From: Lawrence DeBivort (debivort@umd5.umd.edu)
Date: Thu 13 Mar 2003 - 04:36:01 GMT
Yes. I think this is also an example of how the content and form of a
message can be particularly appealing, and lend itself to an accelerated,
more powerful dissemination.
Cheers,
Lawry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> Of Keith Henson
> Sent: Wed, March 12, 2003 7:33 PM
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: Instance of Memetic dissemination
>
>
> At 09:15 AM 11/03/03 -0500, Lawrence DeBivort wrote:
> > From a friend...
> >
> >LdB
> >
> > >> Laurie
> > >> Garrett of Newsday -- and author of a great work of contemporary
> > >> history,
> > >> The Coming Plague -- sent this email to a bunch of her
> friends. It got
> > >> around. Then it got loose. Reportedly she is quite steamed
> about it, as
> > >> well she might be. But it's been circulated to thousands already...]
> >
> > >From a colleague on the PHIL-LIT list I find out that there
> >is quite alot of analysis and discussion of this e-mail out
> >there. The e-mail, how it spread, and privacy issues which
> >arise, along with lots of links, on LawMeme:
> >
> >Accidental Privacy Spills: Musings on Privacy, Democracy,
> >and the Internet
> >Posted by James Grimmelmann on Wednesday, February 19 @
> >22:02:50 EST
>
> snip
>
> Great meme example also giving an example of how computers and
> the Internet
> can make meme spread very fast.
>
> There are a lot of memes of this class, chunks of information that don't
> elicit particular behavior except people pass them on. Some of the memes
> related to computer viruses are of that class (the ones that
> would have you
> delete an OS file). Of course, there are memes that people passed around
> for a long time about dangers where the meme inhibited behavior.
> A modern
> one being "don't play in the streets." A much older one would be
> for tribe
> members to pass on to other members that picking berries in a
> certain place
> was not a good idea until the bears left. :-)
>
> Keith Henson
>
>
>
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