ART 80F - MODULE 3 LECTURE CONTENT
Memes - Basic definitions
Meme - coined in 1976 by Evolutionary Biologist Richard Dawkins
Unit of cultural transmission - spread from mind to mind
Modeled after “gene” - units or media object inform and drive a social subconscious
Reproduction + longevity depended on success of absorption - viral
Updated definitions + ideas
Production + reproduction
Chicken or Egg Question - are these driving factors of social organization or evidence of social shifts