COVID-19 AS MEME GENERATOR: PANDEMIC NEWSPEAK INFLUENCING MEME CREATION

Meme creation and sharing processes: individuals shaping the masses

Individuals are able to effect massive online social change through the viral sharing of memes. Sharing is initially influenced by meme creators and secondarily by meme consumers, whose individual sharing decisions accumulate to determine total meme sharing. By investigating meme creation as a separate process from meme sharing, we hope to create an account of online sharing that includes featu...

Goatse: A Blockchain-Based Incentivized Meme Creation Platform

Goatse is a blockchain-based incentivized voting system that supports the generation of dank memes. It implements cryptocurrency-based incentivisation for meme originators, with a primary goal of allowing the internet’s talented meme artists to achieve recognition and reward for their memetic work. Prioritisation of fresh memes is achieved through community based algorithms, which reward users ...

What’s in a Meme? The Development of the Meme as a Unit of Culture

Meme Media and Meme Pools for Re-editing and Redistributing Intellectual Assets

Nowadays the research topics of science and technology are diversified and segmented into more and more categories. The number of interdisciplinary research topics has also increased. With increasingly sophisticated research on science and technology, there is a growing need for interdisciplinary and international availability, distribution and exchange of the latest research results, in re-edi...

Determinants of Meme Popularity

Online social media have greatly affected the way in which we communicate with each other. However, little is known about what are the fundamental mechanisms driving dynamical information flow in online social systems. Here, we introduce a generative model for online sharing behavior and analytically show, using techniques from mathematical population genetics, that competition between memes fo...