Meme
idea, behavior or style that spreads within a culture
A meme (/miːm/ MEEM) is an idea or belief which spreads because one person copies it from another.
One idea is that culture builds in a way similar to living things. An example would be how viruses spread to different organisms. Memes change as they go, creating controversy, and sculpting society. Just as a virus would, memes evolve from their state, being photoshopped, and exaggerated. Memes can be about anything.
Biologist and evolutionary theorist Richard Dawkins invented the word meme in 1976.[1] He said that tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothing fashions, ways of making pots, and the technology of building arches were all examples of memes.
Examples of memes
- Technology: cars, paper-clips, etc. The progress of technology is a bit like genetics, because it has spread by 'mutations' or changes to progress. For example, many paper-clip designs have been made. Some last longer than others, and some look better than others. In the end the ones that are copied are a memetic success.
- Jokes spread and change the more they are told.
- Proverbs
- Gossip
- Nursery rhymes: passed on from parent to child over many generations (thus keeping old words such as "tuffet" and "chamber" popular when they are not used today).
- Epic poems: once important memes for preserving oral history; writing has largely superseded their oral transmission.
- Conspiracy theories
- Recipes
- Fashions
- Religions: complex memes, including folk religious beliefs, such as The Prayer of Jabez.
- Popular concepts: these include Freedom, Justice, Ownership, Open Source, Egoism, or Altruism
- Group-based biases: everything from anti-semitism and racism to cargo cults.
- Longstanding political memes such As "mob rule", national identity, Yes Minister and "republic, not a democracy".
- Programming paradigms: from structured programming and object-oriented programming to extreme programming.
- Internet phenomena: Internet slang. "Internet memes" propagate quickly among users using email, websites, blogs, discussion boards and other Internet communications as a medium.
- Moore's Law: this meme is particularly interesting. The original law was "semiconductor complexity doubles every 18 months". It described growth in terms of the number of transistors on a chip.
- Metameme: The concept of memes itself is a meme.
- Anecdotes: Short jokes or other stories.
- Phrases; and common expressions.
- Viral marketing: A type of marketing based on memes and using "word of mouth" to advertise (see the recent example of Snakes on a Plane).
- Chain-letters
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The English Wiktionary has a dictionary definition (meanings of a word) for: meme
- MemesJoke.com Archived 2020-06-30 at the Wayback Machine 4chan.org and Reddit.com, where memes and are distributed, to users of the internet.
- The Meme Machine, Interview of Susan Blackmore by Denis Failly
- Journal of Memetics Archived 2008-01-13 at the Wayback Machine
- The text of Dawkins' Selfish Gene, chapter 11, "Memes: the new replicators", in which Dawkins coined the word "meme"
- The Mocking Memes: A Basis for Automated Intelligence Archived 2019-06-14 at the Wayback Machine, a 2006 book on a memetic theory of mind.
- Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology Archived 2006-10-25 at the Wayback Machine by Jack Balkin which uses memes to explain the growth and spread of ideology.
- Why did the chicken cross the road? The story of a meme Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
- A short piece by Mike Godwin on memes in Wired Magazine.
- The Invasion of the Memes Archived 2015-03-08 at the Wayback Machine ─ memes as a useful metaphor, nothing more.
- What is a Meme? by Brent Silby ─ an introductory article pitched at a general audience.
- A discussion of memes Archived 2011-08-06 at the Wayback Machine by Deepak Chopra
- "Life cycles of successful genes" Archived 2015-12-26 at the Wayback Machine, 2003, Robert Hoffmann
- Memes.org ─ Just relaunched as a forum for discussion about memes and memetics.
- Dawkins's speech on the 30th anniversary of the publication of The Selfish Gene, Dawkins 2006
- "A Memetic Paradigm of Project Management"PDF,Whitty 2005
- The Evolution of Technology by Brent Silby ─ memetics used to explain human creativity.
- "Evolution and Memes: The human brain as a selective imitation device": article by Susan Blackmore.
- Dan Dennett discusses Memes: Video from Ted Talks - February 2002.
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