Meme
Transcript: Sometimes ‘jump’ from one medium or genre to another Some even jump into different dimensions! Memes are born, grow/spread and sometimes die. Sometimes they “go viral”. It can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or the Internet. Is an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture. Sheikh Khalifa meme British scientist Richard Dawkins coined the word meme in his 1976. He wanted a word like ‘gene’ that conveyed the way in which ideas and behavior spread within society.Since then, the word has been picked up to describe a piece of information spread by e-mail or via blogs and social networking sites. A meme can be almost anything—a joke, a video clip, a cartoon, a news story—and can also evolve as it spreads, with users editing the content or adding comments. Meme Example of meme Of course, a meme for the next generation, the President of the UAE. Example of meme The late Sheikh Zayed (may he rest in peace), is a meme of central importance to the UAE. This image is so commonly seen in the UAE that students may not have considered the cultural information this image carries. meme Tom and Jerry is a series of theatrical animated cartoon films created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, centering on a never-ending rivalry between a cat (Tom) and a mouse (Jerry) whose chases and battles often involved comic violence. Sheikh Zayed Memes can :