articles of interest - Jan 30
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Twitter Tries, One More Time, to Help You Figure Out Twitter Wired
Facebook News Feed Algorithm: Percent of a Video Watched By Users GivenWeight Ad Week
***PRODUCING MEDIA
One Dataset, Visualized 25 Ways Flowing Data
Lessons from Knight Investments in digital audio and Podcasting Medium
***INTERNET
Zerg Rush: The Story Behind Google's Best Easter Egg The Daily Dot
Google and the Misinformed Public Chronicle of Higher Ed
Google Maps now shows you how hard it is to find parking Daily Dot
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
The declining authority of #statistics & the experts who analyze them is at the heart of the “post-truth” crisis The Guardian
The best data scientists get out from behind their computers and talk to people and gather “soft data” Harvard Business Review
Some Apache Hadoop myths: The devil is in the very expensive details CIO
The goals of AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning: "creating an intelligent machine" Codes of Interest
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
List of the top Media Co's by Social Media Performance Shareablee
***JOURNALISM
Four more journalists get felony charges after covering inauguration unrest The Guardian
How Mary Tyler Moore Inspired a Generation of Female Journalists Vanity Fair
Journalists around the country are joining a Slack channel devoted to FOIA and Trump Poynter
Mary Tyler Moore and women in journalism CBS News
Police Are Making It Impossible To Use Drones To Document Protests Vocativ
***FAKE NEWS
Psychologists say they can inoculate people against fake news CBC
Google has banned 200 publishers since it passed a new policy against fake news Recode
Media orgs like San Diego-based Snopes lead the charge against fake news City Beat
When is a false claim a lie? Here’s what fact-checkers think Poynter
Fake News Is About to Get Even Scarier than You Ever Dreamed Vanity Fair
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Gannett slashes more than 140 jobs at NJ newspaper group New York Post
Women’s March on Washington Raises Ethical Questions for Media Outlets WWD
***WRITING & READING
Sorry, But Speed Reading Won’t Help You Read More Wired
The Mystery and Occasional Poetry of, Uh, Filled Pauses Atlas Obscura
Academics don't have to be great writers, but they do have to realize that it's their job to create interest in their topics Chronicle of Higher Ed
Five ways to skip content when checking a Word document for spelling errors Tech Republic
***LANGUAGE
Watch a New Yorker Copy Editor Take a Hacksaw to a Recent Donald Trump Speech Mediate
It is America’s greatest word—arguably, the world’s greatest—and it deserves regular recognition Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
George Orwell Explains How “Newspeak” Works, the Official Language of His Totalitarian Dystopia in 1984 Open Culture
WSU professor uses big data to research Shakespearean texts Wichita
A Free Course on Dante’s Divine Comedy from Yale University Open Culture
Publisher printing more copies of George Orwell's '1984' after spike in demand CNN
Ian McKellen Reads a Passionate Speech by William Shakespeare, Written in Defense of Immigrants Open Culture
How Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ can inspire those who fear Trump’s America The Conversation
***GENDER ISSUES
Trans* in College Inside Higher Ed
6-Year-Old Girls' Gendered Beliefs About Intelligence The Atlantic
***FREE SPEECH
When Horse Diapers and Freedom of Religion Collide WSJ
***LEGAL ISSUES
Judge Sides With University In Legal Fight With Student Newspaper NPR
Don’t Expect the First Amendment to Protect the Media New York Times
The Most Important Law in Tech Has a Problem: How “safe harbor” turned into a protector of privilege BackChannel
Actress in Viral Video Can’t Prevent Video From Being Made Into an Advertisement–Roberts v. Bliss Technology and Marketing Law Blog
***RELIGION
ISIS magazine calls for attack on First Baptist Dallas KXAS-TV (NBC5)
A large Colorado congregation just became LGBT-inclusive. Here’s why it matters Religious News Service
Tennessee Megachurch Withholds Funds From SBC Over Support of Mosque Construction The Christian Post
Amy Grant's daughter donates kidney to best friend The Tennessean
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg meets with Waco pastors Waco Trib
The fascinating science behind Ouija boards Daily Dot
The Tyranny of Politeness (opinion) Religious Dispatches
Why Christians Fall Prey to Fake News Christianity Today
***ART & DESIGN
An Artist Put Wax Butts Around Miami to Expose Everyday Sexual Harassment The Creators Project
Art Exhibition Celebrates Drawings By The Founder Of Modern Neuroscience NPR
The Rise and Fall of Comic Sans (video) Scholarly Kitchen
Richard Prince has disowned his Ivanka Trump work The Guardian
Jimmie Durham and the Art of Interruption jstor
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Former Baylor financial aid officer Files Title IX lawsuit ESPN
Education Dept. Releases Latest List of Title IX Investigations, After Failing to Do So Chronicle of Higher Ed
Russia parliament votes 380-3 to decriminalize domestic violence USA Today
New Baylor lawsuit alleges 52 rapes by football players in 4 years while current Liberty University AD was in charge at Baylor Dallas Morning News
Newspaper gets records hearing in sexual assault investigation of Utah State University Student Press Law Center
***RESEARCH
How likely are academics to confess to errors in research? Times Higher Ed
***SCIENCE
John Arnold Made a Fortune at Enron. Now He’s Declared War on Bad Science Wired
Professor Who Helped Expose Crisis in Flint Says Public Science Is Broken Chronicle of Higher Ed
USDA Scientists Have Been Put On Lockdown Under Trump BuzzFeed News
***HEALTH
How to Spot Fake Health News BBC
3D-Printer Creates Skin Made From Human Cells Vocativ
Wider Racial Gap Found in Cervical Cancer Deaths New York Times
No original reporting: Fox News story rehashes news release for story on autism and fecal transplants Health News Review
***PSYCHOLOGY
Why Time Seems to Speed Up as We Get Older: What the Research Says Open Culture
China wakes up to its mental-health problems Economist
7 lessons from psychology that explain the irrational fear of outsiders Vox
***NEUROSCIENCE
Tests suggest the methods of neuroscience are left wanting The Economist
***PHILOSOPHY
Motivated Reasoning: A Philosopher On Confirmation Bias NPR
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The Mask of Guilt Becoming (my site)
How Being Bored Out of Your Mind Makes You More Creative Wired
***HIGHER ED & IMMIGRATION
Colleges Scramble After Trump’s Executive Order Bans Citizens of 7 Muslim Countries Chronicle of Higher Ed
Campus administrators detail their plans for undocumented students New York Times
Top academics lash out at Trump’s ‘un-American’ immigration ban Stat New
Princeton University Dean Warns Against Travel Abroad for Students, Scholars after President Trump's Immigration Order WCAU Philadelphia (NBC10)
How universities have vowed to help protect undocumented students USA Today
What You Need to Know About Colleges and the Immigration Ban Chronicle of Higher Ed
***HIGHER ED
Hackers are locking colleges’ data away and demanding payment to return it. But paying the ransom raises new issues, experts say Inside Higher Ed
Concealed Carry Weapon Laws and College Campuses National Conference of State Legislatures
Colleges and inequality: New data show that joining the 1% remains unsettlingly hereditary Economist
Hundreds of students, alumni from DeVos’s Christian college oppose her nomination as education secretary Washington Post
***TEACHING
Study: Easy grading is actually a symptom of poor assessment practices rather than a cause Inside Higher Ed
Are great teachers poor scholars? Brookings
***STUDENT LIFE
Study: Vanishing child care centers on college campuses impacts student access Education Dive