06 Oct, 2025 Global Digital Infrastructure Connected Resilience: Experiences of Meaningful Connectivity in the Global Majority World with Sonia Jorge Founder and Executive Director, Global Digital Inclusion Partnership A Building a Global, Equitable, and Just Internet Infrastructure event Read more
14 Mar, 2022 Art, Tech & Culture The Right to Be Creative with Margarita Kuleva National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg Rescheduled from Spring 2020 Co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, the Department of the History of Art, the Arts Research Center, and the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities. Read more
01 Oct, 2021 Workshops Refamiliarization: Day 3 Bread Symphony Workshop with Katya Rozanova, Emily Saltz, Ashley Lewis, and Max Horwich Read more
30 Sep, 2021 Special Events Refamiliarization: Day 2 Event with Edgar Fabián Frías and short film screenings Read more
29 Sep, 2021 Special Events Refamiliarization: Day 1 Curator tour, exhibition opening, performance, and screening Read more
28 Sep, 2021 Special Events Refamiliarization The New Media Working Group presents a week-long show of artworks that speculate on practices and technologies that interrupt the habituation compelled by COVID-era domestic data extraction and quotidian mediations. Read more
26 Feb, 2020 Special Events The Revolution That Wasn’t: How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives with Jen Schradie Assistant Professor, Observatoire Sociologique du Changement (OSC) at Sciences Po Co-Sponsored by CITRIS and the Banatao Institute Read more
27 Jan, 2020 Art, Tech & Culture Dancing with Robots: Expressivity in Natural and Artificial Systems with Amy LaViers Robotics, Automation, and Dance (RAD) Lab Co-sponsored by the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) Read more
23 Apr, 2019 Special Events DataEDGE 2019 The DataEDGE conference at UC Berkeley brings together senior industry and academic leaders for a conversation about the challenges and opportunities created by the rise of big data. Read more
12 Feb, 2019 Special Events DataEDGE 2019 The DataEDGE conference at UC Berkeley brings together senior industry and academic leaders for a conversation about the challenges and opportunities created by the rise of big data. Read more
05 Dec, 2018 Special Events Critical Practices 2018 Showcase See the great projects of Critical Practices at the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation Winter Showcase! Read more
16 Apr, 2018 Art, Tech & Culture Abolition Feminisms with Angela Davis Activist and Professor, CA interviewed by Leigh Raiford, Assoc. Professor of African American Studies and Malika Imhotep, PhD Candidate in African American Studies and Designated Emphasis in New Media A 2018 Regents Lecture Read more
17 Oct, 2017 History & Theory Between the Digital and the Political: New Ecologies of Mind with Erich Hörl and Yuk Hui Panel Discussion with Luciana Parisi, David Bates & Warren Sack with support from the Townsend Center and the Dean of Arts and Humanities Read more
08 May, 2017 Special Events DataEdge Conference Leading experts will discuss ways in which organizations are addressing issues at large in our fast-changing social environment. Read more
13 Apr, 2017 History & Theory Technology and Forensic Evidence: Chilean Human Rights Investigations with Eden Medina Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing, Affiliated Associate Professor of Law, and Adjunct Associate Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington Read more
01 Mar, 2017 Commons Conversations Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life with Adam Greenfield, information architect and designer Read more
11 Feb, 2017 Special Events Greg Niemeyer on Hippie Modernisms at BAMPFA Prof. Niemeyer on the latest exhibition Read more
13 Nov, 2014 History & Theory Cold War Multimedia: The Democratic Surround An HTNM lecture by Fred Turner, Associate Professor of Communication at Stanford University Read more
04 Oct, 2014 Art, Tech & Culture Embodying Liberation: A Dialogue on Community and Healing A lecture by Brett Cook, Read more
