English
Related papers

Related papers: Competition and Success in the Meme Pool: a Case S…

200 papers

Online social media have greatly affected the way in which we communicate with each other. However, little is known about what are the fundamental mechanisms driving dynamical information flow in online social systems. Here, we introduce a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-05-18 James P. Gleeson , Kevin P. O'Sullivan , Raquel A. Baños , Yamir Moreno

Internet memes, now a staple of digital communication, play a pivotal role in how users engage within online communities and allow researchers to gain insight into contemporary digital culture. These engaging user-generated content are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Muzhaffar Hazman , Susan McKeever , Josephine Griffith

Models of meme propagation on social networks, in which memes compete for limited user attention, can successfully reproduce the heavy-tailed popularity distributions observed in online settings. While system-wide popularity distributions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-06-24 Kleber A. Oliveira , Samuel Unicomb , James P. Gleeson

Memes are one of the most ubiquitous forms of social media communication. The study and processing of memes, which are intrinsically multimedia, is a popular topic right now. The study presented in this research is based on the Memotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Nayan Varma Alluri , Neeli Dheeraj Krishna

Heavy-tailed distributions of meme popularity occur naturally in a model of meme diffusion on social networks. Competition between multiple memes for the limited resource of user attention is identified as the mechanism that poises the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-07-30 James P. Gleeson , Jonathan A. Ward , Kevin P. O'Sullivan , William T. Lee

The propagation of online memes is initially influenced by meme creators and secondarily by meme consumers, whose individual sharing decisions accumulate to determine total meme propagation. We characterize this as a sender/receiver…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-01 Ian Miller , Gerald Cupchik

Memes are a dominant medium for online communication and manipulation because meaning emerges from interactions between embedded text, imagery, and cultural context. Existing meme research is distributed across tasks (hate, misogyny,…

This paper presents a new type of evolutionary algorithm (EA) based on the concept of "meme", where the individuals forming the population are represented by semantic networks and the fitness measure is defined as a function of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-02 Atilim Gunes Baydin , Ramon Lopez de Mantaras

The analysis of the creation, mutation, and propagation of social media content on the Internet is an essential problem in computational social science, affecting areas ranging from marketing to political mobilization. A first step towards…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Abhimanyu Dubey , Esteban Moro , Manuel Cebrian , Iyad Rahwan

Culture is core to human civilization, and is essential for human intellectual achievements in social context. Culture also influences how humans work together, perform particular task and overall lifestyle and dealing with other groups of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Hrishikesh Kulkarni , Bradly Alicea

Memes have become a distinctive and effective form of communication in the digital era, attracting online communities and cutting across cultural barriers. Even though memes are frequently linked with humor, they have an amazing capacity to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Kazi Toufique Elahi , Tasnuva Binte Rahman , Shakil Shahriar , Samir Sarker , Sajib Kumar Saha Joy , Faisal Muhammad Shah

Online social media is a social vehicle in which people share various moments of their lives with their friends, such as playing sports, cooking dinner or just taking a selfie for fun, via visual means, that is, photographs. Our study takes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Quanzeng You , Darío García-García , Mahohar Paluri , Jiebo Luo , Jungseock Joo

The rise of social media platforms has brought about a new digital culture called memes. Memes, which combine visuals and text, can strongly influence public opinions on social and cultural issues. As a result, people have become interested…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Ming Shan Hee , Aditi Kumaresan , Nguyen Khoi Hoang , Nirmalendu Prakash , Rui Cao , Roy Ka-Wei Lee

Internet memes have become a dominant method of communication; at the same time, however, they are also increasingly being used to advocate extremism and foster derogatory beliefs. Nonetheless, we do not have a firm understanding as to…

Online social networks have transformed the way in which humans communicate and interact, leading to a new information ecosystem where people send and receive information through multiple channels, including traditional communication media.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-01-03 Javier Borge-Holthoefer , Raquel A. Baños , Carlos Gracia-Lázaro , Yamir Moreno

How does network structure affect diffusion? Recent studies suggest that the answer depends on the type of contagion. Complex contagions, unlike infectious diseases (simple contagions), are affected by social reinforcement and homophily.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Lilian Weng , Filippo Menczer , Yong-Yeol Ahn

A meme is an part of media created to share an opinion or emotion across the internet. Due to its popularity, memes have become the new forms of communication on social media. However, due to its nature, they are being used in harmful ways…

Image memes have become a widespread tool used by people for interacting and exchanging ideas over social media, blogs, and open messengers. This work proposes to treat automatic image meme generation as a translation process, and further…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Aadhavan Sadasivam , Kausic Gunasekar , Hasan Davulcu , Yezhou Yang

The exponential rise of social media networks has allowed the production, distribution, and consumption of data at a phenomenal rate. Moreover, the social media revolution has brought a unique phenomenon to social media platforms called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Sunil Gundapu , Radhika Mamidi

Despite the increasingly important role played by image memes, we do not yet have a solid understanding of the elements that might make a meme go viral on social media. In this paper, we investigate what visual elements distinguish image…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Chen Ling , Ihab AbuHilal , Jeremy Blackburn , Emiliano De Cristofaro , Savvas Zannettou , Gianluca Stringhini