What is a meme?

According to Knobel and Lankshear ( 2007 ), the word meme is employed by Internet users mainly to describe the rapid uptake and spread of a “particular idea presented as a written text, image, language 'move,' or some other unit of cultural 'stuff''” (p. 202).

Could AI decode memes?

Even if AI could successfully decode memes, that’s only one part of the puzzle. Internet memes are moving at, well, the speed of the internet —meaning AI has to keep up. Something that was funny last week could be considered old news in a matter of days.

What is a meme's scope?

Therefore, the definition of a certain meme's scope may rely on the memetic dimension through which it is examined. For instance, if our prism is that of content, or ideas, we may argue that the same memetic content can be expressed in a video, a text, or a Photoshop image.

What is decoding in linguistics?

What is decoding? Decoding is the process of translating print into speech by rapidly matching a letter or combination of letters (graphemes) to their sounds (phonemes) and recognizing the patterns that make syllables and words. There is an area in the brain that deals with language processing and does this process automatically.