Articles of Interest - July 25
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
The Reason Your Feed Became An Echo Chamber — And What To Do About It NPR
Twitter opens account verification to all PR Daily
***BIG DATA / STATS
How the Gurus behind Google Earth Created the Geomapping Mobile Game 'Pokemon Go' Mashable
Silicon Valley's new Religion (and next shiny new thing)- AI and Robots New York Times
How Bayesian Probability can be incorporated into Machine Learning Fast ML
Data Science Tips from Reddit's r/datascience users Data Dependence
40 Techniques Used by Data Scientists including clustering pattern recognition and Bayesian Stats Data Science Central
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Facebook Live Grew Up Quickly. Here’s How Broadcasters Are Jumping In Media Shift
***JOURNALISM
The Case Against the Media. By the Media New York Mag
Report: Outsourcing copy editing doesn’t mean more corrections Poynter
Pentagon revises manual to clarify protections of journalism Associated Press
What 'selfie journalism' can bring to digital reporting International Journalists Network
Student newspaper publishes string of articles critical of the administration, School retaliates by firing adviser Inside Higher Ed
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith on What’s Wrong (and Right) With the Media NY Mag
The New York Times is trying to narrow the distance between reporters and analytics data Harvard's Nieman Lab
***PSYCHOLOGY
Machine Learning Algorithm Spots Depression in Speech Patterns Motherboard
The Stroop test: how colourful is your language? The Guardian
‘Anatomy of Malice,’ by Joel E. Dimsdale New York Times
***NEUROSCIENCE
Play on! In a first, brain training cuts risk of dementia 10 years later Stat
The neuroscience of “cool” Quartz
***PHILOSOPHY
Why You Don’t Know Your Own Mind New York Times
***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
***PERSONAL GROWTH
What you knew, understood and trusted about everything is OVER. That’s the first truth Becoming (my blog)
***WRITING& READING
Everybody's Talking About Plagiarism. What Is It, Exactly? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LANGUAGE
English encroaches in Italy The Chronicle of Higher Education
Can’t quit saying ‘um’ and ‘ah’? Just learn how to use them better Quartz
***LITERATURE
How Ernest Hemingway Taught the World to Drink The Daily Beast
***GENDER ISSUES
Sexism In Newsroom Culture Not Unique To Allegations Against Roger Ailes NPR
Why some young evangelical women are increasingly drawn to feminism — and to Hillary Clinton Washington Post
***SEXUAL ASSAULT
‘I Want to Get This Right’: Scenes From a Conference on Campus Sex Assault (sub req'ed) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Former UAF hockey player acquitted of rape says the university won't give him his degree Alaska News
***LEGAL ISSUES
University accessing of a student's health records ends with settlement: $425K for whistleblowers Oregon Live
EFF sues US government, saying copyright rules on DRM are unconstitutional Ars Technica
***ART AND DESIGN
Trump/Pence logo replaced after online ridicule PR Daily
The Fonts of Star Trek Fontshop
***RELIGION
Megachurch pastor’s firing illustrates challenges posed by addiction Baptist News
Poll: Evangelicals differ from most Americans on transgender morality LifeWay
Police brutality not a reality according to most white evangelicals Christianity Today
***RELIGION & POLITICS
Liberty’s Falwell Takes the Stage at Republican convention to support Trump Inside Higher Ed
Polls show evangelicals support Trump. But the term ‘evangelical’ has become meaningless Washington Post
***STUDENT MEDIA
Gannet closes Student-run newspaper years Orlando Sentinel
Student newspaper publishes string of articles critical of the administration, School retaliates by firing adviser Inside Higher Ed
***SCIENCE
We need to talk about the bad science being funded The Conversation
Lying scientists and the lying lies they tell ZDnet
***HIGHER ED
Microsoft announces professional degree program to fill the skills gap Tech Crunch
The student loan debt crisis is overblown, The real problem is college completion rates VOX
Malcolm Gladwell Is Making Enemies In Higher Education. That’s A Good Thing Huffington Post
***HUMANITIES /STEM
Why Social Science Risks Irrelevance Chronicle of Higher Ed
***TEACHING
Should Colleges Really Eliminate the College Lecture? The Atlantic
How One English Professor Plans to Turn Melania Trump Into a Teachable Moment Chronicle of Higher Ed
Cheating Behaviors among Undergraduate College Students Journal of Criminal Justice Education (sub req’d)
Education Dept. Proposes Rules to Clarify State Oversight of Online Courses Dept. of Ed
Students and teachers detail pervasive cheating in a program owned by test giant ACT Reuters
***STUDENT LIFE
Grad Students Treated Like Secretaries in Chinese Science Sixth Tone
Co's Turning to 'reverse mentoring' to tap millennials' knowledge Star Tribune
Study: Gap between Expectations of Personal Attitudes and Religious Diversity among Students Inside Higher Ed
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
3 Reasons Unpaid Internships Are Seriously Not Worth Your Time Huffington Post
There is one type of internship that's more beneficial than others
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Author Discusses How Academics should use social media Inside Higher Ed
***RESEARCH
Does expertise matter in replication? An examination of the reproducibility project: Psychology Science Direct
An 'Epidemic' of Academic Fraud Inside Higher Ed