Articles of Interest - March 21
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
The BuzzFeed Buzz Saw: Why Campaigns Should Fear These Four 20-Somethings NPR
How to Make Twitter Actually Useful (With new features, the social network is fixing its biggest problems to win back Twitter quitters—but it still needs to do more) Wall Street Journal
social media is making us shallow, says science Vice
Medium Evolves Again (The service will add human editorial decisions to its mobile app) The Atlantic
Twitter Rules Out Long Tweets, Sticking to 140-Character Limit New York Times
Instagram's Biggest Change Since 2013 (The app is piloting an algorithmic, non-chronological feed) The Atlantic
How 'I don't have Facebook' became the new annoying 'I don't watch TV' Mashable
Social Media Expert Checklist: Questions To Determine Who Is And Isn't An Expert Search Engine People
***PSYCHOLOGY
Should your Therapist Read your Twitter? Motherboard
Psychologists Throw Open The “File Drawer” Discover Magazine
Can Big Data Help Psychiatry Unravel the Complexity of Mental Illness? Scientific American
Why smart people are better off with fewer friends Washington Post
***PERSONAL GROWTH
What Exactly IS "critical thinking"? Becoming (my blog)
***SCIENCE
Why scientific fraud hurts people Stat News
Many scientific “truths” are, in fact, false Quartz
Embracing 'Messy' Science (The American Statistical Association pushes for more data transparency by rejecting a common measure of statistical significance) Inside Higher Ed
***GRAMMAR
A ‘Perfect’ Storm (What superlative, asks Ben Yagoda, could possibly follow "perfect" in the procession of enthusiastic adjectives?) Chronicle of Higher Ed
What grammar pedants and fashion victims have in common The Conversation
***LANGUAGE
The future of the Spanish language is looking a lot more like English LA Times
How language gives your brain a break BioEngineer
***LITERATURE
What People Around The World Are (And Aren't) Reading About Digg
Scientists Discover That James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake Has an Amazingly Mathematical “Multifractal” Structure Open Culture
***RESEARCH
Wikipedia and the Momentum of Tiny Edits The Atlantic
***GENDER ISSUES
As Women Take Over a Male-Dominated Field, the Pay Drops New York Times
***RACE
Can Computers Be Racist? The Human-Like Bias Of Algorithms NPR
'Resume whitening' doubles callbacks for minority job candidates, study finds The Guardian
Trump as a Taunt Inside Higher Ed
'The Bell Curve' still Dividing Campuses Inside Higher Ed
Professor Cleared to Teach After Furor Over Race Inside Higher Ed
***CAMPUS CRIME
Despite public interest in increased police transparency, most private universities shield police reports Student Press Law Center
***FREE SPEECH
Does the First Amendment protect people who film the police? The Conversation
Defining Intolerance: First Amendment concerns at the U of California Inside Higher Ed
***LEGAL ISSUES
The legal battle over this monkey's selfie is far from over The Daily Dot
Lions Gate TM Copyright Claims Against TD Ameritrade Dismissed Bloomberg
***TECHNOLOGY
Report: Wearables To Top 10 Million Shipments in 2016 Campus Technology
***ART AND DESIGN
Artists Put Online 3D, High Resolution Scans of 3,000-year-old Nefertiti Bust (and Controversy Ensues) Open Culture
Art and loneliness The Economist
How Critical Thinking Sabotages Painting: Creating art is a very different skill than articulating what art is about (subscription required) Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Puts Online 65,000 Works of Modern Art Open Culture
***BIG DATA
Google just released its Analytics 360 Suite. Is this 6 product package a game changer? Venture Beat
In support of Bayesian evidence measures: reconsider the "role of testing & P values in quantitative research" Inside Higher Ed
Is the "reproducibility crisis” due to overuse of P values & a preference for easily digestible conclusions? American Statistical Association
In 4 years, some $4.6 trillion will be spent by co's to save useless and dark data Veritas
More data isn't necessarily better. Here's 7 cases where #BigData won't improve your model Data Science
***RELIGION
Exit polls and the evangelical vote: A closer look Pew Research
Baptist Youth Pastor's Wife Says She's Wearing Hijab on Mondays to Show Solidarity With Muslim Christian Post
Jimmy Swaggart didn’t Go away Greater Baton Rouge Business Report
Former Scientology "Life Counselor" Sheds Light on the Church's Gay Reparative Therapy Process Gawker
How Will Young People Choose Their Religion? The Atlantic
Percentage of Americans who pray or believe in God at an all-time low City News Service
***POLITICS
Measuring Donald Trump’s Mammoth Advantage in Free Media New York Times
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Digital Video Advertising For Traditional TV Tops $2 Billion Media Post
Has the podcasting renaissance been overstated? The Media Briefing
***JOURNALISM
The Washington Post is trying to make it easier to read long features Nieman Labs
Who is posting comments on news stories, and why do they do it? Harvard's Nieman Lab
As Sunshine Week dawns, more need than ever for transparency Poynter
Study Finds Legacy Newsrooms Embrace Innovation, But Not Cultural Change Media Shift
Digital Digging: How Fusion is producing investigative journalism for the Jon Stewart generation Poynter
Beyond Spotlight: 6 more data journalism projects that influenced policy Online Journalism Blog
Here are the most practical tips for reporters shooting video with smartphones GateHouse NewsRoom
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Us antitrust lawsuit aims to block California newspaper sale Salon
Why narrative journalism startup Latterly called it quits Venture Beat
***STUDENT JOURNALISM
As FCC Auction Looms, Colleges Consider the Value of Their Airwaves Chronicle of Higher Ed
Florida student news website files lawsuit against university for access to student government hearings Student Press Law Center
***STUDENT LIFE
How the chance of breaking up changes the longer your relationship lasts Washington Post
***HIGHER ED
Why Are Some Academics So Unprofessional? (Calls go unreturned, emails are ignored. That’s the way business is conducted too often in higher education) Chronicle of Higher Ed
A growing number of European students are opting to pay for their education Economist
How 'Safe Spaces' Stifle Ideas Chronicle of Higher Ed
***HUMANITIES /STEM
15 arts and literature majors with the best value 2016 USA Today