Undergraduate Certificate graduates! We are proud of their accomplishments and high level of scholarship here at Cal, and we wish them the best in their future endeavors.  Read more

Ken Goldberg recently featured on Episode 41 of The Robot Report Podcast to talk about his team's work in powering Ambi Robotics' robots. Read more

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

Congratulations to the incredible students, faculty, and alumni who represented BCNM at CHI 2021! Read more

Björn Hartmann published a paper on "Model-based Formalization of the Autonomy-to-Human Perception Hand-off." Read more

Ken Goldberg's articles were recently featured in the WAFR 2020 Proceedings. Read more

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

As the first Asian American Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media, and as a first-generation American and woman, this hate crime hits particularly close to home. Read more

Xiaowei Wang published a beautiful essay on their mother for Tank Magazine titled "The other mother: workers, immigrants and the settler colonial state." Check it out! Read more

Alenda Chang was recently featured on the podcast, Doing our Bit, to discuss rambunctious video games. Read more

Ken Goldberg recently spoke with Medical Design and Outsourcing on artifical intelligence and surgical robots. Read more

The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by 13 BCNM students, faculty, and alumni! Read more

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

danah boyd recently wrote an article on Linkedin titled "The US Federal Government Needs a VP of Engineering, not a CTO." Read more

Congratulations to our Fall 2020 BCNM graduates, jazmin calderón torres and Yairamen Roman Maldonado! Read more

Björn Hartmann recently published a paper titled "Opportunities and Challenges for Circuit Board Level Hardware Description Languages." Read more

Bo Ruberg contributes to the first edition of Game Studies textbook Independent Videogames. Read more

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

Camille Crittenden and the CITRIS Policy Lab investigate what blockchain technology could mean for vulnerable populations in the United States. Read more

Several papers co-written by Ken Goldberg were presented at IROS 2020. Read more

Claudia von Vacano publishes an article on Electronic Book Review! Read more

BCNM Alum Bo Ruberg features in First Monday with their article "SURVIVORS: Archiving the history of bulletin board systems and the AIDS crisis" Read more

"We want to be able to support (students), their projects, their ideas, and their innovations." Read more

Trevor Paglen was recently interviewed by the Monocle! Read more

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

Reggie Royston's research article, "Configuring Ghana's diaspora" is now available in African Diaspora.  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

The paper is being presented at the 2020 ACM User Interface Software and Technology conference. Read more

We're thrilled to support our faculty with funds for guest speakers and materials to enhance the student experience. Read more

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

Haripriya is working on a mixed-methods study on enhancing patient experience through collaborative design of patient spaces in pediatric hospital environments using immersive technology. Read more

Ken Goldberg was invited to a workshop to debate with other well-known researchers on the impact of Sim2Real on robotics Read more

The show runs from Sep 4, 2020–Mar 14, 2021. Read more

Look forward to robotic surgeon assistants! Read more

Cornell Law Review published Sonia Katyal's article, "The Paradox of Source Code Secrecy." Read more

BCNM Designated Emphasis (D.E) program, Leah Rosenbaum published "Shaping Perception: Designing for Participatory Facilitation of Collaborative Geometry” Read more

Check out the awesome presentations and features of our faculty, student, and alumni work across the web this past July! Read more

"I am now more familiar with and understand the courtroom's significance as a space for innovative technology." Read more

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

George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. Tony McDade. We say their names in order to express our horror and rage at the ongoing crisis of anti-Black police violence in this country and across the world. Read more

Alenda Chang, BCNM alum, is on the advisory board for Video Games and the Humanities, a series that frames scholarly approaches to video games in the humanities. Read more

Bélgica del Rio, a Spring 2020 Conference Grant recipient, presented "The Performativities of Anishinaabe Water Songs in My Body” at the American Indian and Indigenous Collective’s 6th Annual Symposium. Read more

Congratulations to our 2020 cohort, who are graduating with the New Media Undergraduate Certificate!

