Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id NAA07520 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 28 Apr 2000 13:47:55 +0100 Subject: Re: Introductions Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 08:45:08 -0400 x-sender: wsmith1@camail2.harvard.edu x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, Claritas est veritas From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> To: "memetics list" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-ID: <20000428124528.AAA29252@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>Memetics, as far as my currently limited understanding of the
>concept allows, seems to me to offer a potentially new way of thinking about
>the processes of media effects which is more holistic than existing theories
>of media.
Agreed.
>If anyone is aware of academic work being carried by
>media scholars on memetics I would be grateful for any information about
>that.
Outside of the so-far unsuccessful attempts to ascertain any subliminal
effects (or to utilize them) within different media and presentations, I
still return, in a charming way, to the montage theory of Eisenstein et
al. and the early film pioneers, and to Aristotle, for the primary
empirical studies of the effect of forms in fictions.
But, don't forget table manners.
- Wade
===============================================================
This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the
Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission
For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing)
see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Apr 28 2000 - 13:48:12 BST