Assessing global diffusion with Web memetics: The spread and evolution of a popular joke

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2567-2576

  Shifman, Limor ^a   Thelwall, Mike ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNDAMENTAL COMPONENT; GLOBAL DIFFUSION; LOCAL ADAPTATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES; WEB PRESENCE; WEB SEARCHES;

INTERNET; LINGUISTICS; WEBSITES;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 72449133341     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21185     Document Type: Article

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