Quick post on linguistic term "meme" (rhymes with "theme")
a neologism in our era that is itself a meme.
Here's Wikipedia's link on the concept meme--
Here are the first paragraphs of Wikipedia's summary:
The term "meme" (IPA: /miːm/, not /mɛm/ or /mimi/, to rhyme with "theme"), coined in 1976 by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, refers to a unit of cultural information transferable from one mind to another. Dawkins said, Examples of memes are tunes, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. A meme propagates itself as a unit of cultural evolution and diffusion — analogous in many ways to the behavior of the gene (the unit of genetic information). Often memes propagate as more-or-less integrated cooperative sets or groups, referred to as memeplexes or meme-complexes.The idea of memes has proved a successful meme in its own right, achieving a degree of penetration into popular culture rare for a scientific theory.
Proponents of memes suggest that memes evolve via natural selection — in a way very similar to Charles Darwin's ideas concerning biological evolution — on the premise that variation, mutation, competition, and "inheritance" influence their replicative success. For example, while one idea may become extinct, other ideas will survive, spread and mutate — for better or for worse — through modification.
You get the idea, I hope. Thus the meme transfers.
Why post this? Because the term is in currency,
and information and communication scientists
and practitioners
need to add this to their technical vocabulary,
regardless whether you want to adopt it in your
own exposition.