memetic en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /mɪˈmɛtɪk/
- (Southern-England) audio
- /məˈmɛtɪk/
Etymology
From meme + -etic, by analogy with gene → genetic.
Meanings
-
Of, being, containing, or pertaining to memes; pertaining to replication of concepts.
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: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: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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most memetic | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more memetic | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
memetics · memetic computing · memetically · memetic algorithm · phylomemetic · memetic warfare · antimemetic · memetic hazard · memetic kill agent · memetic engineering · memetical
Relateds
Translations (5)
it memetico (pertaining to memes, replication of concepts) · de memetisch (pertaining to memes, replication of concepts) · fi memeettinen (pertaining to memes, replication of concepts) · fr mémétique (pertaining to memes, replication of concepts) · scn mimèticu (pertaining to memes, replication of concepts)