Articles of Interest about Literature, Journalism, Writing & Languages – Jan 3

***WRITING & READING

The Best Books Of 2019, According To Everyone https://digg.com/2019/best-books-2019-trick-mirror-nickel-boys-say-nothing

The 2010s were supposed to bring the ebook revolution. It never quite came. https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/12/23/20991659/ebook-amazon-kindle-ereader-department-of-justice-publishing-lawsuit-apple-ipad

How to Use Zotero and Scrivener for Research-Driven Writing https://daily.jstor.org/how-to-use-zotero-and-scrivener-for-research-driven-writing  

We Learned to Write the Way We Talk (Opinion) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/27/opinion/sunday/internet-writing-text-emotion.html

Science is science writing; science writing is science https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/12/29/science-is-science-writing-science-writing-is-science/

Bookstore suspends sales of Sociology textbook during plagiarism claims https://www.richmond-news.com/news/kpu-bookstore-suspends-textbook-sales-during-plagiarism-claims-1.24041139

***GRAMMAR

62 Grammar Memes And Jokes From 2019 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emersonmalone/grammar-language-memes-punctuation-2019

Correct Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahschweppecopy/quibbles-bits-newsletter-buzzfeed-copydesk-corrections

***JOURNALISM 

The Most Engaging Stories of 2019 https://blog.chartbeat.com/2019/12/18/most-engaging-stories-2019/

News deserts will proliferate — but so will new solutions https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/12/news-deserts-will-proliferate-but-so-will-new-solutions/

‘Stunning piece of propaganda’: Journalists blast One America News series https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/19/journalists-blast-one-america-news-series-giuliani-087893

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

More Than 1 in 5 U.S. Papers Has Closed. This Is the Result https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/21/reader-center/local-news-deserts.html

California Writers, Photogs Sue State Over New Law That Chokes Freelance Journalism http://sacobserver.com/2020/01/california-writers-photogs-sue-state-over-new-law-that-chokes-freelance-journalism/

***STUDENT MEDIA

The Future of the News Industry, According to Student Journalists  https://www.teenvogue.com/story/student-journalists-future-news

New Mexico  Journalism Department rebuked by professional organizations  https://www.dailylobo.com/article/2019/12/unm-journalism-department-criticized-by-spj-nahj

University of New Mexico clashing with student journalists over public records https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/unm-clashing-with-student-journalists-over-public-records/article_a2c8be9c-28c5-11ea-9d01-ab9b78430600.html

***FAKES & FRAUDS

Snopes, Facebook And Fake Accounts https://www.npr.org/2019/12/22/790553909/snopes-facebook-and-fake-accounts

Lithuanians are using software to fight back against fake news  https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/10/24/lithuanians-are-using-software-to-fight-back-against-fake-news

Social media hosted a lot of fake health news this year. Here's what went most viral.  https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/social-media-hosted-lot-fake-health-news-year-here-s-n1107466

Chief Justice Warns of Internet Disinformation, Urges Civics Educationhttps://ijr.com/chief-justice-warns-of-internet-disinformation-urges-civics-education/

Stop abbreviating 2020. Police say it leaves you open to fraud and could cost you big https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/01/02/do-not-abbreviate-year-2020-in-date/2795857001/

***SOCIAL MEDIA 

From Instagram to TikTok: How social media evolved this decade https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/19/tech/social-media-end-of-decade/index.html

Twitter And Facebook's Race To The Bottom https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/twitter-and-facebooks-race-to-the-bottom

How to beat your social media addiction, according to a therapist https://www.cnet.com/how-to/the-right-way-to-beat-your-social-media-addiction-according-to-a-therapist/

This dad took his son to Mongolia just to get him off his phone https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50830944

***LANGUAGE

3 internet language trends from 2019, explained http://theconversation.com/3-internet-language-trends-from-2019-explained-128588

World's languages describe emotions in very different ways https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2019-12-19/emotions-universal-languages-differ

Teaching a computer Chinese made it excellent at English https://qz.com/1775729/baidus-chinese-language-algorithm-is-excellent-at-english/

Google Assistant Can Now Translate Speech Through Your Phone https://www.wired.com/story/google-assistant-can-now-translate-on-your-phone/

A translation crisis at the border  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/06/a-translation-crisis-at-the-border

Books examine how words influence American culture  https://www.roanoke.com/entertainment/arts/review-books-examine-how-words-influence-american-culture/article_6abedf12-2eae-5f57-b0d9-2f9cbe95948d.html

***LITERATURE

'Little Women': Book Vs. Movie https://www.npr.org/2019/12/21/790422188/little-women-book-vs-movie

Elizabeth Spencer, ‘Light In the Piazza’ author, dies at 98 https://apnews.com/013be99c46bd6558c30202c313cf8925

TS Eliot’s hidden love letters reveal intense, heartbreaking affair https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/02/ts-eliot-hidden-love-letters-reveal-intense-heartbreaking-affair-emily-hale

1924 Copyrighted Works To Become Part Of The Public Domain https://www.npr.org/2019/12/30/792302139/1924-copyrighted-works-to-become-part-of-the-public-domain

The Decade in Fiction https://thewalrus.ca/the-decade-in-fiction/

The Asian-American Literature Canon Breakers https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/06/the-asian-american-canon-breakers

Barbara Testa Dies at 91; Her Discovery Rocked the Literary World https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/30/books/barbara-testa-dead.html

***POETRY

Poet Louis Jenkins found beauty in the Midwestern mundane https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/12/21/poet-louis-jenkins-found-beauty-in-the-midwestern-mundane

Inspired by Emily Dickinson, Alice Tippit’s paintings play out as visual poetry  https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-01-03/emily-dickinson-alice-tippit-review

***PRIVACY & SECURITY 

They claim this new security system is uncrackable and will revolutionize privacy https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/new-security-system-to-revolutionise-privacy/

The hottest new smartphone chat app is secretly spying on you https://bgr.com/2019/12/23/totok-app-spying-on-android-and-iphone-users-nyt-report-says/

Schools are using facial recognition to try to stop shootings. Here’s why they should think twice. https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/12/20/21028124/schools-facial-recognition-mass-shootings

Firms don’t agree as to what California’s new data privacy law requires https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2019-12-26/california-internet-data-privacy-law

Ring and Amazon slammed with a federal lawsuit over failed camera securityhttps://www.digitaltrends.com/home/ring-amazon-federal-lawsuit-hacks/

***PRODUCING MEDIA 

YouTube burnout is real. Here's how creators are coping https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/18/tech/youtube-creator-burnout/index.html