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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"meme"”.
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Meme transmission in artificial proto-cultures
… examine which factors affect the transmission of memes, in the form of sounds imitated back and forth between the robots, to determine which factors promote or inhibit meme diversity and spread.Meme theory posits that the development of cultural artifacts such as ideas, myths, religions, etc. …
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Design a Meme: Visual Representation, Creative Strategies and Memetic Culture
… a new visual form of expressioninternet memeshas emerged. Cultural memes develop in an extremely fascinating manner and have gradually become mainstream on social media. Memes have a significant impact on young people; the emerging visual culture may alter their perceptions of visual …
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From meme to memegraph: The curious case of Pepe the Frog and white nationalism
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It's All in a Meme: A Content Analysis of Memes Posted to 2012 Presidential Election Facebook Pages
… understand how Democrats and Republicans design memes, use traditional media framing, and how memes fit into modern humor theories. The study explores the relationship between the traditional media frames of the ideal candidate, populist campaigner, and the sure loser (Grabe & Bucy, 2009) and the …
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THE EMERGING MARKET OF MEME-NEWS: HOW POLITICAL INTERNET MEMES INFORM YOUNG ADULTS AND SHAPE THEIR POLITICAL OPINIONS
Nell'era digitale, i meme su Internet sono emersi come una modalità pervasiva di comunicazione online, influenzando significativamente il modo in cui l’informazione politica viene diffusa e fruita dalle persone. Questa dissertazione esplora il ruolo sfaccettato dei meme politici nell'informare le …
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“Meme, meu idioma”: os usos e apropriações de memes por nativos digitais para falar de política no cotidiano
… um dos fenômenos emergentes desse tempo: os memes. Partindo dos nativos digitais, também conhecidos como geração Z, buscamos entender as novas relações que os jovens estão construindo com a política brasileira no mundo contemporâneo.
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What does it all meme? : a look into gender stereotypes and traits in the 2016 presidential primary campaign.
This content analysis examines how social media memes portrayed presidential primary candidates during the 2016 United States presidential election. In the wake of Internet and social media evolutions in communications, memes of candidates have been added to the new paradigm of American political …
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A body and technology as meme: Durer's Draughtsman drawing a reclining nude, Herrenvolk, aesthetic surgery and an artist's digital studio practice
… the trajectory of a body and technology meme from 1525 through to the ideology of Herrenvolk in Nazi Germany, and then on to the default facial array underpinning contemporary aesthetic surgery of choice. The approach used to establish the uncanny parallels between two widely separated …
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Seizing the memes of production : political memes in Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican Diaspora
… in Puerto Rico and the diaspora deploy internet memes for political critique. In this work, I analyze three case studies focused on how Puerto Rican groups and individuals use internet memes to express political discontent, make calls to action, engage in catharsis, and seek political change. The …
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Agresyvus memų humoras: tariamas žinutės siuntėjas ir memo juokingumo bei agresyvumo vertinimas /
… new form of humour is rapidly spreading: online memes. Some of these memes are characterised by the image macro format (Shifman, 2014), and some of them are characterised by aggressive jokes (Knobel & Lankshear, 2019). Although, in a broader sense, much is already known about the aggressive …
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Memes to Cope and Communicate
… was to observe the benefits of creating meme imagery around the participant’s stressors and how it affected the participants’ mood. This mixed-method study also looked into the meme’s ability to communicate their experience of their stressor to others to test whether it would be useful in …
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Modeling Memes: A Memetic View of Affordance Learning
… model that would be useful for modeling meme evolution. First, a formal definition of memes was proposed that balanced both ontological adequacy and empirical observability. Based on this definition, a systems model for meme evolution was synthesized from Shannon Information Theory and …
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Survival of the Fittest: Persistent Memes and Their Victorian Environments
… looks at Victorian adaptations of three key memes--narratives that are inherited and changed through a process of cultural evolution--and the nineteenth century cultural-historical conditions that produced those changes. Instead of focusing on issues of fidelity to originals, I read literary …
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Meta-learning computational intelligence architectures
"In computational intelligence, the term 'memetic algorithm' has come to be associated with the algorithmic pairing of a global search method with a local search method. In a sociological context, a 'meme' has been loosely defined as a unit of cultural information, the social analog of genes for …
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Organisational phylogenesis : Developing and evaluating a memetic methodology.
… termed by evolutionist, Richard Dawkins, as the meme. The memetic position re-introduces many often neglected, sometimes shunned, evolutionary arguments into social and organisational debate by providing a naturalistic and plausible hereditary element upon which socio-cultural adaptation …
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PEPE’S POWER: INTERNET MEMES, CONSTITUTIVE RHETORIC, AND POLITICAL COMMUNITIES
Internet memes cannot be manufactured by any one individual. These artifacts are best defined as bodies of work that manufacture and distribute meaning online. Internet memes persuade politically-motivated individuals to join and stay together using common memetic logics. Using Limor Shifman’s …
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Because Potato
… internet’s least academic mode of knowing: the meme. Analyzing the potato alongside the meme allows us to discuss the role of the mundane among the proposed modes of investigation.</p>
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Evaluating memetics : A case of competing perspectives at an SME.
Memetics, which posits a cultural replicator similar to the gene in biology, has been proposed as a theory with which to study cultural phenomena such as organisations. However, much of the theory of memetics has been developed without empirical testing. Consequently, its application to …
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Betwixt the Popular and Academic: The Histories and Origins of Memetics
… this thesis I develop a contemporary history of memetics, or the field dedicated to the study of memes. Those working in the realm of meme theory have been generally concerned with developing either evolutionary or epidemiological approaches to the study of human culture, with memes viewed as …
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