Articles of Interest - Jan 25
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
The fastest-growing ‘news’ site of 2015 was an obscure content farm for moms - Washington Post
Nearly Half of Twitter’s Senior Leaders Are Leaving – Wired
4 ways to tell if a picture was Photoshopped just by glancing at it – Tech Insider
Nielsen Will Now Use Your Facebook Chatter for TV Ratings - Wired
***BIG DATA
Automating Legal Advice: AI and Expert Systems - Bloomberg
Google's new free, 3-month course on Deep Learning - The Verge
Here's a nice summary of what's at stake in the practical ethics of machine intelligence - Fast Forward Labs
Need a simple explanation of Hadoop for the uninitiated? - Smart Data Collection
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Ultimate Reality - Becoming (my blog)
***WRITIN’ AND READIN’
The 20 Most Influential Academic Books of All Time: No Spoilers - Open Culture
Scholars Talk Writing: Ideally you want to be an id on the first draft and a superego on the second' - Chronicle of Higher Ed
Ursula Le Guin Gives Insightful Writing Advice in Her Free Online Workshop - Open Culture
***LITERATURE
The Open Syllabus Project Gathers 1,000,000 Syllabi from Universities & Reveals the 100 Most Frequently-Taught Books- Open Culture
A doctor’s mission: Showing why literature matters to medicine – Dallas Morning News
***RESEARCH
Yahoo Releases Largest Cache of Internet Data - Wall Street Journal
***RACE AND GENDER ISSUES
Prominent Medieval Scholar’s Blog on ‘Feminist Fog’ Sparks an Uproar - Chronicle of Higher Ed
***FREE SPEECH
Digital rights non-profit argues against banning anonymous speech platforms like Yik Yak - Student Press Law Center
Watch What You Say: How fear is stifling academic freedom (subscription) - Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LEGAL ISSUES
Before I Can Fix This Tractor, We Have to Fix Copyright Law - Slate
Florida appeals court reverses order to ‘unpublish’ information – Columbia Journalism Review
****SCIENCE
Quantum Links in Time and Space May Form the Universe’s Foundation – Wired
****PSYCHOLOGY
Even Facebook can’t help you have more than 150 real friends - Washington Post
Florida Governor Wants to Know why all Pscyhology Majors aren’t Employed - Inside Higher Ed
Lumosity to Pay $2M to Settle FTC Charges Over 'Brain Training' – NBC News
****PHILOSOPHY
When Philosophy Lost Its Way – New York Times
***TECHNOLOGY
The Way You Buy and Use Apps Is About to Change Big Time - Wired
***HISTORY
The history of the world, as you’ve never seen it before - Washington Post
***MEDIA
Nielsen To Use Facebook And Twitter In New Social TV Ratings - NP
***JOURNALISM
MU professor Melissa Click, who called for ‘muscle’ to remove reporter, charged with assault - KansasCity.com
How well do you speak Journalism Jargon? - Contently
A new data journalism tool – and a new way of reporting uncertainty - Online Journalism Blog
What journalists get wrong about social science, according to 20 scientists - Vox
How Data Journalism is Impacting the Industry – CTOvision
Are intelligent agents the beginning of the end for journalism as we know it? - Phys Org
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
A News Team Was Fired For Reportedly Playing Cards Against Humanity At Work - Buzz Feed
TVNZ presenter accepts apology from pregnancy critic - The New Zealand Herald
Pew: $6.3M raised for journalism projects on Kickstarter in 6-year period – USA Today
The New York Times celebrates 20 years on the worldwide web, as newspaper business prepares for more challenges ahead – Talking New Media
***STUDENT JOURNALISM
College newspaper playing major role in FBI investigation into Kent State professor’s ISIS ties - Fox8
****STUDENT LIFE
Mizzou is Encouraging Students to Report Anyone Who Makes Fun of a Classmate - National Review
21 Pictures People Not In College Will Never Understand - BuzzFeed
Campus Backlash over College President’s Plan to get ride of at-Risk Freshmen: Drown the Bunnies - Chronicle of Higher Ed
Generation Uphill (The millennials are the brainiest, best-educated generation ever. Yet their elders often stop them from reaching their full potential) - The Economist
****JOBS
6 LinkedIn tips to help maximize your job search - USA Today
****ACADEMIC LIFE
Professor Says She Was Fired Unconstitutionally For Cursing - Huffington Post
Fired LSU Professor’s Lawsuit Challenges Federal Title IX Guidance - Chronicle of Higher Ed
***HIGHER ED
Ed Dept to publish a list of religious colleges that have received Title IX exemptions - Chronicle of Higher Ed
Undergraduate success linked to meaningful interaction with professors, studying a variety of fields and having classroom talks that go to issues of ethics and life - Inside Higher Ed
***TEACHING
Confessions of a MOOC professor: three things I learned and two things I worry about - The Conversation
TurnItIn Expands Beyond Plagiarism - Inside Higher Ed
***SEXUAL ASSAULT ON CAMPUS
How A Stanford Student Accused Of Assaulting Multiple Women Graduated - Huffington Post
Survey: 21% of Undergraduate Women Have Been Sexually Assaulted in College - Bureau of Justice Statistics
How Much Should a University Have to Reveal About a Sexual-Assault Case? (how universities misuse FERPA) - New York Times
***RELIGION
Americans may be getting less religious, but feelings of spirituality are on the rise - Pew Research
In Defense of Theology - Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why Trump Is Winning Over Christian Conservatives - TIME