Links: memetics

• alt.memetics home page - great place to start
• The AFU & Urban Legands Archive: Science
• Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission - the first peer-reviewed journal about memetics - online and free! (Dawkins is on advisory board)
• Yahoo!: Memetics
• Essays / Papers:
  • Papers by Keith Henson - Memes, Meta-Memes and Politics and Cryonics, religions and memetics (with Arel Lucas)
  • On Viral Sentences and Self-Replicating Structures by Douglas R. Hofstadter
  • Chain Letter Evolution by Daniel W. VanArsdale
  • Of Man, Mind and Machine: Meme-Based Models of Mind and the Possibility for Consciousness in Alternate Media
• Books:
  • The Meme Machine by Susan J. Blackmore. foreword by Richard Dawkins (April 1999)
    read the first chapter. Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk
    • Susan Blackmore reflects on the book which introduced her to the idea of memes
  • Thought Contagion - How Belief Spreads Through Society: The New Science of Memes by Aaron Lynch endorsed by Richard Dawkins. Related: Memes: Self-Replicants or Mysticism? / Thought Contagion and Mass Belief / Thought Contagion Theory and the Heaven's Gate Tragedy based on this article from Newsweek: Viruses of the Mind: How Odd Ideas Survive by Geoffrey Cowley
  • Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme by Richard Brodie. Visit his Meme Central.
  • Cultural Selection an electronic book by Agner Fog
• Newsgroups:
  • alt.memetics