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The Formosan Black Bear and Taiwanese Nationalism

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that situates nations and nationalism within colonial relations, this article examines nationalism in settler‐colonial Taiwan amid China's colonial claim to sovereignty. Drawing on interviews, conservation documents and popular representations, we show how the Formosan black bear became a national symbol of resistance ...
Yung‐Ying Chang, John Chung‐En Liu
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring Administrative Burden: Bringing the State “Back in” as a Reflexive Actor in Burden Reduction

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how governments measure administrative burdens in citizen–state interactions. Although scholarly interest in the burden framework has grown, little is known about how states themselves track and reduce these costs. A scoping review of 38 academic and gray sources, complemented by interviews with 11 experts, identifies six ...
Pierre‐Marc Daigneault, Marc Journeault, Laurent Lauzon‐Rhéaume, Lisa M. Birch   +3 more
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Decoding Philippine Facebook Memes: A Content Analysis of Their Cultural and Social Influence

Sukisok
This study examined Facebook memes as cultural texts that mirror and influence Filipino popular culture, social values, and collective identity. Specifically, it explored meme-sharing trends among users, their contribution to pop culture and social ...
Khristine Joy H. Dela Cruz, Bradley V. Gansatao, Angelica R. Añon, Kevin L. Dela Calzada   +3 more
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Can We Measure Memes?

, 2011
Memes are the fundamental unit of cultural evolution and have been left upon the periphery of cognitive neuroscience due to their inexact definition and the consequent presumption that they are impossible to measure.
Adam McNamara, McNamara, A
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Comparative analysis of immune responses in ovipositing and non‐ovipositing females of European earwig Analyse comparative de la réponse immunitaire avant et après la ponte chez le forficule européen

Physiological Entomology, EarlyView.
Oviposition and care decrease the total haemocyte concentration. Oviposition and care affect haemocyte type proportions. Serratia marcescens challenge does not affect the immune cell parameters. Abstract Reproduction and immunity are essential biological processes that compete for resources and energy.
Louis Pailler, Wilfrid Jean Louis, Mae Baillergeon, Marion Corjon, Tiffany Laverre, Julien Verdon, Joël Meunier, Christine Braquart‐Varnier   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Memes

Proceedings of the ALISE Annual Conference
This study explores how memes represent cultural agency and identity across international and sociocultural boundaries and how they can impact sociocultural discourses in online spaces. Based on the theoretical framework of Burnett’s information domains, this study examines three specific examples to introduce how memes can traverse diverse contexts ...
Minhyung Jo, Gary Burnett, Shannon Williams, Willie Smith, Kathleen Burnett   +4 more
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Memeocracy. Gli Internet memes come strumento per la partecipazione al dibattito politico

, 2021
LAUREA MAGISTRALELa tesi ha come obiettivo l’analisi del fenomeno degli internet memes in quanto nuova modalità di partecipazione al dibattito politico.
Accardo, Ruggero
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Taboos as Drivers for Counterculture: Normalizing Misogyny in Incel Communities and Beyond

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Mihaela Popa‐Wyatt, Justina Berškytė
wiley   +1 more source

Against Proxy Optimization

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I discuss conditions under which maximizing a proxy utility function is harmful and suggest this poses problems for applying decision theory.
Sven Neth
wiley   +1 more source

Chinese, English and Italian memes about work: a mixed-method linguistic analysis

reservedA meme is a unit of cultural transmission and imitation, first defined by a British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins (1976). Nowadays, in the digital era, memes primarily refer to internet memes, which are multimodal digital units that ...
LIU, RUNYU
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