Essays on Memes

You’ve seen hundreds of them. You laugh at those who call it meh-meh or even mimi. You think you know the entirety of the Internet. But how did memes really take over? Probably by just being exactly what they are. Memes. It starts with Richard…

The Philosophy of Memes We’ve heard of memes. If you haven’t, then you most likely live under a rock, on top of a mountain away from civilization. We see them in every social media we know of. More often than not, we tend to send…

The Art of Meme Making Internet memes are a new genre that allow the public to have the opportunity to participate in a new digital culture. Memes are essentially created in order to provide people with the opportunity to observe different ideas and beliefs that…

The research topic that I am interested in is about how memes affect the psychological well-being of college students. This topic sparks up my interest since almost all of my peers and I use or share memes on a daily basis. I would like to…

Memes are a nuisance. Or at least a glance into the world of academic literature would suggest so. English ethnologist, Richard Dawkins conceived the term “meme” 1 to catalogue the power of ideas and how they evolve as well as look at units of culture,…