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Revisit curator Horace Ballad's talk about his exhibit “possible selves: queer foto vernaculars" in an article reposted from the Arts Research Center. Read more

BCNM Professor Eric Paulos' past research on Familiar Stranger from 2003 has been revived by MIT researchers in a plan to combat COVID-19. Read more

We are thrilled to share our 2020 Summer Research Fellows from Anthropology, Architecture, Art Practice, Music, and Rhetoric! Read more

Aditya Ganapathi et al., including our own Ken Golberg, on robotic fabric manipulation.   Read more

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

CHI has been cancelled due to COVID-19, but let's celebrate the incredible work of our students, faculty, and alumni who were slated to present! Read more

We're offering a new course this fall, NWMEDIA 151AC: Transforming Tech! Don't miss out! Read more

Trevor Paglen was recently featured for his work in a New York Times article on the connection between art and artificial intelligence. Read more

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

Check out BCNM alum John Scott's work and research on accessibility and inclusion in digital learning. Read more

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

Congratulations to our impressive students who were awarded grants for their original project ideas! Read more

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

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting features presentations by four BCNM students and alumni! Read more

“Making Faces,” an installation conceived by AI researcher Kate Crawford and artist Trevor Paglen for Prada Mode, a two-day cultural event held in Paris on Jan. 19 and 20, tells us how exactly facial recognition works and who it benefits. Read more

Eleni Oikonomaki, Lian Song, Rashad Timmons, and Bryan Truitt were Fall 2019 Conference Grant recipients and attended the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB).  Read more

Check out the stellar BCNM students who were featured on Berkeley's Art + Design book, "Made at Berkeley."  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

Rama Gottfried and Ritwik Banerji contributed pieces to the 2019 issue of Array.  Read more

DE Juliana Friend and alum Reginold Royston presented their riveting research at the American Anthropological Association's annual meeting last year.  Read more

Last year, both BCNM students and alumni presented compelling new research at annual meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts 2019. Read more

Xiaowei Wang, a Fall 2019 Conference Grant recipient, presented "Let's Have a Pearl Party: Style and Livestream in the Making of Subculture” at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts annual meeting. Read more

Alum Jen Schradie's latest book receives an excellent review from Barbara Fister. 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

Monocle Weekly published an interview with alum Trevor Paglen on our artificial intelligence systems. Read more

Jacob Gaboury spoke at the Fondazione Prada Exhibition, Training Humans, by alum Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford. Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen along with Kate Crawford penned an important essay on the politics of images in machine learning training sets Read more

Ken co-published on "Deep Imitation Learning of Sequential Fabric Smoothing Policies" Read more

Bo Ruberg's Video Games Have Always Been Queer was reviewed by Cenk Koknar in Critical Studies in Media & Communication. Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen discusses art and AI, machine vision, and shutting down the internet with Robert Barry. Read more

Alum Bo Ruberg keynoted the UC Irvine Esports conference with a presentation on diversity and Esports. Read more

A new living document by danah boyd explains how differential privacy works in the context of the US Census and illuminates key conversations, misunderstandings, and anxieties surrounding this disclosure avoidance system. Read more

ALum Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford created ImageNet Roulette, a new art piece that has stirred controversy and accolades across the globe. Read more

Is media silence as powerful in shaping public discussion as deliberate rhetoric? If so, do editorial boards need to strategically amplify certain speech? Read more

Trevor Paglen's first solo exhibition in Korea is held at the Nam June Paik Art Center until February 2, 2020. Read more

McGonigal's smartphone app SuperBetter was recently featured on Vox. Read more

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

BCNM Director Abigail de Kosnik published her paper on the origins of digital remix culture in the Fall 2019 issue of Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Read more

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

More in the media from faculty Ken Goldberg, Alex Saum, Claudia von Vacano and Jacob Gaboury; and alumni Trevor Paglen, Bo Ruberg, Alenda Chang and Jen Schradie. Read more