02 Oct, 2014 History & Theory Cloud Policy A lecture by Jennifer Holt (Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at UCSB) this October, held at Stephens Hall Read more
23 Oct, 2013 Special Events Creating Minds: An Academic Conference on Reading and Writing in the Digital Age
06 Sep, 2011 History & Theory Technology as the Architect of our Intimacies with Sherry Turkle -- pioneering technologist; professor, author, consultant, researcher and licensed clinical psychologist Read more
16 Mar, 2011 Special Events Crossing Boundaries: News, Technology, & Audiences Speakers from across UC Berkeley departments on social media and journalism. Read the distinguished roster in full here. Read more
12 May, 2026 Announcing BCNM's Spring 2026 Conference Grant Recipients 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
12 May, 2026 Announcing Our Summer 2026 Research Award Recipients Congratulations to our 2026 Summer Research Award recipients from Music, Geography, Information Science, Spanish & Portuguese, Art Practice, German, Rhetoric, School of Information, Computer Science, and EECS. Read more
30 Apr, 2025 Announcing BCNM's Spring 2025 Conference Grant Recipients 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
25 Oct, 2024 Summer Research Reports: Caleb Murray-Bozeman on Mapping Union Square BCNM is thrilled to support our students in their summer research. Read about Caleb Murray-Bozeman on Mapping Union Square! Read more
19 Apr, 2024 Ken Goldberg and Catie Cuan's Breathless Reviewed in Forbes Teaching Machines To Be Human, And Humans To Live With Machines, an article by Benjamin Wolff. Read more
04 Apr, 2024 BCNM Around the Web Spring 24 Check out our faculty and alumni around the web this Spring, 2024! Read more
29 Jan, 2024 danah boyd on Data Impact What is data science? How did we get to this point? And how will we use data science in the near and distant future? Read more
30 Nov, 2023 Announcing Our Fall 2023 DE & Certificate Cohort Haya Constellation Altar, 2019, Arianna Khmelniuk Read more
18 Sep, 2023 Announcing Our Fall 2023 Class Grants We are pleased to Support Alex Saum-Pascual, Lisa Wymore, and Jacob Gaboury's courses. Read more
12 Jun, 2023 Nicholaus Gutierrez on VR's Mythic Past The Ballad of Morton Hellig: On VR's Mythic Past was published in JCMS Journal! Read more
13 Mar, 2023 Announcing the Spring 2023 Conference Grant Recipients 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
13 Mar, 2023 Announcing Our Spring 2023 DE & Certificate Cohort Image credit: Karthika Baiju. Read more
17 Nov, 2022 Jacob Gaboury Awarded 2022 Computer History Museum Prize Congratulations to Jacob Gaboury for receiving the 2022 Computer History Museum Prize! Read more
30 Aug, 2022 Summer Research Report: William Morgan Read about William's work across the globe, from cybernetics to AI in science fiction! Read more
18 Aug, 2022 Lyman Report: Julia Irwin Julia's dissertation is titled "Patterning Recognition: A History of Automated Visual Perception." Read more
16 Aug, 2022 Announcing Our Fall 2022 Class Grants We're pleased to support Tom McEnaney's course on Sounding American. Read more
14 May, 2022 The Illusion of Digital Democracy with Jen Schradie In this short teaser for her book, The Revolution That Wasn't, Jen Schradie asks whether the internet is conservative. Read more
11 May, 2022 Jen Schradie on How Technology Favors the Powerful Grégoire Barbey intervews alum Jen Schradie for Heidi.news on how the internet is dominated by conservative ideology. Read more
19 Apr, 2022 Algorithms Adore Extreme Right Content Jen Schradie demonstrates that the Web benefits conservative messages. Read more
31 Mar, 2022 Jen Schradie on the 2022 Elections Olivier Clairouin interviews Jen Schradie for Le Monde on whether the Right has won the fight for the internet in advance of the 2022 elections. Read more
28 Mar, 2022 Not a TikTok War Ukrainians are rallying global support via social media. But don’t call it a TikTok war, writes alum Jen Schradie for the Washington Post. Read more
23 Mar, 2022 Announcing Our Spring 2022 DE & Certificate Cohort Secondary Gaze, by Jiaxuan Ren. Read more
11 Feb, 2022 Hannah Zeavin Interviews Hannah Black Hannah discusses Black's novella on the pandemic, anti-police riots, love, and aliens. Read more
