MEME

Meme

A meme is "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture." A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate, and respond to selective pressures.

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meme

Noun

  1. Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.
  2. A self-propagating unit of cultural evolution having a resemblance to the gene (the unit of genetics).
  3. A quiz or survey that is copied from one webpage or online journal to another, each participant filling in his or her personal answers.
  4. An idea, joke, concept, video, animation, etc. that spreads online, often virally.


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