The Folk Traditions Store

In Savannah's Historic District

12 Price Street (1/2 block south of Bay Street). Phone: 912-341-8898.

Web Changes

Check out the Folk Traditions Times Archive to see people and events in the first years of the store.

Memetics Profiles Project

This Project has been moved to www.memeticsconsulting.com

David's article published in the Journal of Memetics.

The on-line Journal of Memetics -- Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission has published David's article on Competing Memes Analysis. This is a method for doing research on memes. It is described for general audiences in David's Memes in Your Life (click on the title to read a description of the book). The summary (Abstract) of the article is below (click on the heading above to go to the full text in the journal).

Aunger (2000) and Edmonds (2002) argue that memetics is a theory without a methodology, in imminent danger of dying from lack of novel interpretations and empirical work. Edmonds challenges memeticists to conduct empirical tests. This article presents Competing Memes Analysis, an empirical methodology that can readily be applied to significant social problems. The methodology is implemented in three steps. Step 1 identifies the organization of memes within an activity. Each activity is assumed to exhibit numerous small groups of memes where each meme within a group competes with all other memes in the group and can be combined with any meme from any other group. The succession of memes that occurs with increasing experience can be a powerful clue to identifying competing memes. Step 2 collects records of activities and codes them for the presence or absence of each meme identified in Step 1. Any activity that people acquire from each other by imitation can be readily coded for the presence or absence of competing memes. Step 3 analyzes changing frequencies of each coded meme over time or space. Models of these changes can give useful clues to suggest empirical studies that will provide important social and scientific results. Ecology’s Lotka-Volterra model of competing species illustrates the usefulness to memetics of population models.

Coastal Senior publishes article on The Folk Traditions Store

The Folk Traditions Times

        See July Issue

The Folk Traditions Store Establishes Internet Presence

See the events for more details.

 

Events

These are the press releases we've issued. Monthly FTS events will be described here. After mid 2003, you may want to search for topics by keyword.

•  09/09/02 -- Events

Recent Media Coverage of The Folk Traditions Store

• The region's folk traditions encouraged this pair to change gears late in life: David and Annette Dirlam promote balance of traditional skills with modern lifestyles, Coastal Senior, March, 2003, page 8.

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Last modified: 11/15/05