[Air-L] Meme Tracking

[Giorgia Castellano]

"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."

Well, memes are not important only if you have never set foot on the
internet in the last 10 years. They are all talking about internet memes
which have almost nothing in commong with biology-derived memes. Those blog
entries are from 2010 which in Internet years counts as 100 years of
evolution.

so http://imgur.com/gallery/PZRWvjd


Cheers,




Giorgia Castellano
M.A. Hamburg University
Erasmus Mundus in Journalism, Media and Globalisation

2017-06-10 21:06 GMT+02:00 David Stodolsky <dss at secureid.net>:

> 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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