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Hi Everyone,
Came across this piece on my travels over the weekend-
Messina, L & O'Rangers, E (1998) 'Believing the Lie: Meme Theory and the
Conspiracy Virus in The X-Files', Diegesis, Winter, no.3, pp: 24-33
It's a rather misplaced metaphorical usage of memetics to assess the spread
of the alien conspiracy idea in the series. Still, it's about memes which
is more than can be said about recent threads- interesting as they've been.
I may become more of a lurker on the list over the next few weeks (hurrahs
from the gallery- well the cheap seats anyway), as I'm overladen at work
having become acting course director of a Master's degree.
Having said this I'm slowly working on a piece intended for publication
built out of the research paper I gave a couple of months back on memetics
(which really impressed people on the list- I know this from the lack of a
single response to its posting! Ah well, I hope to pad it out a bit more and
find something more substantive to say, although again I'll be aiming it at
the media studies community initially).
On this, does anyone know anything about theories of crowd behaviour,
particularly early theories on this? A colleague mentioned something about
this in relation to my presentation, but has cleared off on sabbatical.
Vincent
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