Welcome to the Berkeley Center for New Media

Your gift to BCNM helps fund cutting-edge programs like the Global Digital Infrastructure Certificate, Indigenous Technologies initiatives led by scholar and artist Talia Dixon, and Disability Justice workshops, ensuring students and researchers continue to explore how technology shapes society and how it can be built responsibly. Read more

UC Berkeley News features BCNM student Sophia Perez (PhD Candidate, Geography) and the story of how she came to organize Native Seas, our weeklong series of events on the revitalization of Pacific Indigenous seafaring. Read more

In a lecture from The Brilliance of Berkeley series, UC Berkeley Film and Media professor Nicole Starosielski explores how sustainability initiatives can reshape the backbone of the internet: subsea fiber-optic cables. Read more

BCNM is excited to announce Sophia Perez (Ph.D. candidate in Geography) as the 2026 Peter Lyman Fellow! Read more

BCNM Executive Committee member Claudia Natalia von Vacano jons Schmidt Science Fellows at UC Berkeley to discuss integrating ethics and equity into scientific research. Read more

Our 2025 Lyman Fellows Eda Er (Music Composition) and Meg Everett (Learning Sciences and Human Development) report on how their fellowships have enabled them to progress in their respective research projects on traditional Turkish Ebru (marbling) techniques and on the ways social media platforms shape schooling experiences. Read more

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced this week that four UC Berkeley faculty have been elected to its ranks, including BCNM Co-Founder Ken Goldberg. Read more

Calling all AAPI undergraduates seeking to work in entertainment! If you have an internship in Los Angeles this upcoming summer 2026, we highly encourage you to apply for this once in a lifetime opportunity to be mentored by AAPI leaders in the industry who were once in your shoes at Cal. Deadline April 6, 2026. Info Session February 24 online. Read more