[Air-L] Meme Tracking

[David Stodolsky]

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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David Stodolsky, PhD                   Institute for Social Informatics
Tornskadestien 2, st. th., DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark
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