[Air-L] Meme Tracking

Mon Jun 12 00:31:05 PDT 2017

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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 Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 12:26 AM, Unger, Johann <j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk>
wrote:

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> *Dr J W Unger*
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> On 12 Jun 2017, 08:13 +0100, Alexander Halavais <alex at halavais.net>,
> wrote:
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> 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
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> On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 8:11 PM, Jean Burgess <je.burgess at qut.edu.au>
> wrote:
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> https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3572/3685762238_8843196b53.jpg
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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%2F654ddf051c94d4c099a3a9664100
> 6159%2Ftumblr_optspwxfiH1vntq6no1_1280.png&sp=
> 7268cc951930ae53482a81dbdbbd07f1
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> - Rob Gehl
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> On 06/10/2017 01:06 PM, David Stodolsky wrote:
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> 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
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> http://cosmism.blogspot.dk/2010/12/memes-selfish-genes-
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> and-darwinian.html
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> http://cosmism.blogspot.dk/2010/02/what-darwin-got-wrong.html
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> http://cosmism.blogspot.dk/2016/02/richard-selfish-gene-
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> dawkins-has.html
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>
>
> Margaret-thatcher: "And, you know, there's no such thing as society.
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> There are individual men and women and there are families" in an interview
> in Women's Own in 1987
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> https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/apr/08/margaret-
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> thatcher-quotes
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>
> “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.
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>
>
> dss
>
> On 8 Jun 2017, at 15:05, Thomas Ball <xtc283 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> A couple of years ago IARPA (https://www.iarpa.gov/) opened up a
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> thread
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> 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.
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> D12PC00337 OR D12PC00285 OR D12PC00347 - Google Scholar
> <https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=D12PC00337+OR+
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> D12PC00285+OR+D12PC00347
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>
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> D12PC00337 OR D12PC00285 OR D12PC00347 - Google Scholar
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>
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> <https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=D12PC00337+OR+
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> D12PC00285+OR+D12PC00347
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 4:33 AM, Tanis Grandison <
>
> tanis.grandison at me.com
>
> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks
> Tanis Grandison
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