From: Stephanie Vie (svie@u.arizona.edu)
Date: Wed 01 Oct 2003 - 15:18:23 GMT
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>Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 07:36:41 -0700
>To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>From: Stephanie Vie <svie@u.arizona.edu>
>Subject: memetics comps exam list--pop culture, advertising, rhetoric &
>composition
>
>Hello!
>
>I've just recently joined this list. I am studying for my comprehensive
>exams for a PhD in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English. One
>of my areas is memetic theory. I am looking for bibliographic references
>that have to do with the intersection of pop culture,
>advertising/propaganda, rhetoric & composition, and fiction with memetic
>theory (fun to read and/or available at my library or online is good...)
>Could anyone take a look at what I've got so far and maybe make
>suggestions? I'd be forever indebted! Thanks :)
>
>Stephanie Vie
>You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and
>discipline are taken out of your life.
>- James G. Bilkey
Part III. Memetic Theory as a Analytical Framework [15 books, 15 articles]
Memetic theory has been applied outside of the field of rhetoric and
composition to explain social change and adaptation, particularly in
analysis of computer viruses and media/advertising. However, little
attention to memetics has been paid in our field historically, leaving it
as a theoretical framework rich for application to the current adaptation
and use of technology in the writing classroom. As we shift from a more
traditional writing classroom to hybridized classrooms utilizing
technologies and virtual spaces, we must look critically at the reasoning
behind adopting particular technologies and their potential effects on the
instructor, students, and classroom. The texts on this list offer
background reading in memetic theory (Aunger, Blackmore, Dawkins) as well
as connections and intersections between memetic theory and
advertising/media studies (Ellul), computer technology (Friedman,
Johnson-Eilola, Postman), fiction (Burroughs, Stephenson), and
sociocultural behavior (Balkin, Brodie, Hill, Lynch, Paicheler).
Some of the questions I pose in this list are:
· How do I define memetic theory as well as the concept of a meme?
· What is the history of memetic theory?
· How has memetic theory been used as a theoretical framework
outside of rhetoric and composition? Particularly, how has memetic theory
been used in: pop culture (i.e. fiction), analysis of computer viruses, and
analysis of media and/or advertising?
· How can memetic theory be applied to the intersection of
technology and pedagogy in writing instruction?
Aunger, Robert, ed. Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a
Science. New York: Oxford UP, 2000.
Balkin, J. M. Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology. New Haven, CT: Yale
UP, 1998.
Blackmore, Susan. The Meme Machine. New York: Oxford UP, 1999.
Brodie, Richard. Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme. Seattle:
Integral Press, 1996.
Burroughs, William S. The Ticket that Exploded. New York: Grove Press, 1967.
Castelfranchi, Cristiano. Towards a Cognitive Memetics: Socio-Cognitive
Mechanisms for Memes Selection and Spreading.Journal of Memetics:
Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission 5.1 (2001): page #s.
Clark, S. R. L. Minds, Memes and Rhetoric.Inquiry 36 (1993): 3-16.
Dawkins, Richard. The Selfish Gene. New York: Oxford UP, 1999.
---. Viruses of the Mind.Free Inquiry 13.3 (1993): 34-41.
Dennett, Daniel C. Memes and the Exploitation of Imagination.Journal of
Aesthetics and Art Criticism 48 (1990): 127-35.
Dixon, Kathleen. Making and Taking Apart Culturein the (Writing)
Classroom.Left Margins: Cultural Studies and Composition Pedagogy. Albany,
NY: State U of New York P, 1995: 99-114.
Du Preez, Peter. The Evolution of Altruism.Political Psychology 17.3
(1996): 563-567.
Ellul, Jacques. Propaganda: The Formation of Mens Attitudes. New York:
Vintage Books, 1973.
Friedman, Matthew. Fuzzy Logic: Dispatches from the Information
Revolution. Montréal: Véhicule Press, 1997.
Gatherer, Derek. Why the Thought ContagionMetaphor is Retarding the
Progress of Memetics.Journal of Memetics: Evolutionary Models of
Information Transmission 2.2 (1998): page #s.
Heylighen, Francis. Selfish Memes and the Evolution of
Cooperation.Journal of Ideas 2.4 (1992): 77-84.
Hill, Michael W. The Impact of Information on Society: An Examination of
its Nature, Value, and Usage. London: Bowker Saur, 1999.
Johnson-Eilola, Johndan. Wild Technologies: Computer Use and Social
Possibility.Computers and Technical Communication: Pedagogical and
Programmatic Perspectives. Stuart Selber, ed. Greenwich, CT: Ablex, 1997:
97-128.
Lynch, Aaron. Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society. New
York: Basic Books, 1996.
Paicheler, Geneviéve. The Psychology of Social Influence. New York: Oxford
UP, 1988.
Patterson, M.L. Accelerating Innovation: A Dip into the Meme
Pool.National Productivity Review 19.4 (1990): 53-58.
Postman, Neil. The Ideology of Machines: Computer Technology.Technopoly:
The Surrender of Culture to Technology. New York: Knopf, 1992: 107-122.
Sloop, John M. and Mark Olson. Cultural Struggle: A Politics of Meaning in
Rhetorical Studies.At the Intersection: Cultural Studies and Rhetorical
Studies. New York: Guilford, 1999.
Stephenson, Neal. Snow Crash. New York: Bantam Books, 1992. [PS3569.T3868]
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