Memes by Danthon

To begin, let the origin of the term. The first use of it was by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene. The name was a contraction of the Greek-old mimeme, which means something like "imitation."Dawkins called memes that which, in analogy to the genes, the minimum unit of informational transmission between generations.But while genetics refers to the physical characteristics of the individual and on a larger scale, the evolution of a species, the meme is a unit of culture that will define the cultural evolution (if we talk about culture, we talk about human now). While the spread of genes occurs in the Chaka Chaka butchaca, his "brothers cultural" spread through books, words, artifacts and other information content.
With a viral culture of the Internet, began to call things meme that spread through cyberspace, which were mainly those with some humorous content. For the researcher Rachel Recuero, this small unit of culture is a large cage on the web for study and observation because it is persistent, storing and repeating the information several times, and allow for her fidelity, to have this information reproduced in the same way than the original. This all means that the meme is a small and yet significant piece of culture that can spread through cyberspace by faithful repetition of its own content.
Recuero still puts that in the social network, the meme is passed on by individuals for some reason, some gain to any value, what she calls social capital. These social capital are the answers given by those in the network of contacts "repassing" the content. If the meme is humor, the desired response is laughter and recognition of followers. If it is more serious, political, the reward is the agreement of the transmitter network. And so on. As I said in Orkutiza me!, Everybody wants to appear in cyberspace and that is what motivates the memetic propagation. The simple fact that I'm writing this blog assumes that you will read and love me rssssss
You've taken to get an idea of ​​why the meme is to call it. So let's now see some types of this phenomenon in the context of the Internet.