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

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

Application deadline: February 7, 2025 Read more

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

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 pre-proceedings (NeurIPS 2023) Read more

Kimiko Ryokai and team awarded $1.29M to center Indigenous youth in museum spaces Read more

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

Eric Rawn, Morgan Ames, and Jacob Gaboury were featured in SIGCIS 2022:UNDER CONSTRUCTION. Read more

Elon University published a report on "The Future of the Metaverse," featuring BCNM experts. Read more

Where did the One Laptop Per Child project go wrong? Morgan Ames gives some answers. Read more

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

Women in AI Ethics recognizes BCNM faculty and alumni in their list of honors, including Jenna Burrell, Morgan Ames, danah boyd, and Michelle Carney! Read more

Please join us in welcoming our 2021 Undergraduate Certificate cohort! Read more

BCNM executive commitee member Jenna Burrell has been promoted to full professor at UC Berkeley's School of Information.  Read more

We extend a warm welcome to Professor Jenna Burrell, who has joined BCNM's executive committee. Read more

BCNM member and School of Information professor David Bamman co-published a paper titled, "Characterizing English Variation across Social Media Communities with BERT." Read more

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

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

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

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Stephanie Tang received a BCNM Undergraduate Research Fellowship to work on Speculating the Smart City under the mentorship of Noura Howell. Read more

BCNM was thrilled to co-sponsor this School of Information conversation about the challenges and opportunities created by the rise of big data. Read more

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

The University of Ghana hosted IC Africa with the theme African Digital Cultures: Emerging Research, Practices and Innovations. 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

BCNM alum Christo Sims' book, Disruptive Fixation: School Reform and the Pitfalls of Techno-Idealism​, was given the 2018 CITAMS Book Award. Read more

Ken Goldberg attended the annual Executive Leadership Conference to discuss Can Robots Really Handle Consumer Packaged Goods?. Read more

Ken Goldberg was recently invited by the University of Michigan to give a talk on the campus about his previous work and research. Read more

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

Watch the Reply All conference speakers discuss how various spaces, physical and digital, demand different responses and protections for free speech. The video is now available for public viewing on Youtube.  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

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

The Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research has a new chairperson! Read more

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

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

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

Congratulations to this year's Summer Research Award recipients! Each student will receive $1,000 of summer assistance to support their research initiatives. Read more

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

Coye is an Associate Professor at the School of Information and a longtime member of the Berkeley Center for New Media Executive Committee Read more

Berkeley Center for New Media is pleased to award fellowships for research on new media scholarship in Summer 2013 to five Designated Emphasis students Read more