The Selfish Meme: A Critical Reassessment

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Selfishness is like a wall. A useless wall, without a doubt. It cannot hold one’s own joy in. But simply keeps the world’s joy out” Chandler, Daniel & Rod Munday. 2011. A dictionary of communication. Oxford: Oxford Reference. 10.1093/acref/9780199568758.001.0001 Search in Google Scholar Looking for quotes about selfish friends and other people? We’ve got a collection of some of the best relatable, funny, and sarcastic selfish friend quotes, sayings, and status messages (with images and pictures). Cannizzaro, Sara (31 December 2016). "Internet memes as internet signs: A semiotic view of digital culture". Sign Systems Studies. 44 (4): 562–586. doi: 10.12697/SSS.2016.44.4.05. ISSN 1736-7409. S2CID 53374867. Archived from the original on 1 February 2023 . Retrieved 23 January 2023. Petrova, Yulia (2021). "Meme language, its impact on digital culture and collective thinking". E3S Web of Conferences. 273: 11026. Bibcode: 2021E3SWC.27311026P. doi: 10.1051/e3sconf/202127311026. ISSN 2267-1242. S2CID 237986424.

a b c Dawkins 1989, p. 192 "We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. 'Mimeme' comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like 'gene'. I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme. If it is any consolation, it could alternatively be thought of as being related to 'memory', or to the French word même. It should be pronounced to rhyme with 'cream'." Gardner, Martin (5 March 2000). "Kilroy Was Here". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 11 October 2021 . Retrieved 8 October 2021. Gill, Jameson (2011). "Memes and narrative analysis: A potential direction for the development of neo-Darwinian orientated research in organisations" (PDF). EURAM 11: Proceedings of the European Academy of Management. European Academy of Management: 0–30. ISSN 2466-7498. S2CID 54894144. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 October 2021 . Retrieved 5 April 2022. Dawkins, Richard. 2016. The selfish gene: Fortieth anniversary edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Search in Google Scholar See also: Diffusion of innovations Imitating the famous cover of the Beatles album Abbey Road (1969), on which the band members cross the road in front of the Abbey Road Studios in a row, has become popular with fans and London visitors. The four actresses of the Japanese Manga/ media franchise Milky Holmes reenact the Beatles cover in 2010, extending the original Beatles meme by their film costumes. In 2011, four cosplayers imitate the above meme during the Manga convention Paris Manga 2012 at a zebra crossing in Paris, thus further separating the meme from the root situation of 1969 tied to the Abbey Road zebra crossing.Memes, analogously to genes, vary in their aptitude to replicate; successful memes remain and spread, whereas unfit ones stall and are forgotten. Thus, memes that prove more effective at replicating and surviving are selected in the meme pool. [ citation needed] Dawkins, Richard (1989). "11. Memes: The new replicators". The Selfish Gene (2nded.). Oxford University Press. p.368. ISBN 9780192177735. Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.”- Erich Fromm Eco, Umberto. 1976b. A theory of semiotics. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press. 10.1007/978-1-349-15849-2 Search in Google Scholar

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The Origin of Memes

Huxley, T. H. (1880). "The coming of age of 'The origin of species' ". Science. 1 (2): 15–20. doi: 10.1126/science.os-1.2.15. PMID 17751948. S2CID 4061790. Dawkins noted that in a society with culture a person need not have biological descendants to remain influential in the actions of individuals thousands of years after their death:

Some commentators have likened the transmission of memes to the spread of contagions. [38] Social contagions such as fads, hysteria, copycat crime, and copycat suicide exemplify memes seen as the contagious imitation of ideas. Observers distinguish the contagious imitation of memes from instinctively contagious phenomena such as yawning and laughing, which they consider innate (rather than socially learned) behaviors. [39] Kull, Kalevi (2000). "Copy versus translate, meme versus sign: Development of Biological Textuality". European Journal for Semiotic Studies. 12 (1): 101–120. Archived from the original on 23 January 2023 . Retrieved 23 January 2023. It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary. #selfishquotes Shifman, Limor (26 March 2013). "Memes in a Digital World: Reconciling with a Conceptual Troublemaker". Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 18 (3): 362–377. doi: 10.1111/jcc4.12013.What the study really illustrated, then, was a paradox: when it comes to information, sharing is mostly about me. The researchers weren’t trying to answer the thornier question of why—why, as they wrote, our species might have “an intrinsic drive to disclose thoughts to others.” The paper nonetheless points to an intriguing possibility: that this drive might give us humans an adaptive advantage. Benítez-Bribiesca, Luis (January 2001). "MEMETICS: A DANGEROUS IDEA". Interciencia. 26 (1). ProQuest 210137265– via Research Library. Ariana Grande just unveiled the official artwork for her upcoming album, Thank, U Next, but after a little Photoshop-brainstorming session on Sunday, fans may inspire her to consider some new options. Over the weekend … some Arianators started meme-ing the cover of Ari's fifth album with various pics of the "7 Rings" singer…