Articles of Interest - July 18
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
How the gurus behind Google Earth created the geomapping mobile game 'Pokémon Go' Mashable
In Wake Of Shootings, Facebook Struggles To Define Hate Speech NPR
Snapchat Is Ruined Gizmodo
Pinterest Takes a Shot at Camera-Search Technology Wall Street Journal
Facebook plans live video push during conventions Politico
BitTorrent Launches Streaming News Network at Republican Convention AdAge
This Photo App Puts Instagram Filters To Shame PSFK
How to spot a fake Facebook page during a breaking news situation Washington Post
***PRODUCING MEDIA
An Australian Company Spent Two Years Faking Some Of The Internet's Most Viral Videos Digg
How to Measure SEO Success for Recent Content PBS Media Shift
***BIG DATA / STATS
The potency of graph representations is in the simplicity..one can issue complicated queries without knowing code Inside Big Data
After many false starts, what do the clues say will be the AI impact? Danger or opportunity? Economist
Shakespeare and using fuzzy logic systems to deal with imprecise or incomplete data Data Science Central
10 Algorithm Categories for #DataScience heavy lifting: 1- Crunchers 2- Guides.. KD Nuggets
***TECHNOLOGY
A new technique for removing radical propaganda Economist
The Internet of Things: Riding the Wave in Higher Education Educause
Glimpses of an AI-enabled future Economist
Watch As Elite Password Hacking Software Cracks Thousands Of Passwords In Seconds (video) Dr Mike Pound
One-quarter of all US TV households now going without cable and satellite reception Talking New Media
A Smart Typewriter Is a Thing and I’m in Love With It Wired
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Why Pageviews Matter in Measuring Native Ads Media Shift
Buffer for Instagram is Here: 8 Ways to Get Your Best Instagram Marketing Results with Buffer
***JOURNALISM
Live-Tweeting the News: The Risks and Rewards PBS Media shift
Gannet’s Memphis newspaper outsources copyediting Memphis Flyer
3 Ways to Put News Metrics to Work PBS Media shift
Photographers Are Gearing Up for the Republican Convention Like It’s War Wired
How News Organizations Are Using Facebook Live PBS Media Shift
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
How The Washington Post grew digital subscriptions 145 percent Digitday
Live Streaming Breaks Through, and Cable News Has Much to Fear New York Times
The non-religious are now the country’s largest religious voting bloc Washington Post
Evangelicals Rally to Trump, Religious ‘Nones’ Back Clinton Pew Forums
***STUDENT MEDIA
Intern reporter arrested covering Black Lives Matter protests in Baton Rouge Student Press Law Center
***GRAMMAR
Why journalists (and their stylebooks) prefer the more-modest spelling, adviser Chronicle of Higher Ed
Travel Through Literature: The Sun Also Rises Napels Herald
The World’s Best Philosopher of Linguistics Chronicle of Higher Ed
***WRITING& READING
Data Mining Reveals the Six Basic Emotional Arcs of Storytelling MIT Technology Review
Why Most Academics Will Always Be Bad Writers Chronicle of Higher Ed
When Words Fail (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Psychological Benefits of Writing Regularly Life Hacker
AP Stylebook terms for covering violence GateHouse Newsroom
Walt Whitman Gives Advice to Aspiring Young Writers: “Don’t Write Poetry” & Other Practical Tips (1888) Open Culture
Essential Self-Editing Tips to Deliver Better Copy Tech
***LANGUAGE
How to Navigate by Nostalgia: The Linguistics of Place Names Jstor
***LITERATURE
Why even poets hate poetry (a review of The Hatred of Poetry-By Ben Lerner) Economist
Library of Congress struggles in the Digital Era n+1 magazine
McSweeney’s Meets Internet: A little publisher survives holding tight to its eclectic, literary roots Harvard's Nieman Lab
***RESEARCH
Science Students Learn to Use Social Media to Communicate Research Chronicle of Higher Ed
***RACE
How Americans view the Black Lives Matter movement Pew Research Center
This Sikh Man Has Been Wrongly Accused Of A Terror Attack For A Second Time BuzzFeed
Study Explores Links Between Politics And Racial Bias NPR
