Articles of Interest - June 27
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Twitter is making a huge video push — and tweaking Vine’s six-second limit in the process Recode
Twitter quietly launches tags to location feeds with Foursquare Tech Crunch
Social media apps overwhelmingly dominate mobile traffic Business Insider
How Periscope Is Changing Politics TIME
Google, Facebook quietly move toward automatic blocking of extremist videos Reuters
Who owns the news consumer: Social media platforms or publishers? Columbia Journalism Review
**LEGAL ISSUES
Who owns the news consumer: Social media platforms or publishers? Columbia Journalism Review
Judge: UCSD “stacked the deck” against student accused of cheating Inside Higher Ed
Photographer sues after his photo, used in news stories, is attributed to social media site Student Press Law Center
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Jobs on Creativity: Creativity is just connecting things Becoming (my site)
When you will most likely hit your creative peak, according to science Washington Post
***GRAMMAR
How Mary Norris, the New Yorker's 'Comma Queen,' became a video star Digiday
***WRITING& READING
True: Fact-checking a single Donald Trump speech required 12 AP writers Washington Post
Does Reading on Computer Screens Affect Student Learning? Chronicle of Higher Ed
AP style guidelines for hyphen usage GateHouse Newsroom
***LITERATURE
An Animated Introduction to the Life & Literary Works of Charles Dickens Open Culture
Faith and Sci-Fi: The Christian Universe of "A Wrinkle in Time" Catholic World Report
***RESEARCH
Detecting scientific sloppiness: A surprisingly simple test to check research papers for errors Economist
Science hype and questionable research practices satirized In Trump vs Trump paper Retraction Watch
Why Most Clinical Research Is Not Useful PLOS Journal
Presenting scientific results: A scientific study of the importance of diagrams to science Economist
Harvard Theological Review refuses to retract article despite evidence that the article — about Jesus’s wife — was based on a forgery Retraction Watch
***GENDER ISSUES
Stopping Tenure Clock helps Male professors More Inside Higher Ed
***RACE
It’s official: Minority babies are the majority among the nation’s infants, but only just Pew Research
A sharp spike in racist incidents reported after the Brexit vote Washington Post
3 Key Takeaways From the Supreme Court’s Decision on Race-Conscious Admissions Chronicle of Higher Ed
The real winners of the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling are rich, white people Washington Post
Post EU Referendum Racism Documented Online And It’s Really Scary Huffington Post
***SEXUAL ASSAULT
How you can help victims of sex trafficking while traveling Daily Dot
What One Rape Cost Our Family (opinion) New York Times
***TECHNOLOGY
Text messages are often the weakest link in two-step logins Wired
***THE INTERNET
Reweaving the web- A slew of startups is trying to decentralise the online world Economist
Googling medical symptoms may no longer convince you that you’re dying Arstechnica
***BIG DATA
Trade in data seems very important, but there are no good, er, data on it Economist
Polls v prediction markets-did a Bayesian approach mislead Brexit expectations? Economist
Data science company says data mining software used by spy agencies just got more powerful Fed Scope
***JOURNALISM
Health journalism has a serious evidence problem. Here’s a plan to save it. Vox
FOIA Request on Immigration would cost more than $173K FiveThirtyEight
The New Yorker, BuzzFeed, and the push for digital credibility Columbia Journalism Review
***SCIENCE
The Limits of Science: What We Cannot Know (book review) Economist
How an academic urban legend can spread because of the difficulty of clear citation Andrew Gelman
***PSYCHOLOGY
How Psychology Made the Brexit Vote Inevitable TIME
Minister Tests Ban on Gay-Conversion Therapy Courthouse News
***ETHICS
Should Your Driverless Car Hit a Pedestrian to Save Your Life? New York Times
Do scientific fraudsters deserve a second chance? Stat
***RELIGION
Is Donald Trump now a born-again Christian? Religious News Service
5 key findings about global restrictions on religion Pew Research
How Did Trump’s Speech to Evangelicals Go on Tuesday? Not Great Slate
Survey: White evangelicals say US no longer a Christian nation Religious New Service
Francis Says Church Should Apologize to Gays Reuters
***FILM & THEATER
Predicting the success of “Hamilton” Economist
***STUDENT LIFE
Spending a few extra years in college may cost you more than you think Washington Post
What Every New College Grad Should Know About Retirement Savings Fortune
The government offers $130 billion to college students. Why aren’t more applying for it? Washington Post
Science suggests genes can hugely influence academic performance Quartz
***HIGHER ED
In College Turmoil, Signs of a Changed Relationship New York Times
Three graduation rates for one college? The baffling government policy that could confuse students Washington Post
What might Microsoft’s $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn mean for higher ed? Inside Higher Ed
Tuition at public colleges has soared in the past decade, but student fees have risen faster Washington Post
***CHRISTIAN COLLEGES & LGBTQ ISSUES
Faith-based colleges say anti-discrimination bill would infringe on their religious freedom LA Times
“Tolerant” California Will Not Tolerate Christian Colleges (written by the author of the "Hipster Christianity") (opinion) Brett McCracken
A Response to Biola University’s SB 1146 Opposition (written by 2009 Biola alumni) Campus Pride
***TEACHING
College courses without textbooks? These schools are giving it a shot Washington Post
Why some college professors are telling students to use Wikipedia for class LA Times
Study casts doubt on value of remedial math for college Washington Post