11 Dec, 2021 Ken Goldberg Featured in the San Francisco Examiner Veronica Irwin introduces the Berkeley professor who’s helping robots get a grip. Read more
09 Dec, 2021 BCNM at 4S 2021 Amazing representation of BCNM presenting at 4S, the Society for Social Studies of Science! Read more
04 Dec, 2021 Jen Schradie Interviewed on Why the Internet Favors the Right Listen to Jen Schradie in conversation with Xavier de la Porte on France Inter on Why the Internet Favors the Right. Read more
14 Oct, 2021 Rogue Archives Reviewed in S-USIH BCNM director Abigail De Kosnik's 2016 book Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom was reviewed by Michael J. Kramer of The Society for U.S. Intellectual History. Read more
13 Oct, 2021 Announcing the Fall 2021 Conference Grant Recipients Congratulations to these amazing students working on media literacy, ethnographic research, philosophical arguments, and more! Read more
25 Sep, 2021 BCNM Around the Web September 2021 Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this September! Read more
23 Aug, 2021 Ken Goldberg and a Roadmap for US Robotics Ken Goldberg co-authored the recently published "A Roadmap for US Robotics - From Internet to Robotics 2020 Edition". Read more
08 Feb, 2021 BCNM Around the Web February 2021 Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this February! Read more
08 Dec, 2020 Jen Schradie's The Revolution That Wasn't Reviewed in the American Journal of Sociology Jen Shradie's book was reviewed in the American Journal of Sociology! Read more
06 Nov, 2020 BCNM Around the Web November 2020 Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this November! Read more
18 Aug, 2020 BCNM Around the Web August 2020 Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this August! Read more
14 Aug, 2020 The Revolution That Wasn't Reviewed in Mass Communication & Society Jen Schradie's book receives a fantastic review from Briana Trifiro. Read more
07 Aug, 2020 Alex Saum-Pascual Publishes Digital Creativity as Critical Material Thinking The article is included in the Gathering: Electronic Literature [Frame]works for the Creative Digital Humanities. Read more
26 Jul, 2020 The Revolution that Wasn't Reviewed in the International Journal of Press/Politics Alum Jen Schradie's book receives a stunning review from David Karpf. Read more
30 Apr, 2020 Conference Grants: William Morgan on Machine Learning and the Digital Realization of Deleuze Read more
05 Apr, 2020 Video Now Online: Jen Schradie's The Revolution That Wasn't Video now available from BCNM alum Jen Schradie's CITRIS Research Exchange seminar 'The Revolution That Wasn't!' Read more
10 Mar, 2020 BCNM Around the Web March 2020 Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our students, faculty, and alumni in March 2020! Read more
04 Mar, 2020 Jen Schradie on The WELL Jen Schradie was the latest guest on the Inkwell: Authors and Artists online discussion board. Read more
20 Feb, 2020 BCNM Around the Web February 2020 Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our faculty and alumni in February 2020! Read more
20 Feb, 2020 Jen Schradie’s "The Revolution That Wasn’t" in LA Review of Books BCNM alum Jen Schradie's latest book receives an excellent review from Emily Drabinski in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Read more
05 Feb, 2020 Pop Matters Features Jen Schradie's The Revolution That Wasn't Schradie argues that the right conservative wing has more open access to the internet given the current regulations of digital platforms. Read more
31 Jan, 2020 Review of The Revolution That Wasn't in Inside Higher Ed Alum Jen Schradie's latest book receives an excellent review from Barbara Fister. Read more
02 Nov, 2019 BCNM Around the Web November 2019 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
22 Oct, 2019 Alum Jen Schradie Video on The Big Think If you've been wondering "Have conservative groups mastered the art of internet activism?", Jen Schradie has the answer! Read more
16 Oct, 2019 BCNM around the Web October 2019 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
01 Sep, 2019 BCNM around the Web September 2019 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
