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...

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...

This paper explores the utility of assemblage theory for intergenerational counter-mapping and, through this, for reconfigurations of indigeneity. Counter-mapping is theorised as a kind of assemblage that, through intergenerational learning, is fundamentally memetic (composed of evolving units of information) in nature. Assemblage is theorised as having three aspects (relations of exteriority, ...

A meme is a caption image that consists of an and witty message which reflects worldwide current incidents. Since the outbreak, Covid19 has received its own share memes by fueling pile – on excuses to promote racism Asian's particularly Chinese community as being major cause pandemic. The present study aims investigate racial (24) English (10) Arabic memes. To achieve this, pragmatic multimodal...

The integration process between evolutionary approach and conventional economic analysis is very essential for the next development of economic studies, especially in the fundamental concepts of modern economics: supply and demand analysis. In this presentation, we use the concept of meme to explore evolution of demand. This study offers an evolutionary model of demand, which views utility as a...

Abstract This paper adopts a construction-grammar approach to multimodal meaning. We provide detailed analysis of the Before-After -construction used frequently in advertisements, cartoons and Internet memes. demonstrate that parts its generic ‘caused-change’ meaning is compositional, rendered independently from what overtly expressed by concrete instances pattern. The latter hence build on an ...

The study of collective attention is of growing interest in an age where massand social media generate massive amounts of often short lived information. That is, the problem of understanding how particular ideas, news items, or memes grow and decline in popularity has become a central problem of the information age. Recent research efforts in this regard have mainly addressed methods and models...

Setting aside the problems of recognising consciousness in a machine, this article considers what would be needed for a machine to have human-like consciousness. Human-like consciousness is an illusion; that is, it exists but is not what it appears to be. The illusion that we are a conscious self having a stream of experiences is constructed when memes compete for replication by human hosts. So...

In this paper we study the emergence and the effects of a possession norm in an artificial society. We link the study of norms and the concept of memes as put forward by Richard Dawkins. Normative behaviour is modelled using memes as carriers for certain behaviours. For our simulations we extend the sugarscape model from Epstein and Axtell (1996) and give the agents the possibility to claim pos...