Memetics

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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  memetics /me-met'iks/ n. [from {meme}] The study of memes. As of early
     1999, this is still an extremely informal and speculative endeavor,
     though the first steps towards at least statistical rigor have been made
     by H. Keith Henson and others. Memetics is a popular topic for
     speculation among hackers, who like to see themselves as the architects
     of the new information ecologies in which memes live and replicate.


  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  memetics
       
           /me-met'iks/ The study of {memes}.
       
          As of mid-1993, this is still an extremely informal and
          speculative endeavor, though the first steps toward at least
          statistical rigor have been made by H. Keith Henson and
          others.  Memetics is a popular topic for speculation among
          hackers, who like to see themselves as the architects of the
          new information ecologies in which memes live and replicate.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (2000-01-09)