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andrewducker) wrote2003-05-20 01:25 pm
andrewducker) wrote2003-05-20 01:25 pm
Meme
A 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).
More here.
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.
Memes
Blackmore, S (1999) The Meme Machine Oxford University Press
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