Meme

SO I HERD U LIEK MEMES

See also

Bandwagon effect Chain letter Consensus reality Creativity techniques Cultural evolution Culture jamming Demagoguery Diffusion of innovations Dual inheritance theory Epigenetics Evolutionary linguistics Figure of speech Framing (social sciences)

Groupthink Herd behavior Hive mind Hundredth Monkey Internet meme Memespace Memesphere Memetag Memetics Meme pool Paradigm shift Propaganda

Rhetoric Rumor Self-replication Semiotics Snowclone Social constructionism Trope (literature) Trope (philosophy) Urban legend Zeitgeist

Literature

1. Henson, H. Keith: Memes Meta-Memes and Politics, 1988
2. Henson, H. Keith and Arel Lucas: "Memes, Evolution, and Creationism", 1989
3. Khan, Pir Hazrat Inayat: The Music of Life, Omega Uniform Edition, 2nd edition, 1993, trade paperback: 353 pages, ISBN 0-930872-38-X. An introduction to the muwakkals (Eastern memes).
4. Dennett, Daniel: Consciousness Explained, Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1991. ISBN 0316180653
5. Dennett, Daniel: Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, 1995
6. Brodie, Richard: Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme. Integral Press, September 1995, 251 pages, ISBN 0-9636001-1-7
7. Bloom, Howard: The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History. Atlantic Monthly Press, February 1997, 480 pages, ISBN 0-87113-664-3
8. Blackmore, Susan: The Meme Machine. Oxford University Press, 1999, hardcover ISBN 0-19-850365-2, trade paperback ISBN 0-9658817-8-4, May 2000, ISBN 0-19-286212-X
9. Fog, Agner: Cultural Selection. Dordrecht: Kluwer 1999. ISBN 0-7923-5579-2.
10. Lynch, Aaron: Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society. Basic Books, 1999, ISBN 0-465-08467-2
    1. Review: "The new pseudo-science of memes"
11. Stephenson, Neal: Snow Crash. Bantam Doubleday Dell, reprint, 2000, trade paperback: 440 pages, ISBN 0-553-38095-8 (science-fiction novel about a metavirus engineered to activate as a meme in the brain, spreading through a number of vectors such as actual physical viruses, images, and others)
12. Flannery, Tim: "Eyes at the back of your head: How Richard Semon's memes gave way to Richard Dawkins's memes". Times Literary Supplement, October 19, 2001
13. Aunger, Robert: The Electric Meme: A New Theory of How We Think. Free Press, 2002, hardcover ISBN 0-7432-0150-7
14. Aunger, Robert: Darwinizing culture: the status of memetics as a science. Oxford University Press, 2000, New-York ISBN 0-19-263244-2
15. Henson, H. Keith: "Sex, Drugs, and Cults. An evolutionary psychology perspective on why and how cult memes get a drug-like hold on people, and what might be done to mitigate the effects", The Human Nature Review 2002 Volume 2: 343-355 [1]
16. H. Keith Henson: "Evolutionary Psychology, Memes and the Origin of War."
17. Lanier, Jaron: "The Ideology of Cybernetic Totalist Intellectuals", an essay which criticises "meme totalists" who assert memes over bodies.
18. "Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission" Journal of Memetics
19. Principia Cybernetica holds a lexicon of memetics concepts, comprising a list of different types of memes.
20. A list of memetics publications on the web
21. Ericsson-Zenith, Steven: Memeiosis , a formal characterization of memes.
22. Situngkir, Hokky: Culture as Complex Adaptive System, formal interplays between memetics and cultural analysis.
23. Chielens, Klaas: The Viral Aspects of Language: A Quantitative Research of Memetic Selection Criteria
24. Distin, Kate: The Selfish Meme: A Critical Reassessment. Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-521-60627-6
25. Hugo, Victor: Notre Dame de Paris (translated into English as The Hunchback of Notre Dame), 1831
26. Dennett, Daniel: Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon , 2006
27. Gibson, William: Pattern Recognition, page 95, "Word-of-mouth meme thing. We don't really know what it does, yet.", 2003.

External links

• The Meme Machine, Interview of Susan Blackmore by Denis Failly
• Journal of Memetics
• The text of Dawkins' Selfish Gene, chapter 11, "Memes: the new replicators", in which Dawkins coined the word "meme"
• The Mocking Memes: A Basis for Automated Intelligence, a 2006 book on a memetic theory of mind.
• Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology by Jack Balkin which uses memes to explain the growth and spread of ideology.
• Why did the chicken cross the road? The story of a meme
• A short piece by Mike Godwin on memes in Wired Magazine.
• The Invasion of the Memes ─ memes as an useful metaphor, nothing more.
• What is a Meme? by Brent Silby ─ an introductory article pitched at a general audience.
• A discussion of memes by Deepak Chopra
• "Life cycles of successful genes", 2003, Robert Hoffmann
• Memes.org ─ Just relaunched as a forum for discussion about memes and memetics.
• Dawkins's speech on the 30th anniversary of the publication of The Selfish Gene, Dawkins 2006
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• The Evolution of Technology by Brent Silby ─ memetics used to explain human creativity.
• "Evolution and Memes: The human brain as a selective imitation device": article by Susan Blackmore.
• Dan Dennett discusses Memes: Video from Ted Talks - Feb. 2002.