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‘Gen Z Language? Y'all Mean AAVE’: The Appropriation of African American Vernacular English as ‘TikTok Language’

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 255-267, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Sociolinguistic research has long documented the appropriation of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) across media including film, music and advertising. In this article, we add to this body of work by exploring the digital recontextualisation of a subset of AAVE features as ‘TikTok/internet language’.
Christian Ilbury, Rianna Walcott
wiley   +1 more source

Notes on Memetics

open access: yes, 2009
Comments on Denise Smith\u27s essay Style vs Memetics: Exploring Some New Ideas
Faulstich, Paul
core   +1 more source

Analysis of Fans’ Cyberwords From the Perspective of Memetics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
With the development of internet, network is more and more important in people’s daily life. Among the huge network user groups, fans as a unique group gradually come to people’s vision, meanwhile cyberwords used by fans group also becomes one of the ...
YANG, Liuxiang
core   +1 more source

Adaptive Hybrid Multi‐Objective Evolutionary Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Network Optimization: A Comprehensive Framework Integrating Opposition‐Based Learning and Levy Flight Strategies

open access: yesEngineering Reports, Volume 8, Issue 5, May 2026.
The configuration of WSN design parameters presents a formidable multi‐objective optimization challenge characterized by five competing objectives that exhibit complex interdependencies. Figure 1 illustrates a typical WSN deployment topology showing sensor nodes, cluster heads, coverage areas, and various network conditions including out‐of‐range ...
Sandeep Deshmukh   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Parts of the Whole: Moderating Competition in the World of Ideas

open access: yesNumeracy, 2015
In both biological and mathematical dynamical systems, competition may be moderated by the presence of a top predator of both competing species. Applying this principle in memetics sheds light on why some strategies are more likely than others to promote
Dorothy Wallace
doaj   +1 more source

The Memetic Connotations and Evolution of “Pietas” in Roman Ideology, Ethics and Politics [PDF]

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences
This article examines the application of memetics as a valuable and manageable framework for cultural studies. Specifically, it delves into the memes associated with Roman "Pietas" and their impact on the ideological, ethical and political landscape of ...
Zheng Danyang
doaj   +1 more source

Memetics, an undomesticated science

open access: yes, 2013
Since the 1990s, the science of memetics has existed outside of any discipline and freely available to all. It has remained clandestine, having failed to become established as a “normal” science, but its vitality has been unabated by the resistance of ...
JOUXTEL, Pascal
core   +1 more source

Behavioural mimicry or herd behaviour of Generation Z? Social media interactions in the context of information overload

open access: yesEngineering Management in Production and Services
The article aimed to examine the relationship between Generation Z’s interactions on social networking sites in the context of herd behaviour and behavioural mimicry through central and peripheral content processing pathways.
Stepaniuk Krzysztof   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Case of Memetics

open access: yes, 2011
This bachelor thesis focuses on the controversial topic of memetics. Memetics is rather new science which links sociology, biology and psychology together.
Knedla, Dalibor
core  

On signs, memes and MEMS: Toward evolutionary ecosemiotics

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2001
The first issue raised by this paper is whether semiotics can bring any added value to ecology. A brief examination of the epistemological status of semiotics in its current forms suggests that semiotics' phenomenological macroconcepts are incommensurate
Paul Bouissac
doaj   +1 more source

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