Marianne van den Boomen

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Marianne Veronika Theresa van den Boomen (born November 28, 1955 in The Hague ; † November 5, 2014 in Utrecht ) was a Dutch psychologist, political scientist and author. She worked and published in the field of new media and digital culture and was considered an internet pioneer.

Life

Van den Boomen grew up in Gouda and studied psychology at Utrecht University and political science in Amsterdam (other sources: Utrecht).

After graduating, she worked from the early 1980s for Marge, a critical trade journal for welfare work. Here in 1985 she ensured that the magazine was produced digitally for the first time - and one of the first in the Netherlands. As early as 1984/1985 she published for the first time on information technology in connection with social work . Van den Boomen later worked for the Tijdschrift voor de Sociale Sector and the Welzijnsweekblad , before starting in 1990 as editor, journalist and web designer for the political weekly magazine De Groene Amsterdammer . In 1994 she was the first print medium in the Netherlands to develop the website, including the paper's online archive, "even before the editors themselves even had internet access". She also worked for the quarterly De Helling of the GroenLinks party's scientific office . In the 1990s, Marianne van den Boomen had a daughter.

During this time, she regularly took part in hacker conventions and was part of the scene around the hacker magazine Hack-Tic . In 1994 she was also involved in the Digital City project in Amsterdam, the first virtual community and first free internet initiative in the Netherlands.

Her publications and magazine articles, among others for the civil society Instituut voor Publiek en Politiek, dealt with internet culture and online communities in the following years.

Since 2003 she has taught and researched at the Faculty for New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Utrecht. Shortly before her death, she did her doctorate there in spring 2014 with a thesis on the use of metaphors in new media. She died in November of the same year after a long illness at the age of 58.

Publications (selection)

  • with Don Olthof: De elektroniese welzijnswerker . De witte studentenpers, 1985 (Dutch).
  • with Carla Biemans, Lenie Janssen: Community work in women's hands . Ed .: STERN, Society of Cautious Urban Renewal, Berlin. DNB  871176858 (Dutch: Opbouwwerk in vrouwenhanden . Utrecht 1983.).
  • with Jos van der Lans: Schrijfwerk. A handleiding voor de non-profitsector . 1991, ISBN 90-313-1200-2 (Dutch).
  • Hackers all land ...! In: De Groene Amsterdammer . (published there in abbreviated form). August 1993 ( online via boom.home.xs4all.nl ).
  • Instituut voor Publiek en Politiek (ed.): Internet ABC voor vrouwen: een inleiding voor datadames en modemmeiden . Amsterdam 1995, ISBN 90-6473-306-6 (Dutch).
  • Instituut voor Publiek en Politiek (ed.): Leven op het net: de sociale betekenis van virtuele gemeenschappen . Amsterdam 2000, ISBN 90-6473-389-9 (Dutch).
  • Hacking Barbie in gendered computer culture . In: Rosemarie Buikema, Liedeke Plate, Kathrin Thiele (eds.): Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture . Routledge, 2009, ISBN 978-1-134-00640-3 .
  • Institute of Network Cultures (Ed.): Transcoding the digital: how metaphors matter in new media . Dissertation. Amsterdam 2014, ISBN 978-90-818575-7-4 (English).

Editing

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b In memoriam Marianne van den Boomen. In: uu.nl. Utrecht University, November 24, 2014, accessed November 30, 2019 (Dutch).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Xandra Schutte, Antoine Verbij: Marianne van den Boomen, November 28, 1955 - November 5, 2014. In: groene.nl. De Groene Amsterdammer, November 12, 2014, accessed November 30, 2019 (Dutch).
  3. ↑ a b c Jos van der Lans: Bij het afscheid van Marianne van den Boomen . November 11, 2014 ( josvdlans.nl [PDF]).
  4. ↑ 1984 Electronic welzijnswerker Digitalisering van hulpverlening. In: canonsociaalwerk.eu. June 7, 2009, accessed November 30, 2019 (Dutch).
  5. ↑ (De Groene Amsterdammer). Oldest web archive version. March 27, 1997, accessed November 30, 2019 (Dutch).
  6. ↑ Eighth the Web: Internet ontwerpers. Marianne van den Boomen. In: retro.nrc.nl. NRC Handelsblad, February 17, 1998, accessed November 30, 2019 (Dutch).
  7. ↑ 1994: Start DDS & Interface DDS1.0. In: hart.amsterdam.nl. November 9, 2013, accessed November 30, 2019 (Dutch).
  8. ↑ a b c Transcoding the digital: how metaphors matter in new media (=  Theory on demand . No. 14 ). Institute of Network Cultures, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2014, ISBN 978-90-818575-7-4 ( oclc.org [accessed November 30, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Boomen, Marianne van den
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boomen, Marianne Veronika Theresa van den (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch psychologist, political scientist and author
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH The hague
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 2014
Place of death Utrecht