[Air-L] Meme Tracking

[Jean Burgess]

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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%2F654ddf051c94d4c099a3a96641006159%2Ftumblr_optspwxfiH1vntq6no1_1280.png&sp=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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    > David Stodolsky, PhD                   Institute for Social Informatics
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