We're so pleased to provide undergraduate research opportunities! This past semester, Fizzah Kayani worked with Arianna Khmelniuk on Olfactory Narratives in Cinema, a project examining how scent-related language in film reflects and reinforces power dynamics, ideologies, and binary oppositions—particularly around gender, race, and global culture. 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 semester's Fellows.

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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 premiere conferences in their field. We look forward to seeing the work of these students spread across the globe! Read more

We are thrilled to welcome this Spring's cohort—an amazing group of interdisciplinary scholars from Film and Media, Information Science, Spanish and Portuguese, Envrionmental Design, Art Practice, Engineering, and Landscape Architecture! Read more

We’re excited to share a testimonial from Minh Anh Van, the inaugural recipient of the AAPI Careers in Entertainment Creative Fellowship, who reflects on how this opportunity shaped her path and helped her take the next step in her career! Read more

We are excited to announce our recommended New Media courses for Summer 2025! Whether you're drawn to sound design, tech geopolitics, feminist media studies, or animation, these courses will inspire creativity, critical thinking, and hands-on learning in the ever-evolving landscape of new media. 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 semester's Fellows. Read more

We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Arianna Khmelniuk, a second-year graduate student in Art Practice, presented on olfaction, cinema, and cultural identity at the ASTR conference in Seattle! 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 premiere conferences in their field. Read more

Applications are due October 23, 2024! Read more

An article in Berkeley News highlighting the work of Damon Young. Read more

We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2023-2024!  Read more

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

Congratulations to Yeonhee Choi! 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 premiere conferences in their field. Read more

Check out the work of our students, faculty, and alumni at SCMS 2024! Read more

Minh Anh Van reflects on her experience as the inaugural BCNM AAPI Media Creatives Fellow! Read more

BCNM is proud to highlight Hannah Zeavin and Nicholaus Gutierrez at The 14th annual conference of the Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and Society [SIGCIS]. Read more

Jacob Gaboury has published a review of  Uncomputable: Play and Politics in the Long Digital Age by Alexander R. Galloway Read more

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

The Ballad of Morton Hellig: On VR's Mythic Past was published in JCMS Journal! Read more

Harry Burson presented his paper, "“Metaverse, Multiverse, Server-verse: Fantasies of Control and Connection”, at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) annual conference. Read more

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

SCMS recently announced the winners, including our own alum Bo Ruberg! 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

Alumni Katherine Chandler, Alenda Chang, and Lashon Daley featured their research at MLA 2023. Read more

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

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

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

Vincente presented "life is like a party shawty: Teezo Touchdown on Respectability, Quality, and Representation" at the Silly Media conference at the University of Chicago. Read more

Lina Matine worked with Harry Burson on his research into the development of “Ambisonics". 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

The Timothy Shary prize for Best Essay published in Children’s and Youth Media is awarded by The Children and Youth Media Special Interest Group at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Read more

Amazing BCNM representation from students, faculty, and alumni at SCMS 2022! Read more

Alum Bo Ruberg joins Christopher Patterson, Aaron Trammell, and Kishonna Gray to discuss the diverse and not always harmless ways that pleasure moves us in and through play. Read more

Bo Ruberg's Trans Games Studies has been published in University of Michigan's Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Read more

Congratulations to Lina Matine, Akemi Nagashiki, and Abigail Lomibao! Read more

BCNM alumn Andrea Horbinksi reviews Japan's Green Monsters: Environmental Commentary in Kaiju Cinema in H-Net Reviews' December 2021 edition. Read more

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

Bo Ruberg gave the First Forum 2021 Graduate Student Conference Keynote address on October 21, 2021. Read more

BCNM alum Bo Ruberg has been promoted to Associate Professor at UC Irvine! Read more

Congratulations to Nicholaus Gutierrez who will be teaching cinema and media studies this year at Wellesley. Read more

Jacob published De La Pauvreté, De L'Image Riche in LA HAUTE ET LA BASSE DÉFINITION DES IMAGES: Photographie, cinéma, art contemporain, culture visuelle. Read more

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

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

Kate Mattingly recently wrote about ballet company BalletX in the Classical Review. Read more

Abigail De Kosnik recently wrote an article for Wired titled "2021 Will Launch the Platinum Age of Piracy." Read more

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

DE Malika Imhotep pens an essay about Barry Jenkins' If Beale Street Could Talk and relates it back to author James Baldwin's admiration for Black Feminist Abolitionists.  Read more

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

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

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

Alum Bo Ruberg was a guest on YouTube channel, Team LFG  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

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

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

Can video games help raise awareness about ecological causes? Alum Alenda Chang weighs in on the debate in a recent Le Monde article on video games and environmentalism. 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

KC Forcier presented “Endless Images: Looped Media, Digital Temporality, and the Gallery" at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference. 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

Tory presented "Body/Camera: Viewing Raw Images of Policing through the Lens of Early Film" at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies annual conference.  Read more

As a 2019 Geddes Fellow, Nicholas will offer a lecture on March 27th on Fashioning the idle gaze. 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 Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by thirteen BCNM students, faculty, and alumni! Read more

Mechademia focuses on Japanese popular culture, and the isuse will detail "Transnational Fandoms." Read more

This summer, learn how to critically analyze and help shape developments in new media. Read more

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

Jacob Gaboury weighs in on movies that are adjusted to the brain waves of viewers. Read more

Alum Andrea Horbinski presented "A Children's Empire: The Prewar 'Media Mix' of the Kodansha Club Magazines" at the Mechademic Kyoto conference. Read more

The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to two of New Media's most outstanding students. Read more

Alum Kris Paulsen has received the prestigious Anne Friedberg Award for Innovative Scholarship from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) 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

Justin Berner presented paper "Waking up to a World in Color" for Happiness Conference at NYU. Read more

Niemeyer is hosting a Media Inclusion & Innovation course DJ Spooky Read more

The Society for Cinema and Media Studies held its 2017 Conference at the Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park Read more

The third and final installment of Henry Jenkins' interview series with BCNM professor Gail de Kosnik has now been published Read more

Prof. Saum-Pascual was selected as a finalist in the Relaxation Machine competition Read more

Featuring Kristen Whissel (UC Berkeley), Andrew Utterson (Ithaca College), Jordan Schonig (University of Chicago) Read more

BCNM turned ten! Read more

BCNM is proud to announce the recipients of its Summer 2015 Research Awards! Read more

Bonnie will be teaching and conducting research under the guidance of game industry veterans Read more

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

“I think everyone enjoys a nice murder, provided he is not the victim.” ~Alfred Hitchcock Read more

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

Congratulations to all! Read more

Join us for lunch and conversation with artist Walter Kim at the Berkeley Institute of Design Read more