The Technology Of The Digital Generation Better Than The Meme

Introduction: Perhaps no digital phenomenon can encapsulate the culture of the digital generation better than the meme. The proliferation of social media outlets has made it possible for humourous, insightful, or otherwise interesting content to spread throughout the web virally. Funny image macros like â€Å"Advice Dog† and â€Å"Rage Comics† circulate through networks, from person to person, to amuse. The idea of the meme has been around long before the conception of the internet, originating from a text on evolutionary biology; unfortunately, the copious use of the word meme on the internet has led to both the misuse of the term as well as a reluctance to utilise the word in academic discourse by some authors. This website is intended to†¦show more content†¦The study of memetics was created to explore how ideas are transferred from one mind to another and the analysis of memes has become a large part of modern anthropomorphology. Ideologies Are Fundamentally Memetic: The values people hold are not defined by nature, but by exposure to and judgement of the world. It is because of this that the values of others act as influences on the ones which we hold personally and ideologies are born when people share the same worldview. These ideologies can spread virally or not, but are always transferred memetically, as they change and evolve as they get passed around to, judged by, and evaluated by, different people. It is because of this that we can see that ideologies are fundamentally memetic constructs and this is but one example of sophisticated use of the idea of the meme which validates its assimilation into the dictionary of academic prose. What Is Marxism? Karl Marx has become one of the most divisive figures in all of human history and he is definitely one of the most influential men to ever live. For years after the publishing of his most enduring work, The Communist Manifesto, Marxist principles changed not just the economy of some of the world’s greatest political powers, but the tone and subject matter of many literary and other artistic works. The popularisation and, largely, the