From: Enric Senabre Hidalgo (esenabre@uoc.edu)
Date: Tue 01 Jun 2004 - 22:07:17 GMT
Hello,
I’m a PhD candidate at The Open University of Catalonia
(www.uoc.edu), currently collecting data, via web survey, for a
study on chain messages through electronic mail. Although the study
is only in Spanish (directed mainly to e-mail users from Spain and
South America) I would appreciate your comments about the memetics
concerning the replication and natural selection of this type of
messages:
I have always considered (and my initial data confirms) that the
replication here is determined mainly by the active role of the
known sender, who selects the addressees and usually modifies some
critical aspects of the text (mainly subject, head and message
format) before forwardind it. It seems to me that this guarantees
the surviving of these chains and that the sender could be
considered here as a replicator (for he determines the natural
selection of the messages), but I will apreciate very much your
opinions about it, because I am not very familiar with the basis of
memetics.
Thank you in advance,
Enric Senabre
esenabre@uoc.edu
http://cv.uoc.edu/~esenabre/re/cuestionario.html
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