Editing Memetics (section)

===Memetic analysis===
*The possibility of quantitative analysis of memes using [[functional neuroimaging|neuroimaging]] tools and the suggestion that such studies have already been done was given by McNamara (2011).<ref name="mcnamara">{{harvnb|McNamara|2011}}</ref>  This author proposes [[hyperscanning]] (concurrent scanning of two communicating individuals in two separate MRI machines) as a key tool in the future for investigating memetics.
*Proponents of memetics as described in the ''Journal of Memetics'' (out of print since 2005<ref name=JOM>{{cite web|title=Journal of Memetics|url=http://cfpm.org/jom-emit/|access-date=10 March 2014|archive-date=10 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810103732/http://cfpm.org/jom-emit/|url-status=dead}}</ref>) believe that 'memetics' has the potential to be an important and promising analysis of culture using the framework of evolutionary concepts.
*[[Keith Henson]] in ''Memetics and the Modular-Mind'' (Analog Aug. 1987)<ref>{{cite web|author=Keith Henson View profile More options|url=http://groups.google.ca/group/alt.mindcontrol/msg/103e03bce6100cac?hl=en&|title=Promise Keepers: Is it a Cult? - alt.mindcontrol |via=Google Groups |date=1997-10-05|access-date=2010-02-18|archive-date=2014-03-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140310090600/http://groups.google.ca/group/alt.mindcontrol/msg/103e03bce6100cac?hl=en&|url-status=dead}}</ref> makes the case that memetics needs to incorporate [[evolutionary psychology]] to understand the psychological traits of a meme's host.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/cults.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709131213/http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/cults.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-07-09|title=Sex, Drugs, and Cults by H. Keith Henson|publisher=Human-nature.com|access-date= 2010-02-18}}</ref>
*The primary analytic approaches of internet memetics has been more in association with visual culture and communication methodologies. These researchers justify the existence of memes by way of culturally association,<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Gal |first1=Noam |last2=Shifman |first2=Limor |last3=Kampf |first3=Zohar |date=September 2016 |title="It Gets Better": Internet memes and the construction of collective identity |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461444814568784 |journal=New Media & Society |language=en |volume=18 |issue=8 |pages=1698–1714 |doi=10.1177/1461444814568784 |s2cid=206728484 |issn=1461-4448 |access-date=2023-07-16 |archive-date=2023-07-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230716013410/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461444814568784 |url-status=live|url-access=subscription }}</ref> social networks<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Shifman |first=Limor |date=December 2014 |title=The Cultural Logic of Photo-Based Meme Genres |journal=Journal of Visual Culture |language=en |volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=340–358 |doi=10.1177/1470412914546577 |issn=1470-4129|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Wiggins |first1=Bradley E |last2=Bowers |first2=G Bret |date=December 2015 |title=Memes as genre: A structurational analysis of the memescape |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461444814535194 |journal=New Media & Society |language=en |volume=17 |issue=11 |pages=1886–1906 |doi=10.1177/1461444814535194 |s2cid=30729349 |issn=1461-4448 |access-date=2023-07-16 |archive-date=2023-07-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230716013410/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461444814535194 |url-status=live|url-access=subscription }}</ref> or networked artifacts,<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Segev |first1=Elad |last2=Nissenbaum |first2=Asaf |last3=Stolero |first3=Nathan |last4=Shifman |first4=Limor |date=July 2015 |title=Families and Networks of Internet Memes: The Relationship Between Cohesiveness, Uniqueness, and Quiddity Concreteness |journal=Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication |language=en |volume=20 |issue=4 |pages=417–433 |doi=10.1111/jcc4.12120|doi-access=free}}</ref> most notably online image artifacts.