Memetic algorithms are a class of well-studied metaheuristics which combine evolutionary algorithms and local search techniques. A meme represents contagious piece of information in an adaptive information sharing system. The canonical memetic algorithm uses a fixed meme, denoting a hill climbing operator, to improve each solution in a population during the evolutionary search process. Given gl...

This paper investigates the discursive construction of sexual violence in humorous Internet memes. Feminist digital media scholars have taken an increased interest ways which communication and content reproduces notions gender norms as well creating misogynist, racist, homophobic transphobic content. However, little research has investigated role humour plays this discourse – especially how it ...

Heavy-tailed distributions of meme popularity occur naturally in a model of meme diffusion on social networks. Competition between multiple memes for the limited resource of user attention is identified as the mechanism that poises the system at criticality. The popularity growth of each meme is described by a critical branching process, and asymptotic analysis predicts power-law distributions ...

Social media is playing an increasingly vital role in information dissemination. But with dissemination being more distributed, content often makes multiple hops, and consequently has opportunity to change. In this paper we focus on content that should be changing the least, namely quoted text. We find changes to be frequent, with their likelihood depending on the authority of the copied source...

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1. What is Memetics? 2. The State and Status of Memetics 3. Memetic Engineering in Human Societies 4. Memetic Engineering and Artificial Societies 5. What are Artificial Societies? 6. Memes in Artificial Societies 7. Evolutionary Game Theory Models 8. Memetic Models of Cultural Change 8.1. The Axelrod Cultural Model 8.2. The Swap Shop Model 8.3. The Open-Mind Model 8.4. The Stereotypes Model 9....

Memes are powerful means for effective communication on social media. Their effortless amalgamation of viral visuals and compelling messages can have far-reaching implications with proper marketing. Previous research memes has primarily focused characterizing their affective spectrum detecting whether the meme's message insinuates any intended harm, such as hate, offense, racism, etc. However, ...

The popularity of memes has increased in this modern era as they can be highly accessible on the internet. They are significant communication tools social media such for humour and marketing. Studies commonly explored field marketing business, politics, even their effects users. However, studies which focus from a multimodal discourse perspective, particularly Malaysian context relation to Siak...