Meet the editor

Anamaria Berea holds a PhD in economics (2010) and computational social science (2012) and her current research is focused on the emergence of communication in biological and social networks, by applying theories and methods from economics, complex systems, and information theory to understand fundamental patterns of communication in both living and non-living (in silico) systems. She is an interdisciplinary scientist and uses

a wide range of computational and data science methods (agent-based modeling, network analysis, natural language processing techniques, Bayesian networks, and other machine learning), as well as complex systems and economic modeling to study heterogeneous, noisy, complex phenomena, such as information diffusion in human networks or to find what is universally possible for life in astrobiology problems.

**Preface III**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Biological Foundations of Communication **7**

**Chapter 2 9**

Cultural Foundations of Communication **31**

**Chapter 3 33**

Communication and Society **49**

**Chapter 4 51**

**Chapter 5 73**

Introductory Chapter: The Role of Communication as a Fundamental

Extracellular Vesicles: Living Prototypal Communication System

Toward a Systems Perspective of Culture and Communication in the

Scholarly Communication and the Academic Library: Perceptions and

Digital Media and the Challenges for Fundamental Rights *by José Julio Fernández Rodríguez and Jackeline Argüello Lemus*

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

**Section 4**

Process for Life and Society

Field of International Business Studies

*by Liat Klain-Gabbay and Snunith Shoham*

*by Cheryl Marie Cordeiro*

Recent Developments

*by Anamaria Berea*

Contents

*by Paul A. Brown*
