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Inge Ploum

- MA New Media @ University of Amsterdam
- Research: mashing aesthetics and media philosophy to question every cultural object related to digital technology. Particular emphasis is placed on the construction of images of the future.
- Spare Time: founder Science Denied (http://www.sciencedenied.net), independent film director/producer, graphical artist & musician 'Die Samplemännchen' & 'Guitar & the Melodies'

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The (Dis)Appearance of Purpose

"The (Dis)appearance of Purpose” is dedicated to the significance of teleology in the study of human-computer behaviour by tracing the disappearance of the concept purpose. To demonstrate how we can think of purpose in order to understand our contemporary...
By Inge Ploum on 09/06/09 1

The Merger of Existence

Many challenges of new media theory are of such broad relevance to human concerns, and are so complex in their placement, that they have an enduring presence. Though new media studies has a relatively short history as a science,...
By Inge Ploum on 03/06/09 Comments Off on The Merger of Existence

Understanding Microblogs as Microworlds

The evolution of blogging has introduced another breed of blogs: the microblog. The microblog is a type of blogging that allows users to write compact messages and publish them. By comparing microblogging with the concept microworld, I’ve tried to...
By Inge Ploum on 10/11/08 2
Reassembling Social Networks

Reassembling Social Networks

Currently the massive public adoption of social software has changed our habitat and has created shifts in our behaviour. While we know how to behave in unmediated publics (for example we know what is expected from us when we...
By Inge Ploum on 10/05/08 1
Pushing the HOT100 Button @ PICNIC

Pushing the HOT100 Button @ PICNIC

In 2007 the Virtueel Platform started the HOT100. The HOT100 is a group of the most promising and successful new media talents in the Netherlands. It gives...
By Inge Ploum on 09/27/08 4

PICNIC 08 – ‘We Think’ by Charles Leadbeater

Today on Picnic Amsterdam, Charles Leadbeater (author of the book ' We Think' ) talked about the new dynamics of creativity and innovation using new media. Firstly, he briefly discussed the influence of the web by comparing...
By Inge Ploum on 09/24/08 4
Thinkmap’s Visual Thesaurus: Mapping Pre-defined Association

Thinkmap’s Visual Thesaurus: Mapping Pre-defined Association

Due to rapidly evolving technologies new information-gathering tools have been developed to support our ‘information retrieval needs’. Because times have changed, information retrieval systems will have to change too. The Virtual Thesaurus is an example of how an...
By Inge Ploum on 09/21/08 Comments Off on Thinkmap’s Visual Thesaurus: Mapping Pre-defined Association

Book Review: Carr’s The Big Switch

After his first bestseller “Does IT Matter?” Nicholas Carr wrote another well written book called “The Big Switch”. For those who never heard of Nicholas Carr: he is a US Internet...
By Inge Ploum on 09/14/08 1