memetics

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

memetics
 /me.met'iks/, n.

   [from {meme}] The study of memes. As of early 1999, this is still an
   extremely informal and speculative endeavor, though the first steps
   towards at least statistical rigor have been made by H. Keith Henson
   and others. Memetics is a popular topic for speculation among hackers,
   who like to see themselves as the architects of the new information
   ecologies in which memes live and replicate.

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

memetics

   <philosophy> /me-met'iks/ The study of {memes}.

   As of mid-1993, this is still an extremely informal and
   speculative endeavor, though the first steps toward at least
   statistical rigor have been made by H. Keith Henson and
   others.  Memetics is a popular topic for speculation among
   hackers, who like to see themselves as the architects of the
   new information ecologies in which memes live and replicate.

   [{Jargon File}]

   (2000-01-09)

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