Articles of Interest - Feb 12
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
STUDY: We’re Not Addicted To Smartphones, We’re Addicted To Social Interaction Daily Wire
Jon Gabriel: How to keep social media from rewiring your brain AZcentral
Teens Are Losing It Over Snapchat's Unpopular App Redesign BuzzFeed
Instagram Is Telling People If You Screenshot Their Story In A Test BuzzFeed
Instagram is testing screenshot alerts for stories TechCrunch
Inside the Two Years that Shook Facebook—and the World Wired
Facebook hired a full time pollster to monitor Zuckerberg’s approval ratings The Verge
Facebook Messenger’s ‘Your Emoji’ status tells friends what’s up TechCrunch
Facebook losing young users even faster to Snapchat USA Today
Twitter just had its first profitable quarter CNN
Twitter failed to remove hundreds of Russian propaganda videos aimed at Americans CNN
***MOBILE
Your Mobile Phone Can Give Away Your Location, Even If You Tell It Not To Scientific American
Behold, the 157 new emoji for 2018 Ars Technica
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Podcasting Is the New Soft Diplomacy The Ringer
***INTERNET
You Can Now Mute Websites Forever in Chrome LifeHacker
What to Do If Your Favorite Website Won't Load LifeHacker
***TECHNOLOGY
Chinese police are wearing sunglasses that can recognize faces Quartz
***JOURNALISM
How cleaning off your desk can help you figure out what to say no to Poynter
Proposed Journalist Protection Act Would Make Assault Of Reporter A Federal Crime Forbes
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Theresa May announces review into future of newspapers BBC
Newsonomics: Inside Tronc’s sale of the L.A. Times (and all the new questions to come) Nieman Journalism Lab
New York Times Co. Subscription Revenue Surpassed $1 Billion in 2017 New York Times
Can Independent Web Journalism Survive? PBS Media Shift
***FAKE NEWS
He Predicted The 2016 Fake News Crisis. Now He's Worried About An Information Apocalypse BuzzFeed
Overseas Fake News Publishers Use Facebook’s Instant Articles To Bring In More Cash BuzzFeed
Let’s focus on real journalism, not so called ‘fake news’ (opinion) Grand Rapids Herald Review
A Field Guide to Fake News and Other Information Disorders: A Free Manual to Download, Share & Re-Use Open Culture
The far-right sharing fake news — or conservatives sharing conservative journalism? NiemanLab
***BIG DATA & AI
The Argument Against Quantum Computers Quantam Magazine
Behind Artificial Intelligence Lurk Oddball Low-Paid Tasks Wired
3 steps to get clean, structured data you trust IOT for All
Are the Digits of Pi Truly Random? Here’s one for the data geeks among us Data Science Central
Bayesian model selection shows extremely polarized behavior when the models are wrong Phys org
Cloudera looks to be an Apache Hadoop/Spark alternative to making meaning out of the Data Deluge Federal News Radio
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The Moment You Feel Becoming (my blog)
***GRAMMAR
Oxford comma dispute is settled as Maine drivers get $5 million Boston
How periods and scare quotes can create emphasis far beyond the squiggles on the page Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LANGUAGE
A Language's Popularity Could Influence Its Grammar and Vocabulary The Atlantic
An unsung term that has the magical power of deflecting anger and resentment Chronicle of Higher Ed
How Americans preserved British English BBC
Talking Killer Whales? Gullible Science Journalists More Likely Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
Plagiarism Software Unveils a New Source for 11 of Shakespeare’s Plays New York Times
***GENDER
A word in the Nunes memo that has no male counterpart Chronicle of Higher Ed
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
This is what happens when a class called ‘White Racism’ comes to campus death threats and hate mail keep arriving for the professor Daily Dot
California police worked with neo-Nazis to pursue 'anti-racist' activists, documents show The Guardian
Black History Month posters covered up at University of Tennessee with ones referencing Hitler CBS News
Former Klansman finds Forgiveness and a Friend in a Black Church Philadelphia Inquirer
***RELIGION
Can LGBT Rights and Religious Rights Coexist? Washington Post
Died: James W. Sire, Editor Who Brought Us Francis Schaeffer and Os Guinness Christianity Today
Christian group plans ‘revival’ to protest ‘toxic evangelicalism’ Religious News Service
Ex-CFO stole $100K from Children's Bible Fellowship in Kent: Cops Lohud
The Michigan town where only Christians are allowed to buy houses The Guardian
5 facts about blacks and religion in America Pew Research Center
Racist Bullying? Religious School In Texas Argues Courts Can’t Intervene Huffington Post
***RELIGION AND MUSIC
Natalie Grant reclaims voice from cancer Times FreePress
Trouble No More trailer (video)
