[Air-L] Meme Tracking

Mon Jun 12 00:26:31 PDT 2017

Dr J W Unger
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On 12 Jun 2017, 08:13 +0100, Alexander Halavais <alex at halavais.net>, wrote:
https://www.wordnik.com/img/humptydumpty.png

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// Alexander Halavais, Sociologist, Semiologist, and Saboteur Extraordinaire
// Director of the MA in Social Technologies, Arizona State University
// http://alex.halavais.net/bio @halavais

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 8:11 PM, Jean Burgess <je.burgess at qut.edu.au> wrote:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3572/3685762238_8843196b53.jpg

On 11/6/17, 5:21 am, "Air-L on behalf of Robert W Gehl" <
air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of lists at robertwgehl.org> wrote:

I am not a meme scholar, but I think there is quite a bit of validity
in
taking seriously what people do on the Internet, as well as how they
describe their own activities. One of those things they do is traffic
in
something they refer to as "memes." Perhaps all of those people who
refer to those objects as "memes" are out of their depths in their
understanding of social science, and yet they continue to make, share,
and take meaning from these things called "memes." I have no advice for
meme tracking, but I do have advice for studying them: do so, because
they are part of human activity that matters, whether the word is right
or wrong.

See:
https://ixquick-proxy.com/do/spg/show_picture.pl?l=english&
rais=1&oiu=http%3A%2F%2F68.media.tumblr.com%2F654ddf051c94d4c099a3a9664100
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7268cc951930ae53482a81dbdbbd07f1

- Rob Gehl

On 06/10/2017 01:06 PM, David Stodolsky wrote:
Once you fall into Newspeak, like “meme,” you have already
sacrificed your rationality on the altar of market fundamentalism:

http://cosmism.blogspot.dk/2011/07/artificial-ape.html

http://cosmism.blogspot.dk/2010/12/memes-selfish-genes-
and-darwinian.html

http://cosmism.blogspot.dk/2010/02/what-darwin-got-wrong.html

http://cosmism.blogspot.dk/2016/02/richard-selfish-gene-
dawkins-has.html

Margaret-thatcher: "And, you know, there's no such thing as society.
There are individual men and women and there are families" in an interview
in Women's Own in 1987
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/apr/08/margaret-
thatcher-quotes

“Meme” is the same idea expressed by a zoologist, who is out of his
depth in social science.
He continues to be a fanatical opponent of group selection, when it
comes to genes.

As the refs below show, the term meme has no validity.
Rumor propagation and the spread of innovative ideas has a long
history of study in social science.

dss

On 8 Jun 2017, at 15:05, Thomas Ball <xtc283 at gmail.com> wrote:

A couple of years ago IARPA (https://www.iarpa.gov/) opened up a
thread
exploring the use of open source indicators (OSIs) for prediction
and
forecasting of unknown potential future events and threats. OSIs are
basically text and keywords. In reaching out to the IARPA organizer
of the
discussion, links were requested to papers on the topic. The link
below was
his response. Note that this IARPA thread came shortly after the
so-called
'Arab Spring.' Thus, the papers reflect thinking of that vintage.

D12PC00337 OR D12PC00285 OR D12PC00347 - Google Scholar
<https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=D12PC00337+OR+
D12PC00285+OR+D12PC00347

D12PC00337 OR D12PC00285 OR D12PC00347 - Google Scholar

<https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=D12PC00337+OR+
D12PC00285+OR+D12PC00347

On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 4:33 AM, Tanis Grandison <
tanis.grandison at me.com
wrote:

Hi All,

I was wondering if anyone could offer any advice (and useful
reading ) on
tracking Memes.
Specifically, I am wondering if there is a way I can take a meme
and look
at how it has spread and been shared on different social media?

I wouldn’t be doing it in real time, more looking back at
significant
events and how political memes transcended networks and flowed
through
social media.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Tanis Grandison
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