Alberto Acerbi

Website: acerbialberto.com "Cultural evolution in the digital age" (OUP): bit.ly/2McstmR "Individual-based models of cultural evolution. A step-by-step guide using R" (Routledge): bit.ly/3MQBjT4 Substack (free - in italiano): bit.ly/3lDERMq

We don’t have a big publisher behind us, so it is even more important that if you like it (or if you don’t, I guess), you leave a review, post it on social media, tell friends. Thank you all, and welcome to the world, Technopanic! mybook.to/technopanic

Today is Technopanic publication day! I have many things to say about it (and I will in the next weeks) but for now: the Kindle edition costs as much as a coffee (or two espresso in Italy…), so no excuse not to grab a copy and judge for yourself. -->

@RafaRuizdeLira Thank you!

@acerbialberto Nice! Congrats!

It exists.

I link della settimana (#141) open.substack.com/pub/albertoace…

@Dijo_Austerlitz Thank you!

@acerbialberto Congrats!!

People believe that their political in-group is being targeted more by misinformation than their political out-group. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Last lecture of the term done and now ready to travel to Torino! cs2italy.org

I had the privilege of reading an English manuscript. This is a great book worthy of reading!

@MartinPalecek Thank you Martin!

Technopanic is out in exactly one week! May 25th will be the official release date. Available for preorder amazon.co.uk/Technopanic-Ju…

This, plus the trends broken down by country (you can easily find them e.g., in ourworldindata.org), suggests that even the last popular "smartphone is the culprit" is based on thin evidence.

I link della settimana (#140) open.substack.com/pub/albertoace…

Just finished the Lord of the flies series. I guess the Adolescence guy just does not like kids (or humans?).

Trying to do a table comparing effect sizes of content determinants of engagement in social media, but I am realising that that would require another full paper. Does something like that exist? If not, contact me if you would like to write such a paper :)

Looking forward to host @ralexbentley in two weeks (see details below). Some more cultural evolution in Trento! "Collaborators through Time: How Humans Partnered with Nature, Technology, and Each Other"

@koenfucius Indeed, this is my first results for "Technopanic" search. I promise I am not a big consumer of night lights...and of...ehm..."mens hipster metallic sequins" 😂

@acerbialberto I did find it with their search in the end (Amazon’s insistence in changing Acerbi to Acerbis didn’t help 😂), but even searching for Technopanic didn’t produce any books, let alone yours!🙄

Kindle version of Technopanic already available for preorder! And at a bargain price... $4.00 / €3.47 / £3.00

This says more about how Amazon rankings work...but I'll take it.

@koenfucius It's there! :) amazon.co.uk/Technopanic-Ju…

@acerbialberto Finding it on Amazon UK is clearly an initiative test! 😱