In the age of social media, every major global event eventually gets distilled into a single, unforgettable moment—an image, ...

The word now is defined as "the study of memes" but memetics describes how ideas reproduce, change and evolve. Dawkins used "meme" to represent any piece of cultural information or content ...

Richard Dawkins has reflected on coining the term “meme”. The word was first shared by the scientist in his 1972 bestselling book The Selfish Gene, where it referred to the self-replication of ...

The term ’meme’ has taken on a new meaning in the digital age. Before it was used to describe everything from Grumpy Cat to Barbenheimer, Richard Dawkins coined the word in 1976.

Words can have multiple meanings, and when the internet adopted the idea of “memes” it was in reference to a very specific thing that was malleable enough to riff on endlessly. Argue if you ...

John Phipps: Meme Me Up, Scotty Once the Internet had introduced us to the concept of the meme, we started seeing them everywhere. Mostly because they had always been there and the word “meme ...

Richard Dawkins has reflected on coining the term “meme”. The word was first shared by the scientist in his 1972 bestselling book The Selfish Gene, where it referred to the self-replication of ...