RE: memetics reference on news

From: Vincent Campbell (VCampbell@dmu.ac.uk)
Date: Fri 10 Oct 2003 - 12:01:12 GMT

  • Next message: derek gatherer: "RE: memetics reference on news"

    Funny you should say that, as I think I've seen this phrase crop up a few times recently- in the specific sense of the tipping point between an idiosyncratic or minority trend and a cultural trend or social phenomena as used by Gladwell in his book rather than in its traditional sense.

    I wonder if this phrase's other, everyday meaning, and the relative innoucous nature of the words involved might help this phrase more successfuly come to be used in referring to a theory of cultural transmission than memes? (which I don't think I've ever heard Jon Snow use- I normally watch C4 News alot, and have had the pleasure of meeting him in his role as an honorary lecturer for Stirling University's media department, but I was in the bath during last night's show, which is too much information I'm sure :-)).

    (For our non-Brit colleagues, Jon Snow is one of Britain's best known, and arguably best, TV news presenters/reporters in Britain).

    Anyway is the tipping point idea of cultural transmission compatible with memes? Does it need memes to work as a theory of cultural transmission/evolution?

    Vincent

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    > Jon Snow used the phrase 'tipping point' on last
    > night's Channel 4 news, at around 7.29pm. A historic moment.
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