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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"memetics"”.
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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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Organisational phylogenesis : Developing and evaluating a memetic methodology.
… this geekish tendency has tarnished the idea of memetics and impeded serious academic investigation into the subject. A more rigorous philosophical treatment has been provided by Daniel Dennett who has argued that, while a science of memetic cladistics may be both desirable and feasible, it …
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Dreaming in whispering groves: an inquiry into the reader's response to the book as a published physical object with reference to the rise of the eighteenth century novel, modern critical theory and the processes and technologies of production, transmission and reception
… to reader-orientated theories is provided by Memetics. A relative newcomer to the critical scene which has evolved as a result of, and parallel to, the study of genetics. The purpose of this juxtaposition is that both Reader-orientated theories and Memetics are dependent upon the reading or …
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The role of the individual in organisational cultures : A Gravesian integrated approach.
… to a meta-theory integrating the ideas of memetics and heuristics.Practical implications - The use of self-reporting questionnaires relies on the honesty of those participating. Interpretation relies on the experience and knowledge of the researcher.Originality/value - This research shows …
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Water resources decision making using meta-heuristic optimization methods
… cooperative search metaphor inspired by natural memetics. SFLA was developed by extending the logic of two existing global optimization techniques for continuous optimization problems. The local search is completed using an extension of the particle swami optimization (PSO) method, and the global …
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The emergence of cultural policy in Zimbabwe 1984-1997
… cultural change at a micro level in terms of memetics and explains the methodology of multiple case studies. Part Two looks for origins of cultural concepts in 19th century white-authored journals and 20th century revolutionary texts and presents a critical analysis of formal documents …
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Internet Slang and China's Social Culture: A Case Study of Internet Users in Guiyang
… Theory as well as the sociocultural theory of memetics. Using the results of a questionnaire survey, interviews conducted with students at Guizhou Normal University, and a corpus of data collected on the Sina Weibo microblog, I found that Internet slang serves the function not only of …
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From meme to memegraph: The curious case of Pepe the Frog and white nationalism
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Inherited Ontologies and the Relations between Philosophy of Mind and the Empirical Cognitive Sciences
A productive relationship between the philosophy of mind and the empirical cognitive sciences not only is possible, but also is pursued productively by practitioners from both sides. In the first two chapters, I consider two examples of sets of concepts (“folk psychology” and the “architecture of …