Articles of Interest - Nov 21
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Your Filter Bubble is Destroying Democracy Wired
Ex- Head Of Twitter News: Social Media Companies Alone Shouldn't Regulate 'Fake News' NPR
Instagram launches disappearing Live video and messages Tech Crunch
Social Media Update 2016Facebook usage and engagement is on the rise, while adoption of other platforms holds steady Pew Research
***TECHNOLOGY
'Augmented Intelligence' for adaptive and personalized learning markets Inside Higher Ed
Nine ways a Trump presidency might change the tech industry Talking New Media
***BIG DATA
How A Lawsuit Over Hot Coffee Helped Erode the 7th Amendment Priceonomics
Google’s neural networks invent their own encryption New Scientist
7 big data tools to ditch in 2017 Let's start with MapReduce and Storm Info World
A Beginner’s Guide to Neural Networks with R! KD Nuggets
The differences betw AI, Machine Learning, NLP, Deep Learning Forbes
The impact of AI on the legal profession A New Domain
The current state of machine intelligence 3.0 (w/infographic) Data Science Central
***ART & DESIGN
Neural artistic style transfer experiments with Keras Giuseppe Bonaccorso
***PERSONAL GROWTH
What Your Childhood Memories tell you about yourself Becoming (my blog)
It took America 200 years to abolish boredom. Now that looks like a huge mistake Vox
***WRITING& READING
Top 20 Fiction Books of 2016 (so far) The What List
Is Audio Really the Future of the Book? Jstor
***LANGUAGE
'Post-truth' declared word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries BBC
Literally, Seriously? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
This website recommends novels by making sure you can’t judge a book by its cover The Verge
How ‘cutting up’ Shakespeare’s plays can be an act of creative destruction The Conversation
***GENDER ISSUES
The real secret to Asian American success was not education Washington Post
***FREE SPEECH
Prof says free speech rights violated after he is taken for psych evaluation over tweets New York Daily News
***LEGAL ISSUES
The impact of AI on the legal profession: Ross, Beagle, Recommind & Kim are already here A New Domain
Members of 60s band The Turtles Settle Copyright Lawsuit Hollywood Reporter
IMDb sues California to overturn law forcing them to remove actors' ages The Guardian
It’s Finally Legal To Hack Your Own Devices (Even Your Car) Wired
Indiana Supreme Court rules Notre Dame police not subject to open records law Student Press Law Center
How A Lawsuit Over Hot Coffee Helped Erode the 7th Amendment Priceonomics
***RELIGION
Dallas Baptist Megachurch Moves Forward with Accepting Gays, Despite Fallout NBC DFW
White Evangelical Leaders Already Distancing Themselves from the “81-Percenter Religious Dispatches
Entering Religious Life Doesn't Mean Leaving The World Behind NPR
Jerry Falwell Jr. on Twitter: 'Pope Francis Lost All Credibility' Sojourner
Evangelical support for Trump strains relationships among believers Waco Tribune Herald
'Sanctuary churches' vow to shield immigrants from Trump crackdown National Catholic Reporter
InterVarsity Press in United States to Cease Publication of Stephen Sizer's Books SnapShots
One-in-Five U.S. Adults Were Raised in Interfaith Homes: A closer look at religious mixing in American families Pew Research
***MUSIC
Leonard Cohen’s Final Interview: Recorded by David Remnick of The New Yorker Open Culture
How Streaming Is Changing The Sound Of Pop Music Hypebot
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Inside 5 publishers' efforts to monetize virtual reality Digiday
What’s in a Brand Name? Research shows there’s a reason that you shouldn’t call your company Tronc New Yorker
TV still the top source for election results, but digital platforms rise Pew Research
***JOURNALISM
BuzzFeed’s pro tennis investigation displays ethical dilemmas of data journalism Columbia Journalism Review
Facebook rolls out online courses for journalists GateHouse News
Trigger warning: UK students vote to ban ‘offensive’ newspapers at journalism school Spectator
Majority of U.S. adults think news media should not add interpretation to the facts Pew Research
***JOURNALISM & FAKE NEWS
How Fake News Goes Viral: A Case Study New York Times
False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and/or Satirical “News” Sources Melissa Zimdars (assistant professor of communication, Merrimack College)
Facebook fake-news writer: ‘I think Donald Trump is in the White House because of me’ Washington Post
Fixing Fake News (opinion) Stratechery
The scariest part of Facebook’s fake news problem: fake news is more viral than real news Vox
According to Snopes, Fake News Is Not the Problem Back Channel
Facebook Shouldn’t Bother Policing Fake News—It Should Go Local Instead Wired
Fake news is everywhere. Should the tech world help stop the spread? Tech Republic
***STUDENT MEDIA
How Mizzou’s School Newspaper Learns from Audience Analytics Media Shift
***STUDENT LIFE
Millennials Bloomberg
***PSYCHOLOGY
Feelings Toward A Partner Affect Brand Buying Decisions, Study Says NPR
***NEUROSCIENCE
TV And Videogames Rewire Young Brains, For Better And Worse NPR
***PHILOSOPHY
An Animated, Monty Python-Style Introduction to the Søren Kierkegaard, the First Existentialistin Philosophy Open Culture
***ETHICS
Good People: An Israeli novelist asks how anyone could serve Hitler or Stalin Economist
***HIGHER ED
Book argues that faculty’s diminishing influence puts higher education at risk Inside Higher Ed
How Trump Could Spark a Renaissance in Higher Education (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
More Than 100 Colleges Push To Keep Deportation Protections For Undocumented Students BuzzFeed News
What the Humanities mean to a Journalist — and the future of Journalism California Humanities
Liberty University president meets with Trump The News & Advocate
Christian colleges grapple with Trump’s election, views on women and minorities Religious News Service
***TEACHING
I Know My Student Plagiarized. Do I Have Enough Evidence to Prove It? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Berkeley Grad Students: School Should have told us prof was being investigated for Sexual Harrassment Inside Higher Ed
***TITLE IX
Fight Over the Recording of Title IX Proceedings Exposes Gaps in Law and Trust (sub. req'ed) Chronicle of Higher Ed