Meme Studies

worded

Looking up courses in Memeogy / Memeory

As there are none, considering becoming a lecturer in Memes

Imaging year 1 as the teacher ....

OK class settle down ... this month we will be looking at Cat Memes and some of today’s content will be comming up in the test ...

Black Swan

UC Berkeley announces new Meme Studies Department for fall 2018.

Black Swan

Cambridge to offer short course in meme studies.

A course is available at Brown University, and it's called "Memes and the Language of the Internet."

mzungu

Black Swan wrote: »

Cambridge to offer short course in meme studies.

A course is available at Brown University, and it's called "Memes and the Language of the Internet."

At the root of that, there would be interesting investigations into what makes one meme go viral and another go nowhere. I know if I had the chance I would pick it as a module!

gozunda

mzungu wrote: »

At the root of that, there would be interesting investigations into what makes one meme go viral and another go nowhere. I know if I had the chance I would pick it as a module!

Boards own Cool Pics & Videos Forum should be an invaluable learning resource for future academics ...

Fathom

gozunda wrote: »

Boards own Cool Pics & Videos Forum should be an invaluable learning resource for future academics ...

Qualitative research studies. Content analysis?

gozunda

Fathom wrote: »

Qualitative research studies. Content analysis?

Possibly more as a study of proverbial monkeys with typewriters tbh ..

https://web.archive.org/web/20080805231814/http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/11118/digital-life/using-a-decade-of-online-irish-banter

Check out boards on wikipedia as well

mzungu

gozunda wrote: »

Possibly more as a study of proverbial monkeys with typewriters tbh ..

https://web.archive.org/web/20080805231814/http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/11118/digital-life/using-a-decade-of-online-irish-banter

Check out boards on wikipedia as well

A meme in itself?

Fathom

Picture memes worth a thousand words?

mzungu

Fathom wrote: »

Picture memes worth a thousand words?

Some of them, most definitely. Others, not so much.

Fathom

What generation was the meme gen? Gen-X? Millennials? Generation Z? Or?

gozunda

For every thread - there is a meme ...



Is now also a game ...

https://www.boardgamer.ie/577-what-do-you-meme.html

mzungu

Fathom wrote: »

What generation was the meme gen? Gen-X? Millennials? Generation Z? Or?

Richard Dawkins first coined the term in 1976 in his book The Selfish Gene. He explains it as the way in which cultural information spreads. The internet meme concept was coined by Mike Godwin (he of 'Godwin's Law' fame!) in a June 1993 issue of wired.

Taken from Wiki:

In 2013, Dawkins characterized an Internet meme as being a meme deliberately altered by human creativity—distinguished from biological genes and his own pre-Internet concept of a meme, which involved mutation by random change and spreading through accurate replication as in Darwinian selection. Dawkins explained that Internet memes are thus a "hijacking of the original idea", the very idea of a meme having mutated and evolved in this new direction. Furthermore, Internet memes carry an additional property that ordinary memes do not: Internet memes leave a footprint in the media through which they propagate (for example, social networks) that renders them traceable and analyzable.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_meme

Fathom

Like this: "In 2013, Dawkins characterized an Internet meme as being a meme deliberately altered by human creativity."

mzungu

Fathom wrote: »

Like this: "In 2013, Dawkins characterized an Internet meme as being a meme deliberately altered by human creativity."

Aye, or as he says himself that "anything that could be the basis for an evolutionary process is a meme, simply by becoming more frequent in the population, in the meme pool, in the same way the gene becomes more frequent in the gene pool."

Fathom

mzungu wrote: »

Aye, or as he says himself that "anything that could be the basis for an evolutionary process is a meme, simply by becoming more frequent in the population, in the meme pool, in the same way the gene becomes more frequent in the gene pool."

Evolutionary analogy. Darwin's differential reproduction? Or Spencer's survival of the fittest?

mzungu

Fathom wrote: »

Evolutionary analogy. Darwin's differential reproduction? Or Spencer's survival of the fittest?

The former is more focused on variation of the offspring as opposed to the evolutionary change over time found in the latter?

Fathom

Variation in a populations. Questions if such variation can only be applied to biology? What about behavior? In this particular case meme behavior?

mzungu

Fathom wrote: »

Variation in a populations. Questions if such variation can only be applied to biology? What about behavior? In this particular case meme behavior?

They certainly display the characteristics of evolution and digital communications are a product of the human race. So on some level it could be possible.

Fathom

mzungu wrote: »

They certainly display the characteristics of evolution and digital communications are a product of the human race. So on some level it could be possible.

The biology of behavior? Balanced nature vs. nurture?

mzungu

Fathom wrote: »

The biology of behavior? Balanced nature vs. nurture?

Do you mean in a digital sphere?

Fathom

mzungu wrote: »

Do you mean in a digital sphere?

Virtual. Digital. Metaphor.

mzungu

Fathom wrote: »

Virtual. Digital. Metaphor.

A product of human ingenuity that exists in a separate space.

Fathom

mzungu wrote: »

A product of human ingenuity that exists in a separate space.

Geometrically expanding. Generational linked.

mzungu

Fathom wrote: »

Geometrically expanding. Generational linked.

Across all phenomena?

gozunda

mzungu wrote: »

Across all phenomena?

No just boards

Black Swan

Folklore Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki studies memes. Interesting programme.

Fathom

Black Swan wrote: »

Folklore Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki studies memes. Interesting programme.

Fits with. Recent good press about Finland.

Black Swan

We meme studies be a passing fad, or something sustainable?

Fathom

Good question

mzungu

Black Swan wrote: »

We meme studies be a passing fad, or something sustainable?

As a module in a degree I would think it would be both sustainable and interesting. But basing a degree/masters around it would be stretching it IMO.

Fathom

mzungu wrote: »

As a module in a degree I would think it would be both sustainable and interesting. But basing a degree/masters around it would be stretching it IMO.

Agree.

Fathom

Free edX course: "How to Do Things with Memes."

worded

Skeptical

mzungu

Fathom wrote: »

Free edX course: "How to Do Things with Memes."

Certificate for $26! :P

To be fair, course content would fit in nicely into a media studies course and imo would be a welcome addition.

Fathom

mzungu wrote: »

Certificate for $26! :P To be fair, course content would fit in nicely into a media studies course and imo would be a welcome addition.

Surprised that they can produce the optional and additional certificate for a mere 26 bucks. Maybe you don't talk to a live person? Computer generated?

mzungu

Fathom wrote: »

Surprised that they can produce the optional and additional certificate for a mere 26 bucks. Maybe you don't talk to a live person? Computer generated?

I would say you are right. Probably all online and very "no frills" too I would imagine.

Fathom

May try a free class. No certificate.

mzungu

Fathom wrote: »

May try a free class. No certificate.

I'm sure lectures and study materials would be available online. Best way to do it really.

Fathom

mzungu wrote: »

I'm sure lectures and study materials would be available online. Best way to do it really.

Most free edX class materials available free online.

Black Swan

Reminds me of a couple of free edX classes I want to take, but not in meme studies, the latter being fun.

Fathom

Recent practical application. Bernie mittens meme.