memetic
adj/məˈmɛtɪk/ · /mɪˈmɛtɪk/
Etymology From meme + -etic, by analogy with gene → genetic.
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Of, being, containing, or pertaining to memes; pertaining to replication of concepts.
- The term internets[…]is an example of memetic usage that functions as a high profile in-joke.2012, Michele Zappavigna, Discourse of Twitter and Social Media:
- 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.2015 July 7, Mark Galeotti, “'The west is too paranoid about Russia's information war'”, in The Guardian:
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- 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).2018, Whitney Phillips, Ryan M. Milner, The Ambivalent Internet […] , John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 122:
- 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.2021, Lisa Nakamura, Hanah Stiverson, Kyle Lindsey, Racist Zoombombing, Routledge, →ISBN:
- Whether the e/accs have the better arguments or not, they seem to have money and memetic energy on their side.2024 March 18, Andrew Marantz, “О.К., Doomer”, in The New Yorker, page 50:
- Derived terms
- antimemetic, memetical, memetic algorithm, memetically, memetic computing, memetic engineering, memetic hazard, memetic kill agent, memetics, memetic warfare, phylomemetic
- Related terms
- mimetic