15 Aug, 2019 Jen Schradie's The Revolution That Wasn't Featured in the Washington Monthly Richard John's article "Why the Left Is Losing the Information Age" showcases Schradie's research on digital activism and inequality. Read more
13 Aug, 2019 Juliana Friend on Anthropology of/as Revolutionary Dreaming Juliana published her article in Cultural Anthropology as part of the series, Culture at Large 2018 with Robin Kelley. Read more
16 Jul, 2019 Jen Schradie on The Debate Alum Jen Schradie spoke on France 24 on whether Democrats can mobilize their base for 2020. Read more
09 Jul, 2019 Alum Jen Schradie Interviewed in Vox Vox talks to Jen about "Why conservatives are winning the internet." The Revolution That Wasn't explains why digital activism helps conservatives more than liberals. Read more
07 Jul, 2019 Interview with Alum Jen Schradie in the Indy and WUNC Jen discusses her book The Revolution That Wasn't in North Carolina, where much of her research was based. Read more
04 Jul, 2019 Jen Schradie's The Revolution that Wasn't in Wired Jen Schradie's The Revolution That Wasn't is featured in Wired's "14 Must-Read Books of the Summer." Read more
25 Jun, 2019 Alum Jen Schradie on Conservatives' Use of Social Media to Move Their Agendas Jen Schradie published "Conservatives Use Social Media to Move Their Agendas Much More Than Liberals Do" in Newsweek. Read more
19 Jun, 2019 Alum Jen Schradie at OECD 2019 Forum Jen's panel focused on People-Power vs. Populism. Read more
04 Apr, 2019 Alum Jen Schradie at Le Númerique Peut Il Réinventer La Démocratie Join Jen Schradie on April 16, 2019 at 5pm at the Sciences Po symposium! Read more
15 Mar, 2019 Alum Jen Schradie at #ecnEHESS Alum Jen Schradie presents her new book at #ecnEHESS at l'Institut des Systèmes Complexes Read more
12 Mar, 2019 Alum Jen Schradie Presents Research at Sciences Po If you're in Paris on Thursday, March 14th, join Jen Schradie for a discussion on digital activism! Read more
09 Mar, 2019 DexNet 4.0 in the DailyCal The DailyCal features Ken Goldberg and team's DexNet 4.0 Read more
07 Nov, 2018 Tom McEnaney Finalist for MSA First Book Prize Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas (University of Illinois Press, 2017) by Tom McEnaney made it onto the short list for the First Book Prize. Read more
30 Aug, 2018 Alum Jen Schradie Appointed as Asst Professor at the Sciences Po BCNM Alum Jen Schradie was appointed an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) Read more
21 Aug, 2018 Tom McEnaney Launches GloUH Colloquium Join Tom McEnaney on August 28th as he discusses Wireless Commons and Counterpublics: New Digital Infrastructures in Cuba! Read more
13 Aug, 2018 The Daily Cal Features Ken Goldberg's Dex-Net The Dexterity-Network from AutoLab gets a well-deserved feature in the Daily Cal. Read more
23 Jul, 2018 Alum Andrea Horbinski Teaching at Sirens 2018 Join alum Andrea Horbinski to discuss transitioning out of academia at Sirens 2018! Read more
09 Jul, 2018 Yairamaren Roman Maldonado at the LASA 2018 Conference Yaira presented "Portable memory, on/offline cultures and transgressions to the nation in Jorge E. Lage’s Archivo." Read more
20 Jun, 2018 Alum Trevor Paglen in Time Magazine's "How Drones are Revolutionizing Art" Time magazine explores how drones are altering our perspective and fundamentally changing the terms of art. Read more
18 Apr, 2018 Alum Trevor Paglen in SF Weekly Trevor Paglen, UC Berkeley Geography PhD and 2017 MacArthur “genius” fellow, was featured in SF Weekly for his "Satellite of Love." Read more
11 Apr, 2018 ATC Revisited: Irena Haiduk Graduate ATC Liaison, KC Forcier, revisits Irena Haiduk's ATC Lecture that took place last month. Read more
11 Apr, 2018 Ken Goldberg at Em Tech Digital 2018 Ken Goldberg delivered a presentation at this year's EmTech Digital at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco. Read more
23 Feb, 2018 David Bates Presents Annual Straker Lecture at UBC 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
06 Feb, 2018 Ken Goldberg and Dex-Net in Technology Review Ken Goldberg and Dex-Net 2.0 was featured in Technology Review's round up of 2017 robots. Read more
02 Feb, 2018 Alum Jen Schradie at UCB BCNM Alum Jen Schradie gave a talk, "The Digital Activism Gap: Social Media, Social Movements and Social Class," at Cal! Read more
