articles of interest - Oct 31
/***TECHNOLOGY
Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2017 Information Management
Top 200 Tools for Learning 2016: Overview Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies
Companies Try Out Selfies as Password Alternatives: Facial-recognition apps use smartphone snapshots to verify identity of customers, taxpayers Wall Street Journal
Concerts put phones on lockdown for a phone-free event (the service has also been used in classrooms) New York Times
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Those Facebook lives from space are fake AF Mashable
Vine is Closed Medium
Do Parents Invade Children's Privacy When They Post Photos Online? NPR
If You’re Mourning The Loss Of Vine, Check Out The New App From Its Co-Founder Tube Filter
Facebook’s fake news problem won’t fix itself Poynter
***BIG DATA
The AI disruption wave Tech Crunch
Which data science functions will be automated in the near future? Forbes
Prediction: By 2020 60% of AI apps will run on the platform of one of 4 companies: Amazon, Google, Microsoft & IBM New York Times
How Apache Ignite pulls RDBMS, NoSQL, and Hadoop data sets into memory for improved performance InfoWorld
What do everyday people-not techies or co's-think about AI’s potential/pitfalls. Will AI will help/hurt the world? Harvard Business Review
Let’s break down 7 data/analytics job titles for today's data pros Information Week
Two-thirds of public doesn’t understand data, yet increasingly influenced by data, study says Talking New Media
What you can learn from GitHub's top 10 open source projects Tech Republic
***ART & DESIGN
Making Art Off The Grid: A Monthlong Residency At A Remote National Park NPR
***FILM
Film and the prez election NPR
***PRODUCING MEDIA
How These Netflix And NPR Vets Plan To Reinvent PodcastsFast Company
***GRAMMAR
Spelling errors to wet your appetite and furl your brow Washington Post
***WRITING& READING
Having an Aspirational Home Library Is Totally Normal Slate
Kurt Vonnegut’s Term Paper Assignment from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop Teaches You to Read Fiction Like a Writer Open Culture
An education expert says reading to kids makes them more curious than giving them phones or tablets Business Insider
***LITERATURE
Hear Marshall McLuhan’s The Medium is the Massage (1967) Open Culture
***RELIGION
The history of Satanic Panic in the U.S. — and why it's not over yet Vox
Few Americans identify with more than one religion Pew Research
Chicago public school cancels ‘Christian’ haunted house depicting Orlando LGBT mass shooting Raw Story
A Suicide Cult’s Surviving Members Still Maintain Its 90s Website Vice
Shared religious beliefs in marriage important to some, but not all, married Americans Pew Research
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
The Long, Weird Transition from Analog to Digital Television Atlas Obscura
Is media bias really rampant? Ask the man who studies it for a living Poynter
Vice’s New Gaming Channel, Waypoint, Kicks off With Three-Day Twitch Stream Tube Filter
***JOURNALISM
A daily’s loss in court may cause journalists to rethink how they communicate Columbia Journalism Review
These Women Reporters Went Undercover to Get the Most Important Scoops of Their Day Smithsonian
For journalists investigating corruption, free tool offers millions of searchable documents International Journalists' Network
How the Global Fact-Checking Movement is Changing How We Train Journalists PBS MediaShift
The 70 Greatest Conspiracy Theories in Pop-Culture History Vulture
Journalist arrested for filming in courthouse has charges dismissed Student Press Law Center
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Gannett's billion-dollar deal to buy Tronc put on hold Political
***STUDENT MEDIA
UT student paper's anti-Muslim letter stirs controversy Knox News
***HEALTH
Patient Zero in AIDS crisis was misidentified, study says, rewriting early history of virus Stat News
Why Insulin Prices Have Kept Rising for 95 years Washington Post
***NEUROSCIENCE
The Inept Story Behind 100 Missing Brains from the Psych Dept at the University of Texas Atlas Obscura
The Brain Wiring Behind a Frustrating Speech Disorder Wall Street Journal
Why you shouldn’t blame lying on the brain The Conversation
Fear and Your Brain Jstor
***SOCIOLOGY
What a liberal sociologist learned from spending five years in Trump's America Vox
***GENDER ISSUES
'Good Girls Revolt' Takes On Gender Bias In The Newsroom NPR
Odd Vintage Postcards Document the Propaganda Against Women’s Rights 100 Years Ago Open Culture
Mind the (Pay) Gap Scholarly Kitchen
***RACE
A Professor Circled “Hence” On A Latina Student’s Paper And Wrote “This Is Not Your Word" BuzzFeed
***PHILOSOPHY
Stephen Fry Narrates 4 Philosophy Animations On the Question: How to Create a JustSociety? Open Culture
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The strongest political bias Becoming (my blog)
***HIGHER ED
Why the Future of Content Creation in Higher Education Is Digital Tech.Co
The Man Who Shed Light On Why College Keeps Getting More Expensive NPR
Colleges Crackdown Targets Drinking and Sexual Assault New York Times
Liberty University Students Want to Be Christians—Not Republicans The Atlantic
***TEACHING
Community College FAQ: You Teach How Many Classes? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Tips for Effective Online Learning – Community Edition Chronicle of Higher Ed
Private Facebook pages created by students for your course are the new cyber watercooler Chronicle of Higher Ed
***FREE SPEECH
Student forced out for Facebook Comments Inside Higher Ed
One University Asks: How Do You Promote Free Speech Without Alienating Students? (sub. req’d) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LEGAL ISSUES
In a Copyright Case, Justices Ponder the Meaning of Fashion New York Times
Federal judge smacks down Northern Kentucky's reliance on FERPA privacy to keep secrets in student's sexual-assault lawsuit Student Press Law Center
***CRIME ON CAMPUS
Campus Cop on trial for Murder NPR
BYU police accessed thousands of external agencies' police records, actions questioned Herald Extra
***STUDENT LIFE
Should Students Major in What They Love? Inside Higher Ed
Clerk wanted to block early voting for students Wisconsin Rapids Tribune
‘Not Your Language’: How a Classroom Interaction Led a Student to Speak Out on Microaggressions Chronicle of Higher Ed
Having a Hard Time in College? Take Some Advice From 2 Million Students TIME
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Brigham Young Students Who Report Sexual Assault Won’t Face Honor Code Sanctions New York Times
USF reviewing sex harassment finding at administrator's previous job Tampa Bay Times
Study: Gay and bisexual men are reporting sexual assaults on the campus at the same frequencies as heterosexual women Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. publishers
More details of Baylor's 'horrifying and painful' sexual-assault scandal have emerged Business Insider
Brigham Young Will Grant Disciplinary Amnesty to Sexual-Assault Victims Chronicle of Higher Ed
***TITLE IX
Resident Assistants Find Themselves on the Front Lines of Title IX Compliance Chronicle of Higher Ed
CUNY’s Hunter College Violated Title IX, Education Dept. Says Chronicle of Higher Ed