Essays on Mems

From environments to princess kits, technology is being utilized as a method to spread information and ideas from place to place. For instance, in ‘What defines a Meme?,’ by James Gleick, and ‘Welcome to Dataland,’ by Ian Bogost, both authors utilize their credentials as a...

Originating from the Greek word ‘mimema’, meme was firstly put forward in Richard Dawkins’ ambitious book The Selfish Gene in 1976, in which the definition of meme is divided into two stages. The first stage of memes is regarded as a unit of cultural imitation,...

In his book The Selfish Gene published in 1976, Richard Dawkins was the first to coin the concept of memes in academia. He suggested that the term meme is a Darwinian, gene-centered approach to cultural evolution, calling it “the unit of cultural transmission”. Internet memes...

What are “Memes”? Do they really exist? What’s the relation between memes and human-level-intelligence? Are they part of the human evolution? These are the capital inspirational interrogations that made me think while reading one mind-blowing book. To answer these questions, I started to find counter...

If you’ve had any sort of interaction with the World Wide Web in the past decade or two, you’ve probably come across some form of a meme. The phrase ‘meme’ has become synonymous in our society with images and phrases pulled from the internet to...

I need to make a confession to you guys. I made a very terrible action. I did not know this small move of mine will affect this much. It’s a very terrible crime; I can be sued for doing this. I am regretting that action...