The Dark Side of American Soccer Culture New York Times magazine
Can you spot the reason people are upset about Paul Ryan's latest Instagram post? AOL News
The Health Costs of Racism (audio) Science Friday
Sharp differences over who is hurt, helped by their race Pew Research
Racial Tensions Strain Relations In The Workplace NPR
***SEXUAL ASSAULT
Snapchat's face-mapping filters empower sexual assault survivors to tell their own stories CBC
Why Society Blames Victims, According To Science Huffington Post
***FREE SPEECH
In a Time of Tension, Universities Craft New Free-Speech Policies (sub. req'ed) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LEGAL ISSUES
How copyright trolls plunder both US citizens and… rights holders Fight Copyright Trolls
***RELIGION
IRS probe of televangelist Robert Tilton's church draws court challenge Tulsa World
The Evangelical "Money Cult" (video, opinion) Reason
PCUSA claims MegaChurch Vote to Leave Denomination is Invalid Layman.org
Bible Gateway now lets users search the Bible using emoji Religious News Service
The Eclipse of White Christian America The Atlantic
Evangelicals increasingly say it’s becoming harder for them in America Pew Research
What It’s Like to Escape the Christian Fundamentalist 'Quiverfull' Movement Vice
Are churches key to solving social problems? Fewer Americans now think so Pew Research
Creationist Ken Ham gets busted lying about his Ark exhibit’s abysmal opening day turnout (opinion) Dead State
***RELIGION & POLITICS
Trump’s VP Choice, Backed Controversial ‘Religious Freedom’ Law Chronicle of Higher Ed
What it means that Mike Pence called himself an ‘evangelical Catholic’ Washington Post
Are Trump Supporters Nostalgic For A Fading White, Christian America? NPR
***STUDENT LIFE
Why Those Millennials With Tons of Loans Won’t Refinance Bloomberg
When Millennials Become Managers Chronicle of Higher Ed
Men drinking craft beer, women eating quinoa, and other millennial foodie trends, ranked Washington Post
How to Host Your Parents Without Losing Your Mind Life Hacker
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Becoming a Freelance Academic Chronicle of Higher Ed
So Many Research Scientists, So Few Openings as Professors New York Times
***SCIENCE
The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 scientists Vox
There Is No Scientific Method (opinion) New York Times
No Scientific Method, They Say Science Mag
***PSYCHOLOGY
Your Therapist Is Typing... Digg
***NEUROSCIENCE
Neuroscientists Still Don’t Know Why Music Sounds Good Wired
***PHILOSOPHY
The Entire Discipline of Philosophy Visualized with Mapping Software: See All of the Complex Networks Open Culture
Why You Don’t Know Your Own Mind (opinion) New York Times
***CRITICAL THINKING
Author discusses her new book, Reimagining Popular Notions of American Intellectualism Inside Higher Ed
***PERSONAL GROWTH
You are a liar by default, and you lie most to yourself Becoming (my blog)
There’s more than practice to becoming a world-class expert The Conversation
***ETHICS
Frankenstein’s paperclips: The ethics of AI Economist
Do CRISPR enthusiasts have their head in the sand about the safety of gene editing? STAT
***HIGHER ED
University websites: The so-so, the bad, and the egregious University Affairs
Weeks after Temple president ousted the provost, the board says it will remove the president Inside Higher Ed
US spending on prisons and jails grew three times as fast as spending on education in the last 3 decades Business Insider
Op-Ed: Christian Universities Can't Have It Both Ways NBC News
***HUMANITIES /STEM
What Classics Professors Can Teach the Rest of Us Chronicle of Higher Ed
***TEACHING
Amazon Unveils Online Education Service for Teachers New York Times
A new crop of hands-on universities is transforming how students learn Economist
Do You Assign Enough Reading? Or Too Much? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***CRIME ON CAMPUS
Senate Hearing on Campus Harassment and Bullying Wired
Kansas State University is clashing with the federal government over whether it’s legally required to police off-campus behavior Business Insider