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What is Meme

Handbook of Research on Integrating Digital Technology With Literacy Pedagogies
A humorous picture, video, or other piece of text that is copied with slight variations and shared by internet users.
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“Nobody Really Does the Reading”: Rethinking Reading Accountability Using Technology Tools
Chelsey M. Bahlmann Bollinger (James Madison University, USA), Sarah M. Lupo (James Madison University, USA), and Brian A. Sullivan (James Madison University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-0246-4.ch019
Abstract
Although quizzes and written summaries are more traditional ways to hold students accountable for reading, more than two thirds of college students report not completing assigned readings, references show. In this mixed-methods study, the researchers explored whether various technology strategies motivated undergraduate literacy education students to not only read, but also learn from these assigned texts. Collecting survey data from our literacy preparation courses, the authors examined how the students perceived these strategies.
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Toward a Working Definition of Digital Literacy
Typically an imitated image such as a photograph that is used to transmit an idea by adding text via the web.
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Fandom as an Art Form: Artists Who Adopt Fan Behavior as Representational and Political Strategies
A recombined, repeated message diffused throughout a participatory online community
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Knowledge Management in Times of Pandemic: Insights From Humor on Social Media
An image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users, often with slight variations.
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AI and Ideas by Statistical Mechanics
Alludes to a technology originally defined to explain social evolution, which has been refined to mean a gene-like analytic tool to study cultural evolution
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Blockchanging Politics: Opening a Trustworthy but Hazardous Reforming Era
It is for memory just as the gene is for biology. It is the minimum unit of information that multiplies from brain to brain or between places where information is stored.
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The Yin and Yang of 4chan's Nature
an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture.
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Orientalism and Humour: Marginalization of the Turks in 9GAG
A contagious information structure that reproduces by the transition from one brain to another; the structure that changes human behaviors and causes them to spread the structure.
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Concept Naming: Exploratory Methods in the Development of Product Design and Brand DNA
A meme is ‘a unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another’ (American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright, 2000).
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Everything Is Content: A Gen Z Approach to Exploring African American History and Culture at a HBCU
The cultural information including but not limited to beliefs, ideas, tunes, catchphrases, and fashion trends which are rapidly transmitted between people via imitation while maintaining fecundity, longevity, and fidelity.
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Background of Metamodernism and Metaliteracy
A rapidly spread online message in the form of an image, video, or text, that is repurposed, usually with cultural reference and humor.
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The Holon/Parton Structure of the Meme, or The Unit of Culture
The unit of culture ( Dawkins 1976 ). Identified (thus defined) here as: the holon/parton (see: Velikovsky 2016 ).
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