Humor und Stereotype in Memes

One does not simply produce funny memes! - Explorations on the Automatic Generation of Internet humor

This paper reports on the automatic generation of image macro based Internet memes – potentially funny combinations of an image and text, intended to be spread in social networks. Memes are produced for news headlines for which, based on linguistic features, a suitable macro is selected and the text is adapted. The generation method is described together with its current implementation, which i...

Einsatz von Spaß und Humor zur Förderung sozialer Aktivität

Das Ziel des AAL-Forschungsprojektes Social Interaction Screen war, die soziale Interaktion älterer Menschen mit ihrer Familie und Freunden zu unterstützen, sowie die Teilnahme an sozialen Aktivitäten in der näheren Umgebung zu fördern. Das Anliegen dieses Beitrags ist es zunächst die Vorgehensweise bei der Realisierung und Evaluation des elderly interaction & service assistant Tablet-Computers...

MHD Memes

The celebration of Allan Kaufman’s 80th birthday was an occasion to reflect on a career that has stimulated the mutual exchange of ideas (or memes in the terminology of Richard Dawkins) between many researchers. This paper will revisit a meme Allan encountered in his early career in magnetohydrodynamics, the continuation of a magnetohydrodynamic mode through a singularity, and will also mention...

Memes Revisited

In this paper, I argue that the adaptive fit between human cultures and their environment is persuasive evidence that some form of evolutionary mechanism has been important in driving human cultural change. I distinguish three mechanisms of cultural evolution: niche construction leading to cultural group selection; the vertical flow of cultural information from parents to their children, and th...

Genes and Memes