Monday, October 18, 2010

meme defined

Definitions of meme on the Web:

  • a cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one person to another by non-genetic means (as by imitation); "memes are the cultural counterpart of genes"
    wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

  • A meme (, rhyming with "cream"
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

  • Meme is a department of Southwest Province in Cameroon. The department covers an area of 3,105 km² and as of 2001 had a total population of 300,318.The capital of the department lies at Kumba.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme_(department)

  • "Meme|ミーム miimu" is Rurutia's 4th and last original album under Toshiba-EMI and was released April 13, 2005.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme_(Rurutia_album)

  • The Morlocks are a group of several fictional comic book mutants associated with the X-Men in the Marvel Comics universe. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Paul Smith, they were named after the subterranean race of the same name in H. G. Wells' novel The Time Machine. ...
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme_(comics)

  • The term Internet meme is a phrase used to describe a catchphrase or concept that spreads quickly from person to person via the Internet, much like an esoteric inside joke. ...
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme_(Internet)

  • Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another. ...
    en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meme

  • Richard Dawkins's 1976 coinage, on the analogy to gene (with a little aid from mime and mimic), for a cultural copying unit, such as the word or melody that is mimicked by others.
    williamcalvin.com/LEM/LEMend.htm

  • An idea or concept that attains online popularity. Popular Internet memes include “All your base are belong to us,” ,” and the goatse man.
    www.harvestseo.com/seo-glossary-m.html

  • An idea that self-reproduces like a virus; a catchphrase or concept, or other unit of social currency. Example: "Where's the beef?"
    www.oskoui-oskoui.com/glossary/M

  • A term coined by Richard Dawkins, who defines it as "a unit of cultural inheritance, hypothesized as analogous to the particulate gene and as naturally selected by virtue of its 'phenotypic' consequences on its own survival and replication in the cultural environment."
    www.lycaeum.org/~maverick/glossary.htm

  • Leftist pseudo-intellectualese or linguistic affectation, generally used in the pejorative, employed to designate a commonly held position, thought or expression as worthy of or susceptible to attack or denigration by superior leftist "critical thought" which the employer possesses in abundance.
    www.theacru.org/blog/2007/04/a_dictionary_to_educate_the_politically_incorrect/

  • A postulated unit or element of cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which is transmitted from one mind to another through speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena.
    machineslikeus.com/news/glossary

  • a cultural item or idea that is transmitted by repetition in a manner analogous to the propagation of biological genes. 10
    thesis.jessierauch.com/index.php/about/glossary/

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