articles of interest - Jan 11
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
How This 26-Year-Old Los Angeles Artist Became a Periscope Celebrity - ABC News
The World’s Top-Earning YouTube Stars 2015 - Forbes
Who Controls Your Facebook Feed - Slate
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Hints Its 140 Character Limit Could End - Wired
How Facebook Makes Us Dumber - Bloomberg
***BIG DATA
What the software line drawn from 2006 to 2016 tells you about the next decade of Big Data - Datanami
Clever Algorithms do not eliminate the need for care when drawing connections between cause and effect - Harvard Business Review (Recognizing two particular limitations of algorithms is the first step to managing them better)
Predictive or Prescriptive analytics? Perhaps both - Business News Daily
Lots of people call themselves Data Scientists-how to know you have the real thing before building it into your org - Predictive Analytics World
Four analytics trends to watch in 2016: #3-IoT propels businesses to explore geospatial - IT pro Portal
Data storytelling in 2016: changes in the way journalists report the news & how businesses interact with their data - Computer World
***WRITIN’ AND READIN’
Code-Switching to Improve Your Writing and Productivity - Chronicle of Higher Ed
Writing Fantasies (subscription) - Chronicle of Higher Ed
***GRAMMAR
Sorry, grammar nerds. The singular ‘they’ has been declared Word of the Year - Washington Post
Word(s) of the Year 2015 - Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LANGUAGE
NPR's Code Switch Team Explores Political Correctness On College Campuses - NPR
***LITERATURE
Graphic Novelist Named National Ambassador For Young People's Literature - NPR
Are There Any Unforgivable Sins in Literature? - New York Times
Why lawyers love Shakespeare - Economist
Why the British Tell Better Children’s Stories - The Atlantic
***RESEARCH
You Can’t Trust What You Read About Nutrition - FiveThirtyEight
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Free yourself from negative people - Becoming (my Blog)
When Are You Really an Adult? - The Atlantic
Kendrick Lamar: I can't change the world until I change myself first - NPR
***JOURNALISM
Reclaiming spin - Columbia Journalism Review
18 Of The Most Hilarious Media Corrections Of 2015 - BuzzFeed
What to expect from data storytelling in 2016 - Computer World
A journalism professor was fired this week - Michael Koretzky (opinion)
New Book Highlights Historic Black Newspaper - NPR
ProPublica Launches the Dark Web’s First Major News Site - Wired
A new program at Medill places engineering and journalism students together in the Bay Area - Poynter
Outfits, Graphics, and the News Room: Why the News Looks the Way It Does - JStor
These will be the 5 biggest sports journalism stories in 2016 - Poynter
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Consumers Can't Tell Native Ads From Editorial Content - Media Post
Fox Chicago producer's sexist cold call on women's hats iced by GM - Chicago Tribune
The state of automated journalism - Harvard's Nieman Lab
New York Times: The homepage still plays a prominent role - Journalism.co
****STUDENT LIFE
The whole 'working as a barista after college' thing is a myth - Business Insider
****PSYCHOLOGY
Revolutionary Neuroscience Technique Slated for Human Clinical Trials - Scientific American
Do These Jeans Make Me Look Unethical? - NPR
Anatomy Of Addiction: How Heroin And Opioids Hijack The Brain - NPR
****PHILOSOPHY
Philosophers want to know why physicists believe theories they can’t prove - Quartz
The Enlightenment is often miscast as the ‘Age of Reason’ - Wall Street Journal (In truth, it dethroned rational philosophy in favor of sociology and psychology.)
***HIGHER ED
California Accreditor Loses Appeal - Inside Higher Ed
Public records deflate myths about "profitable" college athletics - Student Press Law Center
***HUMANITIES /STEM
'Manifesto for the Humanities' - Inside Higher Ed
Professors consider how to sell English major to students parents administrators - Inside Higher Ed
***TEACHING
Assessing the Process Not the Product of Learning - Chronicle of Higher Ed
New analysis offers more evidence against the reliability of student evaluations of teaching - Inside Higher Ed(they’re actually better at gauging students’ gender bias and grade expectations)
Setting Boundaries as an Empathetic Teacher - Chronicle of Higher Ed (How to keep some emotional distance from the personal traumas of your students)
***SEXUAL ASSAULT ON CAMPUS
A tool to Track Hundreds of Federal Sexual-Assault Investigations - Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Legal Limits of ‘Yes Means Yes’ - Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LEGAL ISSUES
2015 Year in Review for Student and Faculty Rights on Campus - The Fire
Are Legal Restrictions On Disparaging Personal Names Unconstitutional?–In re The Slants - Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Two courts reaffirm protections for opinions based on disclosed facts - Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Kent State University agrees to $145,000 settlement of federal lawsuit over assistance animals - Cleveland Plain Dealer
End of the Line for Google Books Lawsuit? - Inside Higher Ed
Google Defeats Copyright Lawsuit Over Waze Data - Technology & Marketing Law Blog
***RELIGION
Donald Trump At Evangelical Liberty University Jan 18 - International Business Times
Wheaton professor denounces efforts to fire her - Chicago Tribune
In treatment of professor, Wheaton shows split among US Evangelicals - Christian Science Monitor
The Real Reason Wheaton College is Terminating Larycia Hawkins: Loving the Common “Enemy” - Patheos
Do Black Lives Matter to evangelicals? - Washington Post (opinion)
'Insider Movements' book called 'dangerous' - Baptist Press
Franklin Graham’s promised land - The Economist
This Is What It’s Like To Be Christian And Live Under ISIS - BuzzFeed News
Classicists' Christian Problem - Chronicle of Higher Ed