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andrewduckerA few people have wondered what a meme is - the word does keep popping up on LJ, after all.
A meme is the idea equivalent of a gene. It's a unit of information that replicates from person to person. Good memes are ones that survive, bad memes die out quickly. Some memes spread extremely quickly but die after a short while (the quizzes that pass through the whole of LJ in a few days and then vanish), others take years to grab a person but never let go (religions tend to be like this).
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A meme is the idea equivalent of a gene. It's a unit of information that replicates from person to person. Good memes are ones that survive, bad memes die out quickly. Some memes spread extremely quickly but die after a short while (the quizzes that pass through the whole of LJ in a few days and then vanish), others take years to grab a person but never let go (religions tend to be like this).
More here.
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Memes
Date: 2003-05-20 06:26 am (UTC)Blackmore, S (1999) The Meme Machine Oxford University Press
Re: Memes
Date: 2003-05-20 06:40 am (UTC)