Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id QAA18866 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 13 Feb 2002 16:26:28 GMT Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 18:19:13 +0000 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Mainstream usage perhaps Message-ID: <20020212181913.A547@ii01.org> References: <C4C20D0AEF0BF84B90CFEA0105EEB0BD29AE21@selene.shu.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <C4C20D0AEF0BF84B90CFEA0105EEB0BD29AE21@selene.shu.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i From: Robin Faichney <robin@ii01.org> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 02:54:42PM -0000, Price, Ilfryn wrote:
> In the Times Higher Education Supplement of February 8 2002 (For readers not in 'UK' academe this is the major weekly of news, reviews and
> advertisments for the sector and, at times at least, a litmus of academic opinion) the following sentence is used (p20 by Tony Durham)
>
> Compared to other business buxxwords it has been slow to spread through the meme pool, but perhaps its time has come.
>
> The context is less important. Durham is discussing 'corporate diplomacy' as a new discipline of business studies. The point is that this
> is the first time I have noted the use of meme pool as part of general, and by implication accepted, academic discourse. A minor point
> indeed but perhaps an early indicator.
Would that be an indication of memetic thinking, or just another
"business buxxword"?
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