Concept
Memes don’t propagate in isolation — a meme’s infection and decay rates are functions of the other memes already competing for the same attention. Fitness is relative to the current population, not an intrinsic property. (Catalog gap flagged by the epidemiological-virality extraction.)
Connections
- Defined in: Selection As The Other Engine
- Discussed in: Virality Trade-off, Ch 5b — Selection As The Other Engine
- Evidenced by: An epidemiological approach to model viral propagation of memes, Information Evolution in Social Media, Psychology of Virality
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