articles of interest - Oct 24
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook Says It Still Isn't a Media Company Despite Deciding What's Newsworthy Fortune
Hyperpartisan Facebook Pages Are Publishing False And Misleading Information At An Alarming Rate BuzzFeed
Social-media endorsements are the latest thing in advertising Economist
The Social Mediators: 7 Young Social Stars Share Their Rules For Engagement Fast Company
First Snapchat-Native Documentary Films to Launch From PBS Series POV Variety
***INTERNET
Would You Click on These Fake Gmail Alerts? Motherboard
***TECHNOLOGY
The Feds Already Have Your Face in a Database Gizmodo
The Internet of Things: When Toasters Go Online Blooomberg
Are E-sports Eating Up Traditional Sports Viewership? Watching other people play video games is just as compelling to millennial men as baseball and hockey MIT Technology Review
***ART & DESIGN
Reading Gaol, Where Oscar Wilde Was Imprisoned, Unlocks Its Gates For Art NPR
Tiny Hand Will Be Your New Comic Sans: BuzzFeed News made a font BuzzFeed
108 million web users are color blind. Tips for designing keeping them in mind Ux Planet
Disenfranchised by Bad Design Propublica
***BIG DATA / STATS
Three big data trends that 2016 brought out: Spark, Multi-core Servers, & IoT Dzone
Spark for Scale: the fundamental concepts Social Cops
MachineLearning is like a deep-fat fryer IdleWords
***FREE SPEECH
Writers Group Seeks Middle Ground on Campus Speech Inside Higher Ed
***LEGAL ISSUES
The Billion Dollar Copyright Lawsuit that could Legalize a new kind of Scam Fast Company
Rolling Stone Defamation Trial: UVA Student Who Made Up Rape Story Got Tattoo To Mark It Huff Post
***GENDER ISSUES
Education Department opens civil rights investigation at Baylor University Politico
Connie Chung ‘went through hell’ as a woman in journalism Page Six
'Mansplaining' On 'Jeopardy!' Huff Post
***DIVERSITY
Study: Immigrants Face Backlash But Do The Same To The Next Group NPR
***RACE
Graduation Gap for Black Football Players Inside Higher Ed
ProPublica Reveals Discriminatory Pricing By Computer Algorithms NPR
The Importance of Talking Explicitly About Race Chronicle of Higher Ed
Growing Racial Disparities in Student Debt Inside Higher Ed
Every Asian American has been asked this question. A computer gives the best answer Washington Post
***SEXUAL ASSAULT
Colleges are debating when to notify students about sexual assaults Business Insider
UNM fires professor tied to sexual misconduct allegations Albuquerque Journal
Education Dept. Opens Title IX Investigation at Baylor Chronicle of Higher Ed
***FILM
How Movie Studios Rejected Scripts During the Silent-Film Era: A Cold, 17-Point Checklist Circa 1915 Open Culture
***RELIGION
Evangelicals are a lot more chill about religion and politics than they used to be Washington Post
Dobson is calling for civil disobedience against a California law Associated Press
RIP Jack Chick, father of the Satanic Panic BongBong
***MUSIC
Bob Dylan Set to Share His Gospel Roots CBN
Hear Igor Stravinsky’s Symphonies & Ballets in a Complete, 32-Hour, Chronological Playlist Open Culture
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Print advertising woes are getting worse Poynter
NBCUniversal is doubling its bet on BuzzFeed by investing another $200 million Recode
AT&T Is Buying Time Warner Because the Future is Google Wired
The Next Generation Of Local, Low-Power FM Stations Expands In Urban Areas NPR
German Chatbot Startup Tries to Help Publishers Reach Larger Audience MediaShift
Newsonomics: Here are 10 storylines we’ll be talking about into 2017 Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***BUSINESS
The full-time MBA is under pressure from specialist degrees and online education Economist
Two economists win the Nobel prize for their work on the theory of contracts Economist
***JOURNALISM
Black Christian producer sues CNN because his colleagues kept saying 'Jesus Christ Daily Mail
