From the word "mimeme" of Greek origin, Dawkins coined the term "meme" in his 1976 book on "The Selfish Gene" [1]. He defined it as being "the basic unit of cultural transmission or imitation". These days, the monosyllabic word "meme" that is an analog of the word "gene" has since taken flight to become one of the most successful metaphorical ideologies in computational intelligence. The new sc...

This article examines the social media practices through which young Hungarians deliberate workings of truth and meanings liberalism under Viktor Orbán’s authoritarian regime. Noting similarities between ubiquitous government propaganda billboards aesthetics parodic content, these youth increasingly perceive everyday situations as internet memes. Navigating generational differences, class antag...

This article discusses different types of “argumentativeness” in three memes related to overweight jokes posted a community meme generation (quickmeme.com) July 2021. We aim show how visual argument, image rhetoric, and social prejudice devices enable the creation “joking” that frame an audience's meaning-making towards prejudiced ideas. The methodological procedure was based on analytical proc...

Latar belakang: Salah satu pencegahan penularan Covid-19 adalah pemberian vaksinasi minimal 2 kali dosis wajib dan 1 booster bagi masyarakat umum tenaga kesehatan. Kebijakan ini menuai beragam reaksi dari masyarakat, di antaranya sindiran terhadap regulasi baru tersebut. Keadaan dimanfaatkan oleh beberapa akun untuk menyampaikan edukasi terkait kepada khalayak umum, salah satunya dengan meme sa...

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the largest receptor superfamily. In this paper, we try to employ physical-chemical properties, which come from SVM-Prot, to represent GPCR. Random Forest was utilized as classifier for distinguishing them from other protein sequences. MEME suite was used to detect the most significant 10 conserved motifs of human GPCRs. In the testing datasets, the avera...

My focus in this essay is to illustrate, through a detailed analysis of one particular article, the range of fallacious tactics that are used in attacks against religious faith. This article espouses a characterization of faith as a “mind virus,” more technically called a meme. Before analyzing this article, some brief background on memes seems appropriate. The term meme was first introduced by...

Evolution is ubiquitous. It has become the language of as many as the scientific discussions in our civilization to day. The term was come from biology, explaining how and why we have biological system as we perceive, how our species become the only creatures to which the earth count on her life. But the highest potential in the idea of evolution is not merely in biological systems. The greates...

This chapter presents an overview of machinima, an important socio-cultural movement that originated in the 1990s gameplay movement known as demoscene. The chapter presents a review of literature and key issues related to its evolution. Modes of its production (perfect capture, screen capture, asset compositing, bespoke machinimation) are described, along with the range of different genres that...

Setting aside the problems of recognising consciousness in a machine, this article considers what would be needed for a machine to have human-like consciousness. Human-like consciousness is an illusion; that is, it exists but is not what it appears to be. The illusion that we are a conscious self having a stream of experiences is constructed when memes compete for replication by human hosts. So...