Individual-Based Models of Cultural Evolution shows readers how to create individual-based models of cultural evolution using the programming language R. The field of cultural evolution has emerged in the last few decades as a thriving, interdisciplinary effort to understand cultural change and cultural diversity within an evolutionary framework and using evolutionary tools, concepts, and methods.Given its roots in evolutionary biology, much of cultural evolution is ground...

From emails to social media, from instant messaging to political memes, the way we produce and transmit culture is radically changing. Understanding the consequences of the massive diffusion of digital media is of the utmost importance, both from the intellectual and the social point of view. 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' proposes that a specific discipline - cultural evolution - provides an excellent framework to analyse our digital age. Cultural evolution is a vibrant, interdis...

Smartphones are destroying childhood. Social media are poisoning democracy. Algorithms are radicalising us all. Every week seems to bring a new warning about the damage digital media are causing to our lives. How justified are these warnings? In Technopanic, Alberto Acerbi takes aim at the scare machine. Throughout history, new communication technologies have been seen as threats to reason and public order, but in the end, people have adapted. With wit and a sceptical eye, he show...

Apply AI to Domain-Driven Design with LLMs, prompt engineering, and multi-agent systems. Build repeatable domain modeling workflows that strengthen software architecture decisions, domain clarity, and consistency.Key FeaturesApply LLMs as structured reasoning partners for Domain-Driven DesignAdvance domain modeling with structured prompts and EventStormingDesign AI agents and multi-agent systems for DDD workflowsStrengthen software arc...