More in the media from faculty Ken Goldberg and Koci Hernandez; and alumni Trevor Paglen, danah boyd, Jen Schradie, Tiffany Ng, Ritwik Banerji, Bo Ruberg, and Jane McGonigal.  Read more

BCNM is hosting three scholars from the Berggruen Institute this year. Learn more about who they are and what they're researching! Read more

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

BCNM alum danah boyd was recognized as a 2019 EFF Barlow 'Trailblazing Technology Scholar'  Read more

Artist Brian Bartz worked on custom computer-vision algorithms in alum Trevor Paglen's art studio in Berlin. Read more

BCNM alumni, faculty, and students will present at the National Women's Studies Association 2019 conference in San Francsico.  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

Alex Saum Pascual and Kyle Booten discussed wideranging topics including e-lit's social function and art in the age of mechanical reproduction! Read more

Ambidextrous Robotics builds on DexNet, the patent-pending Dexterity Network developed by Goldberg and Mahler. Read more

This summer, Rebecca traveled to Athens to study architectural sculpture and figural graffiti using cutting edge imaging. Read more

Senator Klobuchar has introduced Digital Media Literacy legislation at the 116th Congress, with support from several BCNM faculty, students, and staff.

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The American Society of Media Photographers featured Koci Hernandez in "Questions with an Educator." Read more

Issue 2 "How to be Now" of Post 45 features Damon Young's investigation of irony in the age of the internet. Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen joins Kate Crawford for the Fondazione Prada exhibition, running from 12 Sep 2019 – 24 Feb 2020. Read more

Jacob writes for the blog Still Searching on a history and theory of the computer screenshot. Read more

Check out the highlights and videos from a stellar season, featuring luminaries such as Roxane Gay and Adam Savage! Read more

BCNM presented their latest research at the CM Designing Interactive Systems 2019 conference on Contesting Borders and Intersections. Read more

Check out the highlights and videos from this incredible program, featuring Molly Steenson and Safiya Noble! Read more

Ken Goldberg contributed to "Extending Deep Model Predictive Control with Safety Augmented Value Estimation from Demonstrations." Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen collaborated with the Kronos Quartet to present Sight Machine on July 11th, 2019 at the Barbican. Read more

Ken Goldberg co-authored several papers presented at ICRA 2019. Read more

Arianna Ninh received a BCNM Undergraduate Research Fellowship to work on Alterwear under the mentorship of Molly Nicholas. Read more

Jacob Gaboury recaps an incredible year as a 2018 BCNM Faculty Seed Grant recipient. Read more

Ken spoke to Michael Jordan on Artificial Intelligence: Minds, Economies and Systems that Learn. Read more

Qian presented "I Almost Fell in Love with a Machine: Speaking with Computers Affects Closeness and Self-disclosure" at the Human Factors in Computing Systems conference in Glasgow, Scotland. Read more

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

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

Soravis presented “Exploring Word-gesture Text Entry Techniques in Virtual Reality” at the Human Factors in Computing Conference 2019 in Glasgow, Scotland. Read more

The Initiative seeks to work on systems for AI that integrate data, algorithms, context, and human values. Read more

Noura presented "The Heart Sounds Bench" at the Human Factors in Computing Systems conference of 2019 in Glasgow, Scotland. Read more

The exhibition Entangled Realities runs from May 9th to August 11th and is dedicated to the current topic of artificial intelligence (AI) and its effects on human life and society. 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

César presented "A Conversation with Actuator" at TEI 2019 on behalf of the Hybrid Ecologies Lab. Read more

Harry presented "Stereo in the 19th Century: Space, Audition, and the Théâtrophone" at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies conference in Seattle, Washington. Read more

Miyoko Conley presented "Designing a K-pop Audience: Asian American Performance in KPOP the Musical" at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies conference. Read more

We are thrilled by the ambitious and innovative work these students are completing, and are pleased to be able to provide summer funding to support their research initiatives. Read more

Join Jen Schradie on April 16, 2019 at 5pm at the Sciences Po symposium! Read more

Ken Goldberg will be co-hosting a talk with UC Berkeley's Michael Jordan at TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics & AI. Read more

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.

