Articles of Interest - July 4
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
In a blow to publishers, Facebook tweaks News Feed to emphasize friends over the news Poynter
How Twitter is Used at Physics Conferences Springer Blog
Meet Facebook's ruthless algorithm mafia (video) Cnet
Your Facebook Echo Chamber Just Got a Whole Lot Louder Wired
Facebook does the right thing, looks after its own customers Talking New Media
***TECHNOLOGY
Chatbot lawyer overturns 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York The Guardian
***THE INTERNET
UN condemns internet access disruption as a human rights violation The Verge
***BIG DATA
Researchers outline guidelines for ethically dealing with the deluge of data collected about students Inside Higher Ed
Understanding Google's ranking algorithm "Wide and Deep Learning" which has just been open sourced Amey Kamat blog
How neural nets are powering Google's push to put machine learning into all of its products Back Channel
Using Data Sets to anticipate Future Visual representations (video) MIT
Which is more likely to lead to blunders: the complexity of the situation, decision maker's skill or time pressure Technology Review
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Digital media layoffs continue, this time at International Business Times Poynter
***JOURNALISM
10 Things We Learned by Analyzing 9 Million Comments from The New York Times Engaging News Project
The Associated Press will use automated writing to cover the minor leagues Poynter
North Georgia newspaper publisher jailed over open records request Atlanta Journal-Constitution
How an Ohio judge’s ruling threatens journalists’ ability to cover the court system Columbia Journalism Review
How The NY Times Is Using Virtual Reality To Revitalize Storytelling psfk
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Mislabeled As A Memoirist, Author Asks: Whose Work Gets To Be Journalism? NPR
How Much Do We Love TV? Let Us Count the Ways New York Times
Benghazi Report Shows the Internet Is Killing Objectivity Wired
Knight Foundation gives Poynter $758,000 to remake online journalism education Poynter
Dear Journalists: Facebook Is Not Your Friend (It’s Just Using You…) Huffington Post
**SCIENCE
The GOP’s Denial of Science Primed Them for the Illogic of Trump (opinion) Slate
***NEUROSCIENCE
The Mind: Less Puzzling in Chinese? New York Books
Neuroscientists say multitasking literally drains the energy reserves of your brain Quartz
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Here are the (relationship) rules Becoming (my blog)
***GRAMMAR
Me and you need to have a chat about what you call an error Baltimore Sun
It’s Finally Time To Stop Correcting People’s Grammar, Linguist Says Huffington Post
It's not bad grammar Baltimore Sun
An extra period in the Declaration of Independence could change our understanding of the role of government Business Insider
***WRITING& READING
Human Or Machine: Can You Tell Who Wrote These Poems? NPR
How would you respond to these creative essay prompts created by college students? USA Today
Trump Institute Offered Get-Rich Schemes With Plagiarized Lessons New York Times
Copy and Paste Plagiarism in India Nature
***LANGUAGE
Soon Facebook Will Instantly Translate Your Posts Into 44 Languages Wired
***LITERATURE
Book Critic Ruth Franklin On Elie Weisel's Literary NPR
Seattle bookstores tackle the lack of diversity in literature Seattle Globalist
Go Ahead, Judge These Books by Their Covers Wired
***RESEARCH
When Correlation Actually Does Imply Causation Vocativ
***GENDER ISSUES
A third of 2016’s top movies fail the Bechdel test Fusion
Racial, gender wage gaps persist in U.S. despite some progress Pew Research
Men who harass women online are quite literally losers, new study finds Washington Post
Colleges are increasingly creating masculinity programs, aimed at boosting retention while encouraging students to rethink what it means to "be a man." Inside Higher Ed
***RACE
Who Gets Tased? First Statewide Study Reveals Racial Disparities NPR
Do we really become more bigoted with age? Science suggests yes Vox
***FREE SPEECH
Newseum study finds mixed level of public knowledge and support for free-speech principles Student Press Law Center
***LEGAL ISSUES
Exonerated man thanks San Diego lawyers, students from California Western School of Law Union Tribune
U.S. Dept. Of Justice Deals Crushing Blow To Songwriters Forbes
The Fight to Liberate the “Happy Birthday” Song, Told in a Short Documentary Open Culture
***RELIGION
Most American Christians Believe They’re Victims of Discrimination The Atlantic
Conservative Christians Grapple With Whether 'Religious Freedom' Includes Muslims NPR
Steve Green, the man building the Bible museum in Washington, explains what he is up to Economist
***STUDENT MEDIA
When Student Activists Refuse to Talk to Campus Newspapers The Atlantic
New names for student newspaper panned Union Bulletin
***STUDENT LIFE
The myth of millennial entitlement was created to hide their parents’ mistakes Quartz
Why a coding bootcamp probably isn’t right for you Fusion
The real reason so many millennials are living at home Washington Post
Millennials admit using phones to avoid talking to people Cnet
In New Jersey Student Loan Program, Even Death May Not Bring a Reprieve New York Times
***ETHICS
How Should We Respond to ‘Evil’? (opinion) New York Times
***HIGHER ED
"Broadly Evangelical” Liberal Arts College Apologizes to prof 50 years after Tossing him out Christian Today
Student at Risk: Now What? Campus Technology
Faith-based schools decry LGBT rights bill Whittier Daily News
***TEACHING
Make a More Inclusive Syllabus with Tulane’s Accessible Syllabus Project Chronicle of Higher Ed
***SEXUAL ASSAULT
Biden and Obama rewrite the rulebook on college sexual assaults Huffington Post