articles of interest - wk of April 24
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
How Social Media Is Changing the Conversation Surrounding Addiction (opinion) Ad Week
The Platform Effect: In France, Snapchat takes the lead in producing political content Digiday
How WeChat Spreads Rumors, Reaffirms Bias, and Helped Elect Trump BakcChannel
Facebook’s plans to augment reality are as dystopian as they are smart The Verge
Not everyone in advanced countries uses social media Pew Research Center
LinkedIn Officially Unveils Matched Audiences Platform Media Post
How to See If Your Instagram Posts Have Been Shadowbanned Life Hacker
***PRODUCING MEDIA
This Handy Tool Makes It Easy To Visualize Whatever System You Can Imagine Digg
Here’s How Much Money You Can Make With Memes High Snobiety
An Interview With @youvegotnomale Who Literally Makes Memes for a Living Vice
***INTERNET
Sneaky Exploit Allows Phishing Attacks From Sites That Look Secure Wired
China’s internet giants go global Economist
***JOURNALISM
The narrative journalists challenge: Seeing stories from a human perspective' Journalism.co
Great local reporting stands between you and wrongdoing. And it needs saving Washington Post
How Deeply Do Americans Distrust Mainstream Media Really? Vanity Fair
***FAKE NEWS
How A False Story About A Husband And Wife Being Twins Ended Up On Major News Websites BuzzFeed
France has a fake news problem, but it’s not as bad as the US The Verge
***PERSONAL GROWTH
This is perhaps the biggest differences between highly successful students and mediocre ones Becoming (my site)
4 Things that set Successful CEOs apart Harvard Business Review
How Elon Musk Learns Faster And Better Than Everyone Else Medium
For most of history, people didn’t assume they deserved to be happy. What changed? (opinion) Quartz
***GRAMMAR
For the Love of God, Stop Putting Two Spaces After a Period Mel
Adverbs and United Airlines Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LANGUAGE
Seven Linguist-Backed Tips for Making Powerful Protest Signs Life Hacker
A Linguistics Lover's Tour of the World Atlas Obscura
Trump’s Elements of Style McSweeney’s
***LITERATURE
Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria The Atlantic
***GENDER
Impact of Social Sciences – Female scientists are considerably more likely to be mistakenly cited as if they were males and vice versa The London School of Economics and Political Science
'The Handmaid's Tale' Is Among A Resurgence Of Dystopian Literature NPR
Crime and gender: A partial explanation for why men commit more crime Journalists Resources
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
WKU student leaders urge free tuition for black students as slavery reparations Lexington Herald Leader
Asian Americans used to be portrayed as the villains. How did they become a ‘model minority’? The Washington Post
Census may change questions on race, Hispanic origin for 2020 Pew Research Center
***FREE SPEECH
It's difficult for public institutions to meet legal tests and keep speakers from campus Inside Higher Ed
Berkeley Campus On Lockdown After Loose Pages From ‘Wall Street Journal’ Found On Park Bench The Onion
***LEGAL ISSUES
Supreme Court Asked to Save Abbott and Costello "Who's on First?" Copyright Hollywood Reporter
This Is Spinal Tap’s $400 Million Lawsuit Bloomberg
A Worrisome Harbinger of Changes in Copyright Law Chronicle of Higher Ed
Conservatives Groups Sue Berkeley Over Ann Coulter Cancellation New York Times
The on again, off again relationship between FOIA and White House visitor logs Muck Rock
***TECHNOLOGY
Smartphones are common in advanced economies, but digital divides remain Pew Research Center
Cloning voices:Imitating people’s speech patterns precisely could bring trouble Economist
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
Big Data analysis shows aspects of Western media coverage infected with Russian propaganda Technology Review
***RELIGION
Christian Teen Magazine 'Brio' Returns With A 'Biblical Worldview' NPR
Russia Labels Jehovah's Witnesses An Extremist Group NPR
Sub-Saharan Africa will be home to growing shares of the world’s Christians, Muslims Pew Research
Former Baptist state exec sues North American Mission Board for libel, interference in business relationships Baptist News
A WikiLeaks prosecution would endanger the future of US journalism The Guardian
Dispute heats up over who should keep "Lunar Bibles" from Apollo 14 mission Associated Press
Catholic college in Kansas wipes ‘yoga’ from names of classes the Kansas City Star
***MUSIC
***FILM
Filmmaker Shows Us How Fake Nature Documentaries Really Are Digg
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Yahoo’s Demise Is a Death Knell for Digital News Orgs The Atlantic
The Guardian pulls out of Facebook’s Instant Articles and Apple News Digiday
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus (book review) New York Times
***SCIENCE
An Interactive Visualization of Hegel’s Science of Logic (Available on Github) Open Culture
***HEALTH
Why are we dragging our feet when more automation in health care will save lives? (opinion) The Conversation
***PSYCHOLOGY
Why Conspiracy Theories Are So Appealing Life Hacker
Why Some People Are Born Anxious Life Hacker
***PHILOSOPHY
The philosopher's guide to understanding the 'self' The Week
Philosopher Andrew Taggart is helping Silicon Valley executives define success Quartz
***PRODUCTIVITY
Why Multitasking Is Bad for You TIME
Can Placebos Work If You Know They're Placebos? NPR
***ETHICS
The new Oprah movie about Henrietta Lacks reopens a big scientific debate Vox
***RESEARCH
Retractions of neurosurgical papers are on the rise, says a new paper that finds that duplicated publications and plagiarism were the top reasons for retraction World Neurosurgery
The 20% Statistician: Five reasons blog posts are of higher scientific quality than journal articles Daniel Lakens
Conflict Over Sociologist's Narrative Puts Spotlight on Ethnography Chronicle of Higher Ed
***HUMANITIES /STEM
Why My Humanities Degree Is Anything But Useless (opinion) Unwritten
Hey, Computer Scientists! Stop Hating on the Humanities (you need ethics training) Wired
***TEACHING
Creative Ways to Help Students Recover From Failure (opinion; sub. req'ed) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Getting Our Students Wrong Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT LIFE
Millennials don’t switch jobs any more than Gen Xers did Pew Research Center
As colleges embrace e-sports, there are thorny questions about who, if anyone, profits LA Times
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Aftermath of a Professor's Suicide: A death this week leads to renewed discussions about academics and mental health Inside Higher Ed
Are Full-Timers and Administrations Maintaining a Caste System that Excludes Adjuncts Academe Blog
Nontenured Faculty Should not be assessed by Student Evaluations in this Politically Charged Atmosphere (opinion) Inside Higher Ed