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"It's About Power" by alum Jenni Higgs and Sepehr Vakil was published in the March 2019 volume of Communications of the ACM. Read more

Fast Company features Katyal's article in writing about the conflict between civil rights and artificial intelligence. Read more

Goldberg contributed an article to Back to the Sandbox: Art and Radical Pedagogy 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

The Association for Asian American Studies selected her book for an award in Poetry. Read more

The UCLA Law Review published Sonia Katyal's paper on accountability and artificial intelligence. Read more

The DailyCal features Ken Goldberg and team's DexNet 4.0 Read more

Trevor Paglen will co-host a featured speaker session at SXSW on March 9. Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen joins Kate Crawford to discuss the biases and skews of artificial intelligence. Read more

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

Alum Stuart Geiger, ethnographer of computation and computational ethnographer; research staff at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, gave a talk on the human aspects of data science research. Read more

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

Apply for Semester Long Collaborative Opportunity through CITRIS, in partnership with Tecnológico de Monterrey! Includes travel to Mexico this summer! Read more

The 21st ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing featured presentations by BCNM faculty, students, and alumni! Read more

Each year, undergraduates work closely with our graduate mentors on academic research. Read more

Ken Goldberg was one of the guest speakers at a weekly robotics seminar held at Stanford. Read more

Jacob Gaboury presented a lecture on queer computing and the concept of data processing beyond successful communication. Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen combines artwork with artifcial intelligence in an engaging musical performance with Kronos Quartet at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.  Read more

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

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

This summer, Peter Humphrey explored the evolution of electroacoustic science and the history of sound recording. Read more

Ken Goldberg's conversation around bias in AI was one of the key takeaways from TechCrunch's Disrupt SF conference.

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BCNM faculty Ken Goldberg is the keynote speaker Day 2 of RoboBusiness 2018.  Read more

Study from consulting firm Tata Communications on AI, co-authored by Ken Goldberg, covered in the press. Read more

Great to see BCNM faculty and graduate students part of the Spring 2019 Global Urban Humanities-Townsend Fellows. Read more

BCNM professor Ken Goldberg, UCOT's Chris Ategeka and Google AI's Timnit Gebru presented "Will AI Diversify Human Thinking or Replace It" at TechCrunch's Disrupt SF 2018. Read more

This summer, Ritwik Banerji studied improvisatory jazz to see if musicians tended toward novelty or conventionality. Read more

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

This summer, Noura Howell developed a prototype for a biosensing bench for connecting community members. Read more

The 20th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction was held in Las Vegas from the 15th-20th of July, 2018. Read more

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

In "What Do Facial Recognition Technologies Mean for Our Privacy?" Teicher focuses on how artists are using these apps. Read more

"Why is Facebook keen on robots? It's just the future of AI," writes Ryan Nakashima. 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

Wired magazine shares how we can enhance robots' ability to grasp through submitting object designs to Ken Goldberg's Dex-Net. Read more

Join Ken Goldberg on June 27th for a screening of Operator, followed by a discussion on the technologies presented in the film. Read more

"The Types, Roles, and Practices of Documentation in Data Analytics Open Source Software Libraries" was published on May 29th, 2018. Read more

Ken Goldberg's latest research on the evaluation systems used in online shopping is featured in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Read more

Alum Jen Schradie and an international team of collaborators won a European Commission Grant to study online hate speech against Muslims Read more

Our alumni present their exceptional scholarship at the International Communication Association 2018 Conference. Read more

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

Soravis Prakkamakul received a Spring 2018 BCNM Conference Grant to present his paper "Reflexive Visual Inspection of Cleft Lip Faces — Analysis of Lookzone Focus Over Time" at the 63rd Plastic Surgery Research Council Annual Meeting in Birmingham, Alabama. Read more

Marissa Ahmed was a recipient of this year's BCNM research fellowship, assisting Ritwik Banerji on his research about human sociality and algorithmic ethnography. Read more

