memetic
English
Etymology
meme + -etic, by analogy with gene → genetic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /məˈmɛtɪk/, /mɪˈmɛtɪk/
Audio (UK) (file) - Homophone: mimetic (some accents)
Adjective
memetic (comparative more memetic, superlative most memetic)
- Of 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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Derived terms
- memetic algorithm
- memetic computing
- memetic engineering
- memetic hazard
- memetic kill agent
- memetic warfare
Translations
pertaining to memes, replication of concepts
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