Human beings are strange animals. Although evolutionary theory has brilliantly accounted for the features we share with other creatures—from the genetic code that directs the construction of our bodies to the details of how our muscles and neurons work—we still stand out in countless ways. Our brains are exceptionally large, we alone have truly grammatical language, and we alone compose symphon...

Abstract This study used an experimental design to examine the credibility and persuasiveness of COVID-19-related Internet memes. The a random sample U.S. social media users (N = 1,200) with source as theoretical framework. Results indicate that memes expert attribution are more credible than those nonexpert attribution. same applies Memes objective message tone also persuasive subjective tone....

The article defines the concept of “Internet meme”, analyzes its main characteristics, types, describes methodology content analysis memes. purpose this study is to carry out a computer memes, identify their features, and determine functions. Researchers analyzed 240 Internet memes about Russian-Ukrainian war in 2022. Ukrainian social networks were used as source sampling period: from February ...

The subject of this research is the corpus Internet memes English-language and Russian-language segments Internet. object classification memes, division relevant into categories on various grounds. author explores emergence new methods content creation Internet, proliferation popular culture use concept post-irony, as well reflection latest social political events in memes. Special attention gi...

Los escenarios de comunicación vinculados a las redes sociales y los medios con base en internet han sido estudiados desde distintas perspectivas, caracterizados como digitales, reticulares e interactivos. Este trabajo se propone analizar expresiones vinculadas al catolicismo estos circuitos concentra la actividad cuenta del papa Francisco Twitter español (@Pontifex_es) repercusiones entre usua...

Previous studies showed that the meme popularity distribution is described by a heavy-tailed distribution or a power-law, which is a characteristic feature of the criticality. Here, we study the origin of the criticality on non-growing and growing networks based on the competition induced criticality model. From the direct Mote Carlo simulations and the exact mapping into the position dependent...

This commentary stresses the importance of Atran’s work for the development of a new cognitive anthropology, but questions both his particular use of Dawkins’s “meme” model and the general usefulness of the meme model for understanding folk-taxonomies as cultural phenom-

We are developing RGeme (Rhythmic Meme Generator), an artificial intelligence system for the composition of rhythmic streams inspired by Richard Dawkin's theory of memes. The system is based on intelligent agents that learn from examples and interact by generating rhythms to each other. The system has two broad stages. In the first one, the learning stage, which is the main focus of this paper,...