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

Ken Goldberg was a speaker at ICRA 2018's workshop on advances in robotic warehouse automation.  Read more

Ken Goldberg contributed a commentary piece on human-machine collaboration to The Wall Street Journal.  Read more

We are thrilled to welcome to our Executive Committee, Executive Director of Digital Humanities at Berkeley and the D-Lab, Claudia Von Vacano. Read more

Molly Nicholas is a Spring 2018 BCNM Conference Grant Recipient who attended "Engage at CHI" 2019 in Montréal, Canada. Read more

Claudia Ruslim, recipient of a BCNM undergraduate research fellowship, was selected to act as a research assistant to Will Payne. Read more

Robots are slowing becoming master of dexterity, and Ken Goldberg is a leading engineer in the field. Read more

The University of California, San Diego invited alum Stuart Geiger to present a talk on his research. Read more

The 2018 Graduate Student Conference at Harvard starred BCNM Assisant Professor's Jacob Gaboury as a keynote speaker.  Read more

The Undergraduate Certificate in New Media was listed as one of the 10 "cool majors" at UC Berkeley by The Daily Californian.  Read more

BCNM faculty Jacob Gaboury's research on the computer screen has been published in Grey Room, a peer-reviewed academic journal that includes articles from the fields of architecture, art, media, and politics.  Read more

Ritwik Banerji, Ph.D. candidate in Ethnomusicology, discusses new developments in his research about human sociality in relation to AI. Read more

Cesar Torres, BCNM DE, was named demo arrangement co-chair for TEI 2019. Read more

BCNM alum Jen Schradie will be the keynote speaker for the 2018 Media Sociology Preconference taking place in August. Read more

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

Overwhelmed by the amazing panels at CHI 2018? Make your CHI experience a BCNM one with our guide to where our students, faculty, and alumni will be presenting! Read more

Stuart Geiger spoke at the University of Manchester's Data Science Institute on The Human Contexts of Data: Infrastructures, Institutions, and Interpretations. Read more

Trevor Paglen was named an artist fellow at AI Now Institute, tasked with supporting the institute's research in examining the social implications of artificial intelligence. Read more

Recap of the Software Arts, the last HTNM lecture of the year!  Read more

Ken Goldberg gave the opening keynote at IoT World USA Conference! Read more

Ken Goldberg and the da Vinci robot's surgical potential was featured in Wired. Read more

Geiger spoke on Computational Ethnography as part of U of M iSchool's speaker series.  Read more

Prof. David Bates is presenting "Thinking outside the body: on the technical evolution of intelligence” for the STS Program’s Annual Straker lecture. The lecture will occur on Tuesday, March 6th at 5 PM in Swing 122. Read more

Trevor Paglen will be speaking at this year's Webstock conference in New Zealand. Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen and Wendy Hui Kyong Chun were Keynote Speakers at Ways of Knowing Cities Conference by the Center for Spatial Research at Columbia.

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Alum Trevor Paglen spoke KW Institute for Contemporary Art, in conversation with Krist Gruijthuijsen, for mono.klub, the analog to mono.kultur magazine.  Read more

Each year, the BCNM selects four graduate student projects that we believe will both interest and prove engaging to undergraduates. Undergraduates apply to be a research fellow and once selected, they have the opportunity to work on high-level research in concert with our graduates, who mentor them on research methods. Read more

Ken Goldberg collaborated with 16 other Berkeley researchers in composing a paper on their perspectives of systems challenges for AI. Read more

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

Queer Game Studies, edited by BCNM alum Bonnie Ruberg (with Adrienne Shaw), has been reviewed in First Person Scholar. Read more

Ken Goldberg and team published on BAIR about DART: Noise Injection for Robust Imitation Learning. Read more

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

Ken Goldberg, member of RISElab and Chair of IEOR, comments on possible methods to control the AI challenges that are appearing. Read more

Stuart Geiger on the role of algorithmic systems in Wikipedian organizational culture in ACM Proceedings. Read more

