Welcome
When you found this page, you were hopefully looking for a scientific approach to meme-theory or something to the likes. Let me start off with a friendly warning, this stuff is old and dates from the beginnings of this century. Roughly speaking, don't expect anything on these pages from at least 20 years old and be aware that this is a long time for any research-related writing. Several new papers have been published, new books have been written and new research has undoubtedly shed a new light on how cultural replicators reproduce and spread (or, even more interesting, do not spread) through today's culture.
Look at this page as a historical artefact of how the field of memetics emerged in the beginning of the 21st century. I have long since left academia and can unfortunately not help you find any new resources or information.
Since Richard Dawkins talked about them in his revolutionary book The Selfish Gene a lot has been said and written about cultural evolution and the spreading of culture based on the principles of natural selection. A school of thought called memetics has become more and more prominent in various fields such as anthropology, psychology, linguistics, marketing, computer science and architecture. The field has developed from a theoretical field to an applied science. Memetics is predominantly used as an applied science in marketing and computer science and has thus faced the challenges from quite some of its critics.
As one of the researchers that has stood up to the challenges set by various other scientists I have applied memetics to the field of linguistics and have been able to make a quantitative study, thus refuting the claim that memetics is only a vague theory with loosely based concepts.
Klaas