The structure of the meme, the unit of culture - Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology (Velikovsky 2017)

June 2017 - I have a new encyclopedia chapter out: The structure of the meme, the unit of culture, in The Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 4th Edition (Velikovsky 2017).

The structure of the meme, the unit of culture
in:
The Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 4th Edition (Velikovsky 2017)
For more information, see also this post:

StoryAlity#144 – The structure of the meme, the unit of culture (Encyc of InfoSci & Tech 2017)

And see also, a longer (2016) version of the chapter, in the book: Creative Technologies for Multidisciplinary Applications (2016):


See also: StoryAlity #132 – The holon/parton structure of the Meme, the unit of culture – and the narreme, or unit of story – book chapter,  (Velikovsky 2016)

The Abstract of the above (2016) article:

`A universal problem in the disciplines of communication, creativity, philosophy, biology, psychology, sociology, anthropology, archaeology, history, linguistics, information science, cultural studies, literature, media and other domains of knowledge in both the arts and sciences has been the definition of ‘culture’ (see Kroeber & Kluckhohn, 1952; Baldwin et al., 2006), including the specification of ‘the unit of culture’, and, mechanisms of culture. 

This chapter proposes a theory of the unit of culture, or, the ‘meme’  (Dawkins, 1976; Dennett, 1995; Blackmore, 1999), a unit which is also the narreme (Barthes, 1966), or ‘unit of story’, or ‘unit of narrative’. 

The holon/parton theory of the unit of culture (Velikovsky, 2014) is a consilient (Wilson, 1998) synthesis of (Koestler, 1964, 1967, 1978) and Feynman (1975, 2005) and also the Evolutionary Systems Theory model of creativity (Csikszentmihalyi, 1988-2014; Simonton, 1984-2014). 

This theory of the unit of culture potentially has applications across all creative cultural domains and disciplines in the sciences, arts and communication media.’ 

(Velikovsky in Marks & Connor [eds] 2016, p. 208)

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-----------------------------Dr. Joe T. Velikovsky, Ph.D. (Communication & Media Arts)

`The word communication will be used here in a very broad sense to include all of the procedures by which one mind may affect another. This, of course, involves not only written and oral speech, but also music, the pictorial arts, the theater, the ballet, and in fact all human behavior... The language of this memorandum will often appear to refer to the special, but still very broad and important, field of the communication of speech; but practically everything said applies equally well to music of any sort, and to still or moving pictures, as in television." - The Mathematical Theory of Communication, (Shannon & Weaver 1949, pp. 3-4).

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