Stuart Geiger on the role of algorithmic systems in Wikipedian organizational culture in Big Data & Society. Read more

Read about Maija Hynninen's BCNM-funded research as she builds and improves the sound diffusion system for 'Sounding Sculpture.' Read more

BCNM alum Stuart Geiger will be giving a talk about machine learning and artificial intelligence at the Bay Area Science Festival in early November.  Read more

BCNM alum Reginold Royston presented at the first day of the Strategic Narratives of Technology and Africa conference. Read more

Read about Molly Nicholas' BCNM-funded research on wearable tech for therapeutic clowning, in collaboration with the Medical Clown Project. Read more

Join cross-disciplinary experts from UC Berkeley and beyond as they share perspectives on data's influence on learning environments (think: how bCourses became bCourses) Read more

Malika Imhotep documents her BCNM-funded research on Black feminism in Brazil. Read more

From software arts to self-tracking technologies, cybernetics to techno-ecologies, we are thrilled to introduce the speakers in this year's History and Theory of New Media program. Read more

Ken Goldberg led a conversation on a benign robot future in which robots work together with humans at "What's Now: San Francisco" at the Applied Innovation Exchange. Read more

The professor of Robotics, Automation, and New Media spent time at MIT last week for a conference on robots. Read more

David Bates headed to Paris to participate in a two-day seminar project on AI and "black boxes". Read more

Undergrad Carmen Zheng was selected to work with Ritwik Banerji on his project Music, Improvisation, and Ethnography. Read more

Goldberg and Crittenden were at the "Inclusive AI: Technology and Policy for a Diverse Urban Future" symposium. Read more

Ken Goldberg featured in "Cloud Robotics Promises to Simplify Machine Tending" in Robotics Business Review Read more

Ken Goldberg and T-ASE's simplified second abstract was featured in an article for the IEEE RAS.  Read more

Grace Gipson shared insights on comics and afrofuturism at the Black Imagine Oakland convention. Read more

We look forward to sharing their future endeavors!

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BCNM was well represented at CHI 2017 in Denver, Colorado. Read more

Congratulations to Nicholas de Monchaux on being named a Bakar Faculty Fellow and recipient of the Spark Fund Award for 2017-2018! Read more

The workshop has already reached it’s enrollment limit, and in response EMPAC is offering a lecture-only option during the week Read more

Will Payne presented his research at the American Association of Geographers this April in Boston, MA. Read more

The “Color of New Media Working Group” met as a part of Commons Conversations to discuss the vertiginous political climate. Read more

Ed Campion (Music) received $5,000 to build a sound habitat with Ron Rael (Architecture) as part of our Faculty Seed Grant program. Read more

An amazing talk by Kavita Philip Read more

BCNM Director Nicholas de Monchaux performed with Tom Sachs in the closing performance piece of the Europa landing exhibition Read more

Revisiting our lovely event with Geoff Manaugh who offered students and the public an insight into the design of cities and their unintentional impacts through the lense of "burglary." Read more

This past Fall, we were pleased to offer several grants to help support our students in sharing their research at the premiere conferences in their field Read more

Shannon Jackson is Associate Vice Chancellor of the Arts and Design and the Cyrus and Michelle Hadidi Professor at UC Berkeley. Read more

Don't miss out on this great discussion between Geoff Manaugh and Nicholas de Monchaux on Urban Data Operations at the Storefront for Art & Architecture this January 18 from 7-9pm! Read more

Miyoko Conley recaps Bernard Stiegler's exciting Symposium held in October. Read more

BCNM was pleased to partner with the University of California Davis Libraries and Digital Humanities at Berkeley to bring PressForward to UC Berkeley Read more

Goldberg published an article, A Century of Art and Technology in the Bay Area, on Medium Read more

Niemeyer taught at the Digital Art History Summer School in Malaga, Spain from September 4th to 9th Read more

This year the biennial ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) was held in Brisbane, Australia Read more

