Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for the thanks.
>Is memetics a subset of diffusion studies? Or are they simply two joined
>sets with a great deal of overlap?
I tend to see memetics as the micro-description that leads to diffusion
studies as a macro-description. As microeconomics leads to macroeconomics;
as statistical mechanics leads to thermodynamics.
OTOH, the scope of memetics is more ample than Rogers' studies: not all
ideas that propagate memetically are innovative. But I think that if
memetics were to focus on innovations on the micro-level, and find a way to
reproduce Rogers' S-shaped curve when generalized to the macro-level, it
would be a wonderful way to improve memetics' status as a science.
Easier said than done....
lena
-- Lena Rotenberg lrr@netkonnect.net