me·met·ics  (mē-mět'ĭks)  n. (used with a sing. verb) The study of memes and their social and cultural effects. [meme + -etics (as in aesthetics).] |
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.
[The Jargon File]
(2000-01-09)