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Meme culture and suicide sensitivity: a quantitative study
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2022 People worldwide are bogged down with a multitude of issues, many of which may need some form of coping mechanism to counteract the negative beliefs that accompany those issues. For many, memes have become that coping mechanism.
Ryan Weiser, Nafees Alam
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The Learning Organisation Meme: Emergence of a Management Replicator (or Parrots, Patterns and Performance) [PDF]
, 1996 Organisations and organisms are self-maintaining systems which spontaneously seek to preserve an evolved order. Both are enabled by replicators: memes or genes respectively.
Price, Ilfryn, Shaw, Ray
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Predicting Successful Memes using Network and Community Structure
, 2014 We investigate the predictability of successful memes using their early spreading patterns in the underlying social networks. We propose and analyze a comprehensive set of features and develop an accurate model to predict future popularity of a meme ...
Ahn, Yong-Yeol +2 more
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Sliding Doors: Frame Uptake and Rejection by Learners in a Museum‐Based Climate Learning Experience
Science Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Science education efforts that support public understanding of modern climate change are critically needed. However, implementing climate‐related learning experiences can be challenging, as public audiences tend to experience a wide range of understandings of and emotions around the issue. In light of these challenges, many scholars have posed
Lynne Zummo +7 more
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Clustering Memes in Social Media
, 2013 The increasing pervasiveness of social media creates new opportunities to study human social behavior, while challenging our capability to analyze their massive data streams.
Becker H. +6 more
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Conjectures to the Memes of Indonesian Songs [PDF]
, 2008 From the works of mathematical properties of songs, we construct the phylomemetic trees of Indonesian ethnic and traditional songs. The memeplexes are then reflected by the used notes and respective durations as they exhibit the Zipf-Mandelbrot law, the ...
Hokky, Situngkir
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Understanding of comical texts in people with different types of attitudes towards humour
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2021 This study aimed to test a hypothesis about the correlation between levels of gelotophobia, gelotophilia, and katagelasticism and understanding of Internet memes as a specific form of humour. Participants were 45 native speakers of Russian (aged 18 – 30;
Daniil Rivin, Olga Shcherbakova
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The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The 2024 UK general election saw candidates make frequent rhetorical references to parents and grandparents. But what are the political functions and implications of such references? Drawing together recent research in political psychology and sociology, this article interprets such references as attempts to articulate ‘vicarious identities ...
Joseph Haigh
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.In European animal welfare inspection on farms and at slaughter, inspectors encounter moral challenges that reveal the paradox at the heart of animal welfare. Against the harsh realities of industrial agriculture, not only are their idealized notions of animal wellbeing unrealizable, but inspectors are instrumental in perpetuating standards of welfare ...
Eimear Mc Loughlin
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‘Viral’ hunts? A cultural Darwinian analysis of witch persecutions [PDF]
, 2019 The theory of Darwinian cultural evolution is gaining currency in many parts of the socio-cultural sciences, but it remains contentious. Critics claim that the theory is either fundamentally mistaken or boils down to a fancy re-description of things we ...
Boudry, Maarten, Hofhuis, Steije
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