11 Apr, 2024 Special Events Questioning History in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Keynote: Shane Denson, Stanford University 5-7pm on Thursday, April 11 in Dwinelle 142 Seminars Thursday, 4/11 in the Social Sciences Matrix Read more
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
28 Aug, 2023 Art, Tech & Culture The ghost in the machine is me. with Jen Liu, Artist Moderated by Xiaowei R. Wang Accompanied by Mia J. Chong, Dancer Co-sponsored by the English Department and the Department of Art Practice Read more
07 Nov, 2022 History & Theory Animating Cities Digitally: Processing Urban Space and Time with Gillian Rose Visiting Scholar in Department of Geography; Professor, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford Co-sponsored by the Department of Geography and Media Studies Read more
14 Apr, 2022 Art, Tech & Culture George's Blues: An Investigation of George Washington Carver’s Legacy as an Artist and Cook with Seitu Jones Artist, Saint Paul, Minnesota Presented in partnership the Department of Art Practice and co-sponsored by American Cultures. Read more
25 Feb, 2021 Conference Fandom + Piracy Keynote: “How should we theorize injury in fan studies?” with Rebecca Wanzo Professor and Chair of the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Washington University in St. Louis Read more
27 Apr, 2018 Special Events Berkeley Conference on Film and Media: Medium/Environment Berkeley Film & Media’s 4th biennial conference seeks to bring together leading international media theorists working on questions of “environmental media” broadly conceived Read more
22 Sep, 2016 & Media Student Conference with Kristopher Fallon (Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis) and Jenny Odell (Digital Media Artist) Read more
11 Jul, 2016 Special Events BCNM at Graduate Programs Fair Learn about our Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate in New Media programs! Read more
17 Aug, 2015 Workshops Digital Humanities Summer Institute Digital Humanities at Berkeley will be running a summer institute of intensive workshops led by DH experts Read more
09 Apr, 2015 Special Events Preserving Our Intellectual Legacies in the Digital Age An Authors Alliance event presented by the Townsend Center for the Humanities Read more
13 Nov, 2014 Special Events Inter/nationalism from the Holy Land to the New World "Encountering Palestine in American Indian Studies," a lecture by Steven Salaita Read more
26 Apr, 2012 Special Events Digital Inquiry: Forms of Knowledge in the Age of New Media Reflections on the nature of knowledge in the digital age, a symposium Read more
15 Dec, 2024 Abigail De Kosnik, Jaclyn Zhou, and Jingyi Li's MERL Receives Sage Concept Grant As the winners of the Sage Teaching category, Abigail De Kosnik, Jingyi Li, and Jaclyn Zhou have been awarded a Sage Concept Grant for the Media Education Research Lab at UC Berkeley! Read more
04 Jul, 2024 Fall 2024 Applications for Designated Emphasis, Certificate, and Undergraduate Certificate Now Open Applications are due November 1, 2024! Read more
20 May, 2024 BCNM's Big Wins 2024 We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2023-2024! Read more
15 Apr, 2024 Video now online! Sylvain Parasie's Computing the News: Data Journalism and the Search for Objectivity Missed the talk with Sylvain Parasie? The video is now uploaded to YouTube! Read more
25 Jan, 2024 Announcing BCNM's Spring 2024 Undergraduate Research Fellows 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 semester's Fellows. Read more
15 Jan, 2024 Spring 2024 Designated Emphasis and Certificate Applications Now Open Applications are due March 1, 2024. Read more
15 Oct, 2023 Julia Irwin on a History of Artificial Perception Summer research from Julia Irwin on "Patterning Recognition: A History of Artificial Perception." Read more
05 Jul, 2023 Fall 2023 Designated Emphasis and Certificate Applications Now Open Applications are due November 1, 2023. Read more
27 Jun, 2023 BCNM's Big Wins 2023 We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022-2023! Read more
25 May, 2023 Jacob Gaboury Co-Edits Critical Inquiry Weihong Bao, Daniel Morgan, and our own Jacob Gaboury co-edited a special issue of Critical Inquiry on Medium/Environment. Read more
05 Jan, 2023 Spring 2023 Designated Emphasis and Certificate Applications Now Open Applications for Spring 2023 admittance are due March 1, 2023. Read more
29 Dec, 2022 Conference Grants: Eric Rawn at SHOT 2022 Eric presented on his work "Making Sense, Crystallizing Reason: Towards An Intellectual History of Pervasive Computing at Xerox PARC" at the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual Meeting 2022. Read more
28 Nov, 2022 Announcing Our 2022 Undergraduate Cohort Please join us in welcoming our 2022 cohort of Undergraduate Certificate in New Media students! Read more
27 Aug, 2022 Fall 2022 Designated Emphasis and Certificate Applications Now Open Join the Berkeley Center for New Media! Applications due November 1, 2022. Read more
09 Aug, 2022 Conference Report: Molly Nicholas at Creativity and Cognition Molly Nicholas and team received a Best Paper Award for "Creative and Motivational Strategies Used by Expert Creative Practitioners." Read more
10 Jun, 2022 BCNM's Big Wins 2022 We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022! Read more
28 Apr, 2022 People Are Not Fixed Media by Ritwik Banerji Ritwik published an article illustrating the Fixed media which are the dominant media form social scientists and humanists use to depict human practice. Read more
31 Mar, 2022 Bo Ruberg on Queer Gaming Practices on Arebyte Bo Ruberg talks about how LGBTQI+ game makers are reimagining the medium of video games. Read more
