Berkeley Center for New Media

The Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) is a focal point for research and teaching about new media.

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Applications for Summer 2026 Research Awards are now available! BCNM is awarding several fellowships of $1,000 and $500 to be used towards your graduate summer research. These fellowships are open to New Media graduate students only.
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The Peter Lyman Graduate Fellowship in New Media is now open for applications from a UC Berkeley Ph.D. candidate to support dissertation writing!
https://t.co/ihacTInXlC

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BCNM is thrilled to welcome Aaron Fai ("fay") / 費頌倫 as our new Associate Director! Fai will serve as BCNM's chief administrative officer, providing critical leadership and continuity for the Center.
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BCNM faculty Alex Saum-Pascual presented Traceroute Poems, segundo viaje at cultr_ALH, a site-specific poetic performance linking fiber-optic networks and the Alhambra’s historic flows of light, water, and energy.
https://t.co/0GoDGLxVk1

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BCNM's Undergraduate Certificate in New Media introduces students to the changing new media landscape. Fall 2025 applications are due November 1, 2025!
https://t.co/vUpuPv5MO3

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BCNM's Graduate Certificate in New Media provides Master's students with an ensuing competitive edge for some of the most desirable jobs in industry and academia. Fall 2025 applications are due November 1, 2025!
https://t.co/S4S7vcEZva

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BCNM’s Designated Emphasis (D.E.) program is for selected UC Berkeley Ph.D. students from any Berkeley home department with research interests in new media. Fall 2025 applications are due November 1, 2025!
https://t.co/gcLmquXXQh

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We’re proud to share this year’s collection of publications from the BCNM community, spanning July 2024 – June 2025. This round-up showcases the extraordinary breadth of research, creativity, and scholarship produced by our students, alumni, and faculty!
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Alex Saum-Pasucal received a BCNM Faculty Seed Grant for exploring the material realities and environmental impact of digital infrastructures through an immersive, art-driven AI tour.
https://t.co/KOpEaxUka6

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We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Zina Wang presented on the ceremonial destruction of epidemic-related personal data at the 2025 Modern Language Association Convention in New Orleans.
https://t.co/GMhwJjzjss

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We're so pleased to provide undergraduate research opportunities! Fizzah Kayani worked with Arianna Khmelniuk on a project examining how scent-related language in film reflects and reinforces power dynamics, ideologies, and binary oppositions.
https://t.co/5CplbrIw7G

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We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Lee Crandall presented "Plotting Cryptoeconomic Imaginaries and Counterplotting the Network State" at the AAG Annual Meeting in Detroit, Michigan.
https://t.co/wR6qQ58jkG

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We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Yangyang Yang presented her paper on Mobile Augmented Reality Experience at the ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
https://t.co/OVTqZHFBdu

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We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Connie Gu presented on Mobile Technology and Teens at the Association for Computing Machinery CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
https://t.co/FHMt7YJWC9

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The Berkeley Center for New Media’s Spring 2025 Critical Making course culminated in an inspiring public showcase titled Fashioning Fashionables. Art by Diana Bolanos, Christy Huang, Lydia Millhon, Hailey Pemberton, and Sasha Suggs.
https://t.co/cBj0negKWe

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The students of Nicole Starosielski's FILM 155 have been tackling digital infrastructure! Join the Internet Explorers to discover more about the digital infrastructure at the heart of our networked lives.
https://t.co/X6o2EcCWle

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We're so pleased to provide undergraduate research opportunities! McKenzie Diep worked with Maria Pettis on Bottomlands: Mapping Black Cemeteries in the Mid-South.
https://t.co/iBiqLhB0zp

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We are proud to announce that BCMM students Tamara Jamil and Alexis Wood have been awarded the 2025 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Scholarship!
https://t.co/tSp1bmTSIA

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We're so pleased to provide undergraduate research opportunities! Yuqi Tian worked with Yangyang Yang on a project exploring anthropocentric worldview's contribution to environmental degradation.
https://t.co/ytCTxliZtc

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BCNM is excited to support more community engaged projects. Greg Niemeyer and Emma Fraser were awarded a grant of $5,000 a year for three years to fund their work with We the People of Detroit.
https://t.co/TGJ79yEIoj