Families and Networks of Internet Memes: The Relationship Between Cohesiveness, Uniqueness, and Quiddity Concreteness

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 417-433

  Segev, Elad ^a   Nissenbaum, Asaf ^b   Stolero, Nathan ^a   Shifman, Limor ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cohesiveness; Family resemblance; Internet memes; Network analysis; Uniqueness

Indexed keywords

INTERNET;

COHESIVENESS; FAMILY RESEMBLANCE; GENERIC ATTRIBUTES; GENERIC FEATURES; INTERNET MEME; LARGE-SCALES; MEMETIC; STRUCTURAL PATTERN; UNIQUENESS; VIDEO IMAGE;

CONCRETES;

EID: 84937252930     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10836101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jcc4.12120     Document Type: Article

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