20 Jan, 2022 Spring 2022 Applications for the Designated Emphasis and Certificate Now Open The Berkeley Center for New Media is now accepting applications for admission to the Designated Emphasis (DE) in New Media and the Graduate Certificate in New Media programs. All applications for Spring 2022 admittance are due March 1, 2022. Read more
18 Oct, 2021 On the Wings of Ada Lovelace by Camille Crittenden In honor of Ada Lovelace Day, Camille Crittenden wrote an important reflection on increasing equity in STEM for the Berkeley Blog. Read more
24 Apr, 2021 David Bamman Promoted to Associate Professor Congratulations, David Bamman, on being promoted to Associate Professor in the School of Information. Read more
09 Dec, 2020 Spring 2021 Applications for Designated Emphasis and Certificate in New Media Now Open Read more
25 Nov, 2020 Spring 2021 BCNM Events Mark your calendars for this incredible line up of speakers! Read more
23 Sep, 2020 Seed Grants Recipient: Celeste Kidd and The Role of Reasoning and Metacognition during Belief Formation in the Internet Era Celeste Kidd received a Seed Grant to examine "The role of reasoning and metacognition during belief formation in the internet era". Read more
29 Jul, 2020 Fall 2020 Applications for Designated Emphasis and Certificate in New Media Now Open Read more
01 Jul, 2020 Juliana Friend Named Woodrow Wilson Newcombe Fellow This prestigious fellowship supports promising scholars in the completion of their dissertations examining ethics and religion. Read more
27 Apr, 2020 The Berkeley Center for New Media to Join the College of Engineering The Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) is thrilled to share that the College of Engineering (COE) will become our new administrative home on July 1, 2020. Read more
12 Apr, 2020 BCNM at CHI 2020 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
27 Nov, 2019 Spring 2020 Applications for Designated Emphasis and Certificate in New Media Now Open Read more
16 Oct, 2019 BCNM Scholar Interviews BCNM is hosting three scholars from the Berggruen Institute this year. Learn more about who they are and what they're researching! Read more
29 Aug, 2019 Zeynep Tufekci on Digital Infrastructures That Serve Humanity (TED photo by Ryan Lash via Flickr) Read more
22 Aug, 2019 Summer Research Dispatch: Tory Jeffay on Photographic Evidence & Police Body Cameras Read more
08 Jul, 2019 Fall 2019 Applications for Designated Emphasis and Certificate in New Media Now Open Read more
05 Jul, 2019 Ken Goldberg Interview in Robotics Business Review Working at the intersection of art, robotics, and social media, Ken shares his thoughts on making robots less clumsy when grabbing objects. Read more
12 Feb, 2019 Alum Stuart Geiger at Workshop on the Ethics and Policy Implications of Big Data This February 15th and 16th, this workship will by held in the University of California, San Diego. 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
30 Jul, 2018 Grace Gipson Presents at UNC's 2018 MURAP Conference The 2018 Conference for UNC Chapel Hill's Moore Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program focused on Afrofuturism and Indigenous Futurities. Read more
18 Jul, 2018 Ritwik Banerji Published on Interactions with Artificial Social Agents The article is titled: "De-instrumentalizing HCI: Social Psychology, Rapport Formation, and Interactions with Artificial Social Agents" 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
23 Jan, 2018 Congratulations to our Spring 2018 Graduating Undergraduates! Congratulations to Shangjun (Jenny) Jiang and Allison Nguyen our Spring 2018 Graduating Undergraduates! Read more
28 Nov, 2017 Welcome to our 2017 Undergraduate Cohort 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
26 Sep, 2017 Fall 2017 Applications Now Open Undergraduate Certificate Program Undergraduated are now invited to apply for Fall 2017 admission into the BCNM undergrad program. Applications due November 1. Read more
19 Jul, 2017 Camille Crittenden part of New NHERI SimCenter The Deputy Director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute joins the SimCenter, an organization for research on natural hazards. Read more
13 Mar, 2017 DH Fellows Talk with Juliana Friend Juliana Friend and Laura K Nelson will lead the talk Digital Technologies and the Future of Qualitative and Interpretive Analysis. 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 Shannon Jackson Published in the Journal of Visual Culture The issue was co-edited by UC Berkeley's own Julia Bryan-Wilson, as well as Jennifer González and Dominic Willsdon Read more
28 Jan, 2016 Apply now for the DE & Certificate in New Media Applications for Fall 2016 admittance are due March 1, 2016 Read more
03 Dec, 2014 Welcoming New Undergraduate Certificate Students Hailing from a range of disciplines, the undergraduates who applied exemplified the interdisciplinary community the Center serves Read more
28 Jan, 2013 Applications for M.A./Ph.D. Academic Programs in New Media due March 1, 2013 Applications for Fall 2013 admittance to both programs are due March 1, 2013 Read more
18 Sep, 2012 Applications for M.A./Ph.D. Academic Programs in New Media Due November 1, 2012 Read more
06 Jul, 2011 City Sandbox Goes Live A collaboration of art, engineering, and social sciences at the University of California, citysandbox.com, is live! Read more
15 Jun, 2011 The New Social App Lab at CITRIS The Social App Lab is an interdisciplinary initiative and supported at UC Berkeley by CITRIS Read more
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions. Fall 2020