Our alumni voted on the applications and awarded $10,000 to Eric Paulos to design The Making of Un-making Read more

Devendorf gave a talk at the ACM Conference of Designing Interactive Systems in Brisbane, Australia Read more

Laura Devendorf is a PhD Candidate at the UC Berkeley School of Information Read more

Professor Ken Goldberg had multiple papers accepted the 12th Annual International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering Read more

The article discussed Goldberg's work in human-machine collaboration Read more

BCNM was thrilled to be so widely represented at the ACM SIGCHI Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2016 conference in Brisbane, Australia Read more

BCNM Explores, a series of site tours to investigate collaborations across disciplines Read more

Kate Mattingly recaps Ahmed Ghappour's talk. Read more

BCNM faculty were featured in a recent New York Times piece on monitoring and data security in the UC system Read more

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from his HTNM lecture, "System Addicts," earlier this April Read more

A recording of Alexander Weheliye's lecture, "Technologies of Humanity in Contemporary R&B Music" Read more

Aclima designs and deploys environmental sensor networks.  Read more

Mark your calendars — BCNM is hard at work bringing together a brilliant Fall 2015 program! Check out some of these great events! 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

Submission Deadline: May 1, 2015 Read more

Applications this semester were phenomenal and we’re thrilled by the unique perspectives each of our new students will bring to the Center Read more

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Eric Paulos' CS160: User Interface Design Course was presented the challenge and opportunity of creating app which incorporate both smartphones and the Toq Smartwatc Read more

Winners of Hack the Bells, the first international carillon remix competition, have been selected Read more

Adam Hutz (Rhetoric) was one of five exceptional graduate students to be awarded a $1000 BCNM Summer Research Award. Check out what he's done so far! Read more

Follow Camille Crittenden on Twitter: www.twitter.com/data_democracy Read more

In April, the Berkeley Center for New Media hosted the university’s first Wikipedia edit-a-thon, facilitated by Susan B. Miller Fellow Sarah Stierch Read more

We are proud to announce our latest cohort of graduating BCNM Designated Emphasis and Masters Certificate students 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

Download a free copy of the article at Stuart's website! Read more

The semester's final ATC talk was a success as new Art Practice faculty member Stephanie Syjuco presented “Lossy: On the Politics of Networked Flows and Degraded Systems” Read more

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

We are delighted to welcome 3 new graduate students to our Masters Certificate program Read more

A contribution by Katherine Chandler on Alexander Galloway's recent HTNM talk Read more

The Exploratorium has an exciting new position open for a new media exhibit developer focusing on interactive data visualizations. Details here! Read more

We are delighted to welcome 9 new graduate students to our Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate programs Read more

On her talk, "Your Presence is Required: Performance, Control, and Magnetism” Read more

Creating Minds, an academic conference on reading and writing in the digital age had over 300 attendees throughout the day's talks and panels! Read more

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

UC Berkeley just completed the transition of all of its email from a proprietary system to gmail. Faculty shares their thoughts. Read more

For his project "Agency, Structure, and Organization: Paths to Participation in Large-Scale Socio-Technical Systems" Read more

The position is open to all current UC Berkeley students. Read more

By Scott Summit, designer and founder of Bespoke Innovations Read more

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

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

This year's theme is ""Big Data at Berkeley" Read more

We are delighted to announce the following newly students to the BCNM Designated Emphasis and Master's Certificate Program in New Media Read more

For their research, "Unmanned Aerial Systems: The United States’ Techno-Political Entanglements in the Post-Cold War" Read more

Currently, Powers of Ten will be showing at SFMOMA Six Lines of Flight on Sept. 15-Dec. 30, 2012
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We mourn the passing of the influential media theorist Friedrich Kittler, who was a member of BCNM's international advisory board Read more

Dor Abrahamson, Assistant Professor Graduate School of Education Cognition and Development: Education in Mathematics, Science, & Technology, UC Berkeley Read more

"Opinion Space" is a social media technology designed to help communities generate and exchange ideas about important issues and policies. Read more