1 : an idea, belief or belief system, or pattern of behavior that spreads throughout a culture either vertically by cultural inheritance (as by parents to children) or horizontally by cultural acquisition (as by peers, information media, and entertainment media)
2 : a pervasive thought or thought pattern that replicates itself via cultural means; a parasitic code, a virus of the mind especially contagious to children and the impressionable
3 : the fundamental unit of information, analogous to the gene in emerging evolutionary theory of culture - meme pool (n.) : all memes of a culture or individual - memetic (adj.) : relating to memes - memetics (n.) : the study of memes
4 : in blogspeak, an idea that is spread from blog to blog
5 : an internet information generator, especially of random or contentless information
(Etymology : meme : derived from the Greek mimema, 'something imitated', by Richard Dawkins in 1976)
Memes are those puzzles, pictures, quizzes and such that float around LJ. Some are fun, many are pointless. I thought I'd have fun with this one. It cost a kitten, but what the heck. LOL
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what happened to nine lives...
Date: 2005-02-18 12:39 pm (UTC)Re: what happened to nine lives...
Date: 2005-02-19 05:05 am (UTC)(noun)
1 : an idea, belief or belief system, or pattern of behavior that spreads throughout a culture either vertically by cultural inheritance (as by parents to children) or horizontally by cultural acquisition (as by peers, information media, and entertainment media)
2 : a pervasive thought or thought pattern that replicates itself via cultural means; a parasitic code, a virus of the mind especially contagious to children and the impressionable
3 : the fundamental unit of information, analogous to the gene in emerging evolutionary theory of culture
- meme pool (n.) : all memes of a culture or individual
- memetic (adj.) : relating to memes
- memetics (n.) : the study of memes
4 : in blogspeak, an idea that is spread from blog to blog
5 : an internet information generator, especially of random or contentless information
(Etymology : meme : derived from the Greek mimema, 'something imitated', by Richard Dawkins in 1976)
Re: what happened to nine lives...
Date: 2005-02-19 05:19 am (UTC)Re: what happened to nine lives...
Date: 2005-02-19 05:21 am (UTC)Re: what happened to nine lives...
Date: 2005-02-19 05:22 am (UTC)