Articles of Interest - June 13
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
32m Twitter passwords may have been hacked and put up for sale on the Deep Web The Next Web Washington Post
Creepy startup will help landlords, employers and online dates strip-mine intimate data from your Facebook page Washington Post
How Academics and Researchers Can Get More Out of Social Media Harvard Business Review
Social-media apps that used to receive most attention are now getting significantly less screen time ZD net
Stars of social media are trying to break into the mainstream Economist
Facebook activates ‘safety check’ in Orlando Washington Post
‘Chewbacca Mom’ Has Gotten $420,000 Worth of Gifts Since Facebook Video Went Viral TIME
Microsoft to buy networking site LinkedIn for $26.2 billion Associated Press
Snapchat redesigned its publisher section and now lets you subscribe to your favorite channels Recode
5 ways brand managers can use Periscope and Meerkat PR Daily
***PRODUCING MEDIA
The Future of Podcasting Stratechery
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Betting on Those We Love Becoming (my site)
***PSYCHOLOGY
It’s not just college students: Higher education itself is experiencing a mental health crisis Quartz
America’s obsession with adult coloring is a cry for help Quartz
Character-driven: Why never giving up is a worthwhile goal (book review) Economist
Learn to Spot a Liar With These Verbal Signs Life Hacker
The problem with trying to solve gun violence by going after the mentally ill Washington Post
How Seeing YouTube Videos Helped me Understand my Schizophrenia NPR
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist Medium
Why You Just Lost 20 Minutes to the Internet Chronicle of Higher Ed
***NEUROSCIENCE
***JOURNALISM
What happens when a 50-something journalist gets a week’s worth of news from Snapchat Discover? Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Blendle, the ‘Spotify of Journalism,’ May Be the Antidote to Ad Blockers Newsweek
Write An Essay To Win A Local Newspaper NPR
The Washington Post is dabbling in translations to reach a growing non-English speaking audience Harvard Nieman Lab
Can Anyone Save The New York Times from Itself? Vanity Fair
***GRAMMAR
The Double Life and Death of Dickens The Atlantic
When it comes to language, some users are more peevish than others Economist
Why The New York Times published a story with (almost) no periods Poynter
Transitive and Intransitive verbs in the Economist style book Chronicle of Higher Ed
***WRITING& READING
Can Reading Make You Happier? The New Yorker
June Means AP Stylebook Changes Prof KRG
***LANGUAGE
Why The Spanish Language Isn’t ‘Foreign’ In The United States Huffington Post
Babies’ brains are wired to learn multiple languages at once Quartz
Software that Supports Multilingual Dialogue Chornicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
Stealing Books in the Age of Self-Publishing The Atlantic
English professor's 500-plus tweetstorm about 'King Lear' is the literary community’s hottest beef The Verge
Oscar Wilde came from a wild and eccentric family (book review) Economist
If Jane Austen Got Feedback From Some Guy In A Writing Workshop BuzzFeed
BBC Radio Drama of Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov: Streaming Free for a Limited Time Open Culture
Italian Newspaper’s ‘Mein Kampf’ Giveaway Sparks Backlash Huffington Post
19 of literature’s best first lines PR Daily
***RESEARCH
Fraud, bureaucracy and an obsession with quantity over quality still hold Chinese science back The Economist
How to handle an idiotic review (opinion) Scientist Sees Squirrel
***GENDER ISSUES
College dorms a new front in U.S. battle over transgender rights Reuters
Gender Disparity in Scholarly Publishing Revisited (there are precious few women heading scholarly publishing organizations or their Boards) The Scholarly Kitchen
In effort to understand continuing racial disparities, NIH to test for bias in study sections Science Mag
Colleges are scrambling to ensure housing for transgender students meets federal standards Reuters
***RACE
Race and Sexual Harassment in Academia Jstor
Fox Sports Florida Reporter in Hot Water for Racist Comments Adweek
100 years of data about Pulitzer Prize Winners (the women and people of color who are being shut out of American journalism’s most prestigious award) Columbia Journalism Review
***FREE SPEECH
Free Speech is in Retreat Economist
A First Amendment For Social Platforms BuzzFeed
Curbs on Free Speech Grow: It's Time to Speak Out (opinion) Economist
How California’s new copyright bill could chill public debate Columbia Journalism Review
Young westerners are less keen than their parents on free speech Economist
Gawker’s Bankruptcy Is How a Free Press Dies, One VC at a Time (opinion) Wired
***TECHNOLOGY
The internet of things: Connected homes will take longer to materialise than expected Economist
***THE INTERNET
***FILM
Propaganda film project backfires on North Korea Telegraph
***BIG DATA
Poll resuts-the most popular general data science platforms KD Nuggets
Hadoop creator: Tech that will soon allow Hadoop to squeeze more value from big data ZDnet
How Government-Funded Big Data technologies successfully Transition to the Commercial Sector Inside Big Data
***RELIGION
I’m a Woman Who Got Kicked Out of Women’s Bathrooms: written by Professor of English at George Fox University (opinion) Christianity Today
Divided America: Evangelicals feel alienated, anxious Associated Press
'God's Not Dead' Producers Facing $100M Copyright Lawsuit Hollywood Reporter
Southern Baptist membership declines yet again Associated Press
Dr. James Dobson: Christian Parents Will Violate Scripture if Daughters Use Trans-Inclusive Bathrooms Christian Post
Georgia Baptist official says religious freedom is not for Muslims Religious News Service
Texas lieutenant governor deletes Bible tweet after shooting KRGV-TV
Secular Voters Raise Their Voices: So-called ‘nones’ work to harness their growing numbers into a strong political bloc Wall Street Journal
***STUDENT LIFE
How Student Debt Affects Personal Choices Of Young People NPR
Teens having less sex and are drinking and using drugs less often, study finds LA Times
One of the best ways to predict whether a student will drop out Inside Higher Ed
***SCIENCE
How should we treat science’s growing pains? (Quality control has failed to keep pace with the growth of science) The Guardian
Framing science in televised interviews: researchers use personal accounts as a way of reframing news stories introduced by the program hosts Public Understanding of Science
Google launches Science Journal to turn your phone into a research lab The Next Web
***ETHICS
A critical take on the Steve McCurry Photojounalism Scandal” Writing Through Light
Psychology instructor withdraws book chapter after refusing to add language that he asserts a publisher demanded Inside Higher Ed
***HIGHER ED
Orlando Colleges Offer Support After Mass Shooting at Gay Club Chronicle of Higher Ed
The class ceiling: China’s education system is deeply unfair Economist
University pays $20,000 to ransomware hackers BBC
How Colleges Train for Active Shooters on Campus (sub. req.) Chronicle of Higher Ed
California bill takes aim at religious colleges that seek to bar transgender students EdSource
***TEACHING
Reformers are showing that the best teachers are made, not born Economist
***SEXUAL ASSAULT ON CAMPUS
Stanford U Defends Its Role in Rape Case Inside Higher Ed
Former Stanford swimmer's case renews debate about second chances for athletes Inside Higher Ed
Stanford University on defensive over efforts to deter sexual assault Globe and Mail
‘We’re horrified’: At Stanford, the impact of a sexual assault is searing Washington Post
These colleges have the most reports of rape – but that may not be bad Sacramento Bee
Advocates Warn against Ranking Colleges Handling Sexual Assault Based on Clery Data Inside Higher Ed
California College Reaches Deal to Resolve Investigation of Sexual-Assault Cases Chronicle of Higher Ed