Gap Fill - Memes - Level 5

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Memes are a growing of our life and culture, especially online. We know memes as the that go on social media sites. People use them to make jokes or make social and political . However, author Richard Dawkins, the of the word 'meme', is with the Internet defining a meme as a "picture with words". Mr Dawkins coined the 'meme' in his book 'The Selfish Gene'. He said memes are ideas that replicate and spread from brain to brain, like genes. He never uses the word 'meme' to refer to a picture with on it.

Universities now offer degree on memes. Northwestern University started its Meme Studies in 2011. Britain's Sky News says memes help to make politics for young people. A Twitter user said: "Memes helped people understand more ideas, and that having politics framed in a way makes it more [understandable]." Memes were an way for people to express their during the 2016 U.S. presidential . The vice.com website said: "Memes now have as much power, and reach as the posters of yesteryear."

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