Song and dance: a memetic angle on the evolution of musicality and music via case studies of a musemeplex in Saint-Saëns and ABBA [PDF]
Applying the theory of memetics to music offers the prospect of reconciling general Darwinian principles with the style and structure of music. The nature of the units of cultural evolution in music—memes or, more specifically, musemes—can potentially ...
Steven Jan
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An extra-memetic empirical methodology to accompany theoretical memetics [PDF]
Purpose: The paper describes the difficulties encountered by researchers who are looking to operationalise theoretical memetics and provides a methodological avenue for studies that can test meme theory. Design/Methodology/Approach: The application of
Gill, Jameson
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“The Two Brothers”: Reconciling Perceptual-Cognitive and Statistical Models of Musical Evolution [PDF]
While the “units, events and dynamics” of memetic evolution have been abstractly theorized (Lynch, 1998), they have not been applied systematically to real corpora in music.
Steven Jan
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Research on innovative design of Nuo mask based on Memetics-AHP-Thematic analysis-shape grammar. [PDF]
The study seeks to investigate the cultural factors of Chizhou Nuo masks and their strategic application strategies in contemporary design, by compiling the Chizhou Nuo cultural literature, integrating memetics, identifying the cultural factors of the ...
Axiang Yang +4 more
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CAN MEMETICS SOLVE THE “DODO BIRD VERDICT”? GUIDELINES FOR ANALYZING THE EVOLUTION OF THE MEMETIC CODE IN PSYCHOTHERAPISTS [PDF]
The debate about the differential effectiveness of the different models of psychotherapy and what is known as the “Dodo Bird Verdict”, the fact that equivalent efficacy has been found between different therapeutic approaches, is analyzed in this work ...
Xacobe Fernández-García +1 more
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Beyond the Myth of Best Practice in Project Management [PDF]
It is broadly accepted that projects are temporary endeavours that create some unique ‘products’. That is, projects are also unique. Yet the best practice approach postulates that projects are basically same, and that one project management tool is ...
Mihály Görög
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Memetic: Semantic Meeting Memory [PDF]
This paper introduces the Memetic toolkit for recording meetings held over Internet-based video conferencing technologies, and making these navigable in linear and nonlinear ways. We introduce the tools and technologies that form the toolkit and discuss the semantics of the information they capture.
Michaelides, Danius +11 more
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Memetics of Deception: Spreading Local Meme Hoaxes during COVID-19 1st Year
The central thesis of this paper is that memetic practices can be crucial to understanding deception at present when hoaxes have increased globally due to COVID-19.
Raúl Rodríguez-Ferrándiz +3 more
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This article will discuss about the physiological genesis of representation and then it will illustrate the developments, especially in evolutionary perspective, and it will show how these are mainly a result of accidental circumstances, rather than of ...
Roberto De Rubertis
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The selfish signifier: meaning, virulence and transmissibility in a management fashion [PDF]
Purpose. Management fashions can be, and have been, conceptualized as narrative elements competing for replication and resources in the wider managerial discourse. Most wax and wane through a life cycle.
Colin Jones, Ilfryn Price
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