02 Feb, 2018 Ken Goldberg on Multiplicity in Wired Goldberg was featured in "Forget the Robot Singularity Apocalypse. Let's Talk about the Multiplicity" in Wired, on the rise of robot-human multiplicity. Read more
11 Jan, 2018 SRL Featuring Robots by Eric Paulos at Marlborough Contemporary and in the News Read more
05 Dec, 2017 Ken Goldberg on The Next Billion Seconds Ken Goldberg was featured on the podcast, The Next Ten Billion Seconds. Read more
28 Nov, 2017 Grace Gipson on Gwendolyn Brooks in Black Perspectives Grace Gipson penned a biography about Black poet laureate and committed activist Gwendolyn Brooks, celebrating the life and work she left behind. Read more
08 Nov, 2017 Ken Goldberg on CBS Local on AI and the Workforce Ken Goldberg is quoted by CBS Local in discussing the impact of artificial intelligence on the workforce. Read more
17 Oct, 2017 Greg Niemeyer in Open Codes Exhibition at ZKM Greg Niemeyer's work is being exhibited at ZKM in their Open Codes exhibit from October 20th 2017 to August 8th 2018. Read more
28 Sep, 2017 Eric Paulos' Hybrid Ecologies Lab in Forbes for Work with Adobe Eric Paulos is one of the researchers from the Hybrid Ecologies Lab at UC Berkeley working with Adobe on their new endeavors. Read more
18 Jul, 2017 Ken Goldberg's WSJ Article Quoted in Forbes Forbes draws from an article Professor Goldberg published earlier last month. Read more
24 May, 2017 Tom McEnaney Publishes Acoustic Property A new book exploring the prehistory of wireless culture from BCNM Alum Tom McEnany Read more
16 Mar, 2017 Commons Conversations Video Now Online: "Radical Technologies" with Adam Greenfield Read more
28 Feb, 2017 Announcing the 2017 Eugene Jarvis Innovation Scholarship Recipient The generous Eugene Jarvis Media Innovation Scholarship was awarded to this forward-thinking student. Read more
19 Jan, 2017 Ken Goldberg featured in Fast Company The BCNM professor and his research in Dex-Net was recently featured in the article "Why It's so Hard for Robots to Get a Grip" Read more
12 Dec, 2016 Take Note: New Robot Conference Chaired by Ken Goldberg We're excited to see this new conference on Robotic Learning co-chaired by Ken Goldberg! Read more
08 Nov, 2016 Nicholas de Monchaux at Drawing Futures Drawing Futures 2016 is a conference on "Speculations on Contemporary Drawing for Art and Architecture" taking place at the Bartlett School of Architecture Read more
26 Aug, 2016 Announcing the 2016-2017 History and Theory of New Media Season his year, we are pleased to include hands-on workshops in our program, as well as a partnership with the Rhetoric Department to offer a mini-symposium on the Anthropocene Read more
30 Jun, 2016 Laura Devendorf to Join ATLAS at CU Boulder Laura Devendorf is a PhD Candidate at the UC Berkeley School of Information Read more
12 May, 2016 Revisited: Critical Making Exhibition Critical Making students operationalize and critique the practice of making through both foundational literature and hands on studio culture Read more
12 May, 2016 Eric Paulos' CS 160 Interface Design Showcase Teams were challenged to design novel smartphone and smartwatch applications focused on health and medical themes Read more
15 Mar, 2016 Ken Goldberg Quoted in Rolling Stone A Rolling Stone article was recently published, featuring Ken Goldberg, artist + professor Read more
04 Aug, 2015 ArtReach Studio Residencies Applications Open ArtReach is a non-profit mobile arts organization that is reframing the artist residency Read more
29 Oct, 2013 Revisited: Creating Minds 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
29 Oct, 2013 Queerness and Games Conference Shoutout Spearheaded by Chris Goetz and Bonnie Ruberg Read more
03 Apr, 2013 Summer 2013 Course Offerings in New Media - Digital Activism, NWMEDIA 150AC Session A, May 28 - July 3, 2013 Read more
19 Jun, 2012 BCNM Student Awarded NSF Grant for Research on Digital Democracy and Social Movements The Sociology Program of the NSF awards grants that have "theoretically focused empirical investigation aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social processes" Read more
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions. Fall 2019