Kidnapped Journalist Forced To Explain To ISIS Captors What BuzzFeed News Is The Onion
Writing about think tanks and using their research: A cautionary tip sheet Journalist’s Resources
The power of comics journalism Economist
Hacking: What journalists need to know. A conversation with Bruce Schneier Journalist’s Resources
For journalists battling censorship, focus on people, not politics International Journalists' Network
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
It’s 2016, and we’re still arguing whether newspapers should have websites Poynter
Can A.G. Sulzberger Save The New York Times? Vanity Fair
Gannett announces across chain staff layoffs, while ‘tronc’ acquisition rumors continue Talking New Media
***STUDENT MEDIA
Student newspapers trashed over rape story WFTS-TV
Missouri Journalism School Was A Bit Too Bullish Before Middle Tennessee Game
Liberty Blocks its Student Paper Publishing Column Critical of Trump Inside Higher Ed
***STUDENT LIFE
UC Irvine Is Offering E-Sports Scholarships Fox Sports Radio
Student at Washington University in St. Louis reveals 5 apps that people are talking about on campus Business Insider
***SCIENCE
Keep politics out of science? Fugghedaboutit STAT
***HEALTH
The Cure for Cancer Is Data—Mountains of Data Wired
Millennials took Adderall to get through school. Now they’ve taken their addiction to the workplace Quartz
Electrodes in the brain can mimic sensations from the hand Economist
***PSYCHOLOGY
How The Concept Of Implicit Bias Came Into Being NPR
Colleges Turn Online Text Messaging Services to Help with Counseling Demand Inside Higher Ed
Psychiatric patients wait the longest in emergency rooms Washington Post
A new generation of drugs could change the way depression is treated Economist
Social attitudes to faces: Your class determines how you look at your fellow creatures Economist
Hazards of pointing out bad meta-analyses of psychological interventions PLOS
How do politicians get so comfortable with lying? One theory: practice Vox
***NEUROSCIENCE
Space Brain': Mars Explorers May Risk Neural Damage, Study Finds NBC
There’s Such a Think as Too Much Neuroscience New York Times
Brain study shows how small lies grow into whoppers Stat News
Frequent liars show less activity in key brain structure Science News
***GRAMMAR
***WRITING& READING
Student Writing in the Digital Age Jstor
'Blackacre': A Collection Of Poems About 'Searching And Being Buffeted' NPR
Bye-Bye, Cursive Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize, Redefining Boundaries of Literature New York Times
#TrumpBookReport trends after debate as people imagine Donald Trump's response to literature Telegraph
11 of literature’s best closing lines PR Daily
The 8 Most Misunderstood Witches In Literature Bustle
Oxford University Press: New edition of Shakespeare's works will co-credit Christopher Marlowe Business Insider
***PHILOSOPHY
John Cleese & Jonathan Miller Turn Profs Talking About Wittgenstein Into a Classic Comedy Routine (1977) Open Culture
***PERSONAL GROWTH
How our brain tricks us when visualizing the future Becoming (my blog)
***HIGHER ED
What You Need to Know About the Overtime Rule and Higher Ed Chronicle of Higher Ed
To an enthusiastic crowd at Regent University, Donald Trump makes his case in final days of campaign Virginian Pilot
***TEACHING
LinkedIn Free Courses Week LinkedIn
A Defense of the Multiple-Choice Exam: Its value may be limited, but there is no better way to test whether students have read the material Chronicle of Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
There Is No Excuse for How Universities Treat Adjuncts The Atlantic
What was it like to get a PhD in the 1840s? Physics Today
This photo essay shows what it really means to be adjunct faculty Washington Post
***RESEARCH
How many IRB members does it take to screw in a light bulb?" Anonymous
Why Data Citation Is a Computational Problem ACM
Ask The Chefs: What’s Your Favorite ‘Dirty Little Secret’ About Scholarly Publishing? Scholarly Kitchen