technology has had many influences on the iranian society in different eras. today, information and telecommunication technologies have revolutionized the basic structures of society and a new network society has been propagated inside the traditional and semi-modern context. in countries like iran, which are in the process of modernization, a chaos deriving from the transition period is observ...

Visual Thinking Algorithms (VTA’s) are a tool for designing interactive visualizations by describing the operation of a human-computer cognitive system, accounting for strengths and limitations of the human visual system and cognitive processing. In this paper, we apply this methodology to visualization of memes and related topics and communities (groups of users with common topics) arising in ...

This paper focuses on an important problem of detecting offensive analogy meme online social media where the visual content and texts/captions together make to convey information. Existing detection solutions often ignore implicit relation between textual contents are insufficient identify memes. Two challenges exist in accurately memes: i) it is not trivial capture that implicitly conveyed by ...

This paper presents an elegant method for visually representing the life and times of a meme, an element of cultural transmission. The elements of a Meme Map are described, and the steps for constructing a generic Meme Map are listed. A worked example of a Meme Map is provided. A Meme Map is a powerful and flexible tool for capturing, displaying and sharing memetic information illustrating the ...

Cultural evolution occurs through the transmission of cultural traits, and we consider the meme as the unit of cultural transmission. We construct an agent-based model representing the processes by which cultural transmission occurs and to link these to the community-scale phenomena arising from agent interactions. We base our model on small communities of e-Puck robots, and following work on m...

Individuals are able to effect massive online social change through the viral sharing of memes. Sharing is initially influenced by meme creators and secondarily by meme consumers, whose individual sharing decisions accumulate to determine total meme sharing. By investigating meme creation as a separate process from meme sharing, we hope to create an account of online sharing that includes featu...