Dr J W Unger Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University LA1 4YL e-mail: j.unger@lancaster.ac.uk<mailto:j.unger@lancaster.ac.uk> tel: +44 1524 592591<tel:+44%201524%20592591> Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger<http://twitter.com/#!/johnnyunger> On 12 Jun 2017, 08:13 +0100, Alexander Halavais <alex@halavais.net>, wrote: https://www.wordnik.com/img/humptydumpty.png -- // Alexander Halavais, Sociologist, Semiologist, and Saboteur Extraordinaire // Director of the MA in Social Technologies, Arizona State University // http://alex.halavais.net/bio @halavais On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 8:11 PM, Jean Burgess <je.burgess@qut.edu.au> wrote: https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3572/3685762238_8843196b53.jpg On 11/6/17, 5:21 am, "Air-L on behalf of Robert W Gehl" < air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org on behalf of lists@robertwgehl.org> wrote: I am not a meme scholar, but I think there is quite a bit of validity in taking seriously what people do on the Internet, as well as how they describe their own activities. One of those things they do is traffic in something they refer to as "memes." Perhaps all of those people who refer to those objects as "memes" are out of their depths in their understanding of social science, and yet they continue to make, share, and take meaning from these things called "memes." I have no advice for meme tracking, but I do have advice for studying them: do so, because they are part of human activity that matters, whether the word is right or wrong. See: https://ixquick-proxy.com/do/spg/show_picture.pl?l=english& rais=1&oiu=http%3A%2F%2F68.media.tumblr.com%2F654ddf051c94d4c099a3a9664100 6159%2Ftumblr_optspwxfiH1vntq6no1_1280.png&sp= 7268cc951930ae53482a81dbdbbd07f1 - Rob Gehl On 06/10/2017 01:06 PM, David Stodolsky wrote: Once you fall into Newspeak, like “meme,” you have already sacrificed your rationality on the altar of market fundamentalism: http://cosmism.blogspot.dk/2011/07/artificial-ape.html http://cosmism.blogspot.dk/2010/12/memes-selfish-genes- and-darwinian.html http://cosmism.blogspot.dk/2010/02/what-darwin-got-wrong.html http://cosmism.blogspot.dk/2016/02/richard-selfish-gene- dawkins-has.html Margaret-thatcher: "And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families" in an interview in Women's Own in 1987 https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/apr/08/margaret- thatcher-quotes “Meme” is the same idea expressed by a zoologist, who is out of his depth in social science. He continues to be a fanatical opponent of group selection, when it comes to genes. As the refs below show, the term meme has no validity. Rumor propagation and the spread of innovative ideas has a long history of study in social science. dss On 8 Jun 2017, at 15:05, Thomas Ball <xtc283@gmail.com> wrote: A couple of years ago IARPA (https://www.iarpa.gov/) opened up a thread exploring the use of open source indicators (OSIs) for prediction and forecasting of unknown potential future events and threats. OSIs are basically text and keywords. In reaching out to the IARPA organizer of the discussion, links were requested to papers on the topic. The link below was his response. Note that this IARPA thread came shortly after the so-called 'Arab Spring.' Thus, the papers reflect thinking of that vintage. D12PC00337 OR D12PC00285 OR D12PC00347 - Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=D12PC00337+OR+ D12PC00285+OR+D12PC00347 D12PC00337 OR D12PC00285 OR D12PC00347 - Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=D12PC00337+OR+ D12PC00285+OR+D12PC00347 On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 4:33 AM, Tanis Grandison < tanis.grandison@me.com wrote: Hi All, I was wondering if anyone could offer any advice (and useful reading ) on tracking Memes. Specifically, I am wondering if there is a way I can take a meme and look at how it has spread and been shared on different social media? I wouldn’t be doing it in real time, more looking back at significant events and how political memes transcended networks and flowed through social media. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. 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