articles of interest - March 6
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Big data, financial services and privacy: Should our bankers and insurers be our Facebook friends? Economist
How YouTube Is Changing Our Viewing Habits NPR
Driven to distraction: Smartphones are strongly addictive The Economist
Emojis Begin Cropping Up Outside Of Your Smartphone NPR
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Why the Internet Didn’t Kill Zines New York Times
Traditional TV’s surprising staying power The Economist
***TECHNOLOGY
The Golden Age of Email Hacks Is Only Getting Started Wired
'Stupid Hackathon' Delivers Intentionally Useless Tools (an app which misdiagnoses you with exotic diseases and a Facebook messaging app that makes your friend wait for a message that will never come) The Verge
***BIG DATA
NY Times Profiles Trump Campaign Big Data Company New York Times
Will Big Data Fuel a New Religion When the Algorithm Understands you better than you do? Wired
Machine Learning Impact: New Tools for Bankers Make Save 360K Lawyer Hours Bloomberg
Why Literature is the Ultimate Big-Data Challenge Economist
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Fear that we are missing out on something Becoming (my site)
***WRITING& READING
Online tools allowing students to paraphrase academic work are facilitating plagiarism Inside Higher Ed
Journaling Showdown: Writing Vs. Typing LifeHacker
It took Donald Trump three tries to spell 'hereby' correctly on Twitter The Week
***LANGUAGE
The Language Wars Jstor
***LITERATURE
The New Yorker's new bot will tweet 92 years worth of poetry at you Poynter
***GENDER
Supreme Court: Racism can upend jury verdicts USA Today
Women's studies has changed over the years -- and it's more popular than ever USA Today
***RACIAL ISSUES
Want to Profit Off Your Meme? Good Luck if You Aren’t White Wired
Two Mizzou students arrested for anti-Semitic messages St. Louis Today
Literature report shows British readers stuck in very white past The Guardian
Racial Gap Among Senior Administrators Widens Inside Higher Ed
Blacks more likely to follow up on digital news than whites Pew Research Center
White Supremacists Ramp Up Efforts To Recruit College Kids Vocativ
How The Internet Fueled The Rise In Hate Crimes In California Fast Company
***FREE SPEECH
Supreme Court Considers Whether N.C. Law Violates First Amendment NPR
A conservative author tried to speak at a liberal arts college. He left fleeing an angry mob Washington Post
A Scuffle and a Professor's Injury Make Middlebury a Free-Speech Flashpoint Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LEGAL ISSUES
Internet firms’ legal immunity is under threat The Economist
High court sidesteps ruling on transgender rights Politico
***RELIGION
Alabama Megachurch asks for its own police department AL.com
Peter Popoff, the Born-Again Scoundrel GQ
Religious Freedom Debate: Liberty To Some, Anti-Gay Discrimination To Others NPR
'The Shack' review: Grieving man embarks on spiritual quest Chicago Tribune
Deadly storms damage churches, Baptist college Baptist Press
Technology transforms ancient art of Bible translation Orlando Sentinel
Muslims and Islam: Key findings in the U.S. and around the world Pew Research Center
The key to understanding evangelicals’ upside-down support for the travel ban Religion News Service
Does 'Logan' Have More of a Christian Message Than 'The Shack'? Relevant
Ranking evangelical universities according to their Klout score Washington Times
***MUSIC
Music's Weird Cassette Tape Revival Is Paying Off Fast Company
The Weirdest Thing About How Music Triggers Memories New York Mag
***JOURNALISM
How a pop-up magazine experiment is turning journalism into performance art PBS
California Supreme Court says officials' emails are public records abc7.com
Science covered in the news is more likely to be overturned Stat News
America’s State Secrets and the Freedom of Information Act Jstor
The Associated Press' plan to put hyperlocal data in the hands of reporters Tech Crunch
How youth navigate the news landscape Knight Foundation
10 innovative data visualizations of Trump’s first month in the White House StoryBench
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Journalism Fights for Survival in the Post-Truth Era Wired
How The New York Times Is Clawing Its Way Into the Future Wired
***PSYCHOLOGY
These brain scans show how dying is very personal Fast Company
***NEUROSCIENCE
Ben Carson Just Got a Whole Lot Wrong About the Brain Wired
***ETHICS
Embryo Experiments On Human Development Raise Ethical Concerns NPR
***CRITICAL THINKING
How to Fine-Tune Your Bullshit Detector Fast Company
***HIGHER ED
***ONLINE CLASSES
***STUDENT MEDIA
Judge Boots UCSD’s Satirical Newspaper Out of Court CourtHouse News
Iowa’s college-based newspapers adapt to digital readers Des Moines Register
***STUDENT LIFE
10 Reasons Why C Students Are More Successful After Graduation The Huffington Post
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Northwestern U. Is Accused of Violating Academic Freedom Chronicle of Higher Ed
***RESEARCH
Copyright compliance and infringement in ResearchGate full-text journal articles SpringerLink
Peer-review activists push psychology journals towards open data Nature News & Comment