Verdoorn, Joost (author) Memes are theorized to be the building blocks of culture. Due to a lack of empirical validation, however, the theory of memes — memetics — remains in its infancy. We argue that one of the missing components for such empirical validation is a method for the large-scale identification of memes.<br/><br/>In this thesis, we develop a method for the...
master thesis 2018