Alberto Acerbi

@acerbialberto

Cognitive anthropology / cultural evolution / digital media / cultural analytics. Associate professor sociology @UniTrento - more info in the pinned tweet.

Trento, Italy acerbialberto.com Joined October 2012

1.8K Following 6K Followers 9.3K Posts

Latest posts 5

Pinned post

Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto May 25, 2022

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

Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto 2d

Sociologists of culture proposing a Cultural Attraction Theory approach! And on AJS! And on hard data (macroevolutionary birth-death models to ~30k metal bands)!
journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…

www.journals.uchicago.edu The Evolutionary Dynamics of Cultural Change (As Told Through the Birth and Brutal, Blackened Death...

Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto 3d

Amazon book releases *tripled* 2022-2025; over half of 2025 releases contain AI text. However, it adds little to what readers actually choose (AI books get few readers). Jan 2026 preprint nber.org/papers/w34777

Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto 4d

Improving mental health in teens getting mainstream...
nytimes.com/2026/11/05/opi…

www.nytimes.com Opinion | Teen Mental Health Isn’t in Crisis. It Is Actually Improving. According to the best data we have, teen mental health is improving.

Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto 4d

Ci fidiamo più delle macchine che delle persone?; su cosa sono d’accordo (purtroppo) gli esperti di disinformazione; modelli ad agenti; le midterm e l’IA; ricette inventate da Claude.
albertoacerbi.substack.com/p/i-link-della…