memetic

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See also: memètic

English

Etymology

From meme +‎ -etic, by analogy with gene → genetic.

Pronunciation

Adjective

memetic (comparative more memetic, superlative most memetic)

  1. Of, being, containing, or pertaining to memes; pertaining to replication of concepts.
    • 2012, Michele Zappavigna, Discourse of Twitter and Social Media‎:
      The term internets […] is an example of memetic usage that functions as a high profile in-joke.
    • 2015 July 7, Mark Galeotti, “'The west is too paranoid about Russia's information war'”, in The Guardian‎:
      But let’s not assume that all of the innuendo and debate is a product of the Russian info-war, or that the Kremlin is a grandmaster of the memetic chessboard.
    • 2018, Whitney Phillips, Ryan M. Milner, The Ambivalent Internet , John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 122:
      Within different communities, groups, or dyads, the same memetic media could be deployed as a long-standing community in-joke, dadaist absurdity, or even as fighting words (or images, as the case may be).
    • 2021, Lisa Nakamura, Hanah Stiverson, Kyle Lindsey, Racist Zoombombing‎, Routledge, →ISBN:
      Gamergate, “the Fappening” (or Celebgate), and the subsequent Comicsgate are examples of campaigns that deployed active memetic warfare in racialized and gendered ways to attack and drive away a constructed enemy.

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