-organization theory, this paper employs an evolutionary approach that integrates three theories. This paper first employs memetics to … generalized Darwinism to complete its evolutionary theory of pre-organization. Findings Memetics, inducement-contribution theory …

Purpose Our purpose is to reconnect memetics to information, a persistent and unclear association. Information can … memetics by considering a long standing conceptual issue in memetics: information. A systematic review of memetics is provided … publications. From these publications, we provide a citation analysis of memetic studies. Theoretical directions of memetics in the …

through memetics. Information studies in memetics have often found datafication in memetics research difficult. Meanwhile … documents. Design/methodology/approach This work offers a joint theory and methodology invested in information-oriented memetics …