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
The complicated history of In God We Trust and other examples Trump gives of American religion Washington Post
3 new books analyze Trump’s faith and his faithful followers Religious News Service
Beth Moore, Jen Hatmaker and other evangelical leaders are publishing a letter urging Trump, Congress to act on immigration The Washington Post
***ART & DESIGN
Compilation of 2017 loops Philip Lueck
***MUSIC
Bob Dylan Updates "The Times They Are A-Changin'" for 2018 (video)
***STUDENT MEDIA
Student-run newspaper says hundreds of copies taken from racks due to controversial story KWCH
***STUDENT LIFE
Over Time, Humanities Grads Close the Pay Gap With Professional Peers Chronicle of Higher Ed
Easily accessible porn prevalent among students Baptist Standard
Preventing suicide: Teen deaths are on the rise, but we know how to fight back USA Today
Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic nowadays - The youth of today Economist
University Won’t Expel student who called himself “the most active white nationalist in the Nebraska area” Chronicle of Higher Ed
Kansas Scrambles To Change Rules After 6 Teens Enter Governor's Race NPR
Dental students took selfie with severed heads at Yale training workshop Associated Press
Transgender student: Professor refused to use preferred pronoun New York Post
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
Digital Media is Driving Job Growth in LA region, report Finds MSNBC
Microsoft releases its LinkedIn resume helper for Word Engadget
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Is There a Smarter Way to Think About Sexual Assault on Campus? New Yorker
Ten women sign letter accusing Northwestern journalism professor Alec Klein of sexual harassment and assault Chicago Reader
Air Force Academy mismanaged sexual assault program, Pentagon says CNN
UNC claims right to shield names of students disciplined for on-campus sex misconduct Herald Sun
UT investigates vandalism connected to professor’s domestic abuse case Statesman
Being Aware Of Abuse May Make People Uncomfortable — And That's OK (by a writing professor) WBUR
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Former William & Mary professor files discrimination lawsuit against college WY Daily
Princeton students leave class after professor allegedly uses N-word Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Northwestern journalism professor accused of misconduct takes leave of absence Chicago Tribune
ICE Detains Chemistry Professor Before He Can Goodbye To His Family Newsweek
How Much Do Professors Work? One Researcher Is Trying to Find Out Chronicle of Higher Ed
Northeastern University professor walks back ‘stupid’ comment on Donald Trump Boston Herald
***SOCIOLOGY
5 facts about crime in the U.S. Pew Research
Talk is cheap: the myth of the focus group The Guardian
***HEALTH
Don't Tell Terminal Cancer Patients It's All Going To Be OK NPR
Many people take dangerously high amounts of ibuprofen Reuters
Are Hand Dryers Actually Full of Bacteria? A Viral Photo Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story The New York Times
Scientists create functioning kidney tissue Manchester
***BUSINESS
When You’re a ‘Digital Nomad,’ the World Is Your Office The New York Times
WeWork: The Perfect Manifestation of the Millennial Id The Atlantic
***PSYCHOLOGY
Why Don't Babies Smile from Birth? Scientific American
The 4 Great Challenges of Christian Counseling Christianity Today
The mental health and loneliness paradox Salon
Major Psychiatric Disorders Have More In Common Than We Thought, Study Finds : The Two-Way NPR
Why You Get Hooked on Candy Crush and Snapchat Bloomberg
People with depression use language differently – here's how to spot it The Conversation
***PHILOSOPHY
Meet the Philosophers Who Give ‘The Good Place’ Its Scholarly Bona Fides Chronicle of Higher Ed
***PRODUCTIVITY
After it stopped posting to Facebook, a Danish broadcaster saw its traffic stability improve Digiday
***HIGHER ED
A library without books? Universities purging dusty volumes Yahoo
Judge blocks UW from billing student Republicans for campus rally Seattle Times
A Crash Course in Crisis Communication for Colleges (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Sexual assault less likely, gender discrimination more likely on Christian campuses Baptist Standard
***TEACHING
Our Students Aren’t In Our Heads With Us: Teach Writing In Your Field With Good Assignment Sheets Chronicle of Higher Ed
This Student Failed Her Assignment Because Her Professor Said "Australia Isn't A Country" BuzzFeed
How One University Connects Students and Mentors With Surprising Success Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why I Stopped Writing on My Students’ Papers Chronicle of Higher Ed
Would College Students Retain More If Professors Dialed Back The Pace? NPR
How to Help Students of Differing Abilities Chronicle of Higher Ed