Articles of Interest - April 17
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook plans a free version of its Slack competitor CNBC
Why You Should Always Let Somebody Else Pick Your Profile Picture Co. Design
Facebook is stepping up efforts to automatically identify fake accounts and Likes The Verge
Supermute Twitter Chronicle of Higher Ed
Mastodon.social is an open-source Twitter competitor that’s growing like crazy The Verge
Instagram is going after Pinterest after successfully copying Snapchat Daily Dot
Facebook faces increased publisher resistance to Instant Articles Digiday
Who Has the Best (and Worst) LinkedIn Profile Photos? Priceonomics
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Video is engaging, but video with sound is captivating Medium
WordPress: The smart person's guide Tech Republic
***INTERNET
Selling Your Internet Browsing History NPR
***TECHNOLOGY
How Google Book Search Got Lost Backchannel
The relentless push to add connectivity to home gadgets is creating dangerous side effects that figure to get even worse MIT Tech Review
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Bots aren’t just service tools—they’re a whole new form of media Quartz
SEC targets fake stock news on financial websites Reuters
Boston Globe’s plan for digital reinvention: Be ready for constant change Poynter
Do today’s newspapers have the ad expertise to compete, build new ad revenue? Talking New Media
***JOURNALISM
A day in the life of a journalist in 2027: Reporting meets AI Columbia Journalism Review
Introducing the Facebook for Journalists Certificate Facebook
Journalism faces a crisis worldwide – we might be entering a new dark age The Guardian
‘Blasphemy’: Journalism student killed in Pakistan for Facebook posts Al Arabiya
Reporter firing shows real threat to public-media independence Columbia Journalism Review
Are Facebook And Google Finally Making Journalism All Better? Yeah, Right. Tube Filter
***FAKE NEWS
Evaluating sources in a post truth world ideas for teaching and learning about fake news New York Times
Colleges turn ‘fake news’ epidemic into a teachable moment Washington Post
Watch this university lecture on calling bullshit Recode
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
NGA’s West Coast base looks to set down roots in Valley w/tech industry as it reaches new heights w/satellite data Federal News Radio
A Wall Street test Big Data’s value: Hadoop packager Cloudera preps to go public Tech Crunch
Neural networks were 1st proposed in 1944: Deep learning’s curious past.. and future MIT
Nearly 2/3’s of all big data projects fail according to research from Gartner. Here are 5 ways to improve the odds Tech Republic
Briefly: The fundamental difference and overlap between Machine Learning, Data Science, AI, Deep Learning, and Statistics Data Science Central
A summary of traditional machine learning methods summarized in one picture Data Science Central
Creating fake data sets out of real ones so that data analysis doesn’t compromise sensitive personal information Tech Republic
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The illusion of understanding can be demonstrated with a simple experiment Becoming (my site)
***GRAMMAR
The range of works in play when we tell someone to look up a word to see what it means Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LANGUAGE
***LITERATURE
The fallen woman: prostitution in literature The Guardian
***GENDER
New study suggests female professors outperform men in terms of service -- to their possible professional detriment Inside Higher Ed
Google is accused of underpaying women: The allegation inflames a debate about sexism in Silicon Valley The Economist
Female economists ‘write better but spend longer in peer review’ Times Higher Ed
How Geena Davis became a champion for women on screen The Guardian
***LEGAL ISSUES
Rolling Stone settles with former U-Va. dean in defamation case Washington Post
Melania Trump settles libel lawsuits against London tabloid LA Times
Mercer County judge finds in favor of The Trentonian and freedom of the press The Tentonian
Courts Are Using AI to Sentence Criminals Wired
Could Moderating Your Website Invalidate Your “Safe Harbor”? NSU
Court ruling strengthens journalists' claim of access to emails and other school, college records Student Press Law Center
***RELIGION
‘The Souls Of China' Documents Country's Dramatic Return To Religion NPR
Religious 'nones' projected to decline as share of world population Pew Research Center
Alabama Set To Allow Church To Create Its Own Police Force NPR
How fights over Trump have led evangelicals to leave their churches Washington Post
Supreme Court Scheduled to Hear Important Freedom of Religion Dispute NBC News
Religious restrictions vary in world’s most populous countries Pew Research Center
There may be a lot more atheists than you think Vox
Supreme Court , including Gorsuch, to hear church-state case Washington Post
'The Evangelicals, by Frances FitzGerald (book review) SF Gate
Delaware Republican Lawmaker Walks out on Muslim Prayer NBC 10 Philadelphia
God complex: how religion became the bedrock of modern rap The Guardian
5 facts on how Americans view the Bible and other religious texts Pew Research
***MUSIC
College Apologizes for Trashing Music Majors Inside Higher Ed
American Airlines thought a cello was a safety risk The Week magazine
***FILM
16-Week Crash Course on the History of Movies: From the First Moving Pictures to the Rise of Multiplexes & Netflix Open Culture
***SCIENCE
With new editor Joe Brown, Popular Science is using a “Trojan horse” strategy to take on science skeptics Harvard’s Neiman Lab
***HEALTH
Statistical Thinking: Statistical Errors in the Medical Literature Statistical Thinking
On People Who Take A Small Dose Of Hallucinogens With Their Morning Coffee BBC
How Behavioral Economics Can Produce Better Health Care New York Times
Apple has a secret team working on the holy grail for treating diabetes CNBC
***NEUROSCIENCE
Gut microbes and the brain: Penicillin changes the behaviour of young mice The Economist
Brain scans may reveal mental secret of "Super Agers" CBS News
Neuroscience can now curate music based on your brainwaves, not your music taste Quartz
***PHILOSOPHY
How (And When) To Think Like A Philosopher NPR
Pascal's Wager Explained (video) Susanna Rinard of Harvard University
***PRODUCTIVITY
New to Office 365 in March—co-authoring in Excel and more Office Blogs
***RESEARCH
What Constitutes Peer Review of Data? A Survey of Peer Review Guidelines The Scholarly Kitchen
***HIGHER ED
New York's private colleges and universities don't know what to expect under the state's free tuition program for students attending public colleges Inside Higher Ed
What to Know About New York’s Plan to Offer Free College TIME
Students at Private School Petition to get more Access to Board of Trustees Inside Higher Ed
Taking Stock of FERPA Inside Higher Ed
***TEACHING
English department tackles history, literature and race through the lens of “Hamilton” The Puget Sound Trail
The Distracted Classroom: Is It Getting Worse? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Professor she gave a failing grade to a troublesome student; he told the media he was unfairly singled out for his Christianity: Next Came a Social-Media Storm Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT MEDIA
Faculty Members Criticize Prosecution of Student Whistle-Blower who shared an internal working document with the campus newspaper The Cornell Daily Sun
***STUDENT LIFE
No foul language allowed at Temple University construction site Fox29
What happened to all those unemployable women’s studies majors? Washington Post
Why BuzzFeed says it’s okay to use the word ‘millennial’ Columbia Journalism Review
How college students are fighting human and sex trafficking | News for College Students USA Today
Millennial Hoarders The New Yorkers
***CRIME ON CAMPUS
Virginia Tech Teachers Remember Students' Response To Shooting Tragedy NPR
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Faculty salaries are up slightly year over year, but institutional budgets continue to be balanced “on the backs” of adjuncts and out-of-state students Inside Higher Ed
MSU professor sues Wal-Mart over fishing license that says he cleans toilets Bozeman Daily Chronicle
University of Central Florida reprimands a long-serving professor of art for allegedly demeaning a student Inside Higher Ed