Literature and Rigid Thinking

Want someone to get past their rigid thinking and increase their openness? Put a novel in their hands. Canadian researchers say it will help them become more sophisticated thinkers and increase their creativity.  

University of Toronto students were asked to read either one of eight short stories or one of eight essays. Afterward, they each filled out a survey to measure the desire for certainty and stability. The short story readers had much lower scores on that test than those who read the essays. The fiction readers showed they needed less order and had more comfort with ambiguity. This was particularly true for participants who already read regularly.  

Writing in the Creativity Research Journal, the researchers say, “Exposure to literature may offer a (way for people) to become more likely to open their minds.” 

Fiction readers can more easily follow thinking styles that differ from their own—they can feel along with characters they may not even like—gaining a better understanding of the viewpoint. 

Read more about the study here. 

Stephen Goforth

Can ChatGPT Pass AP Lit?

A tech journalist goes back to high school to find out what OpenAI’s Chatbot can do.

Literature as antidote

Poetry was always more than poetry in Russia. Former Soviet prisoners are said to have attested that Russian classics saved their lives in the labor camps when they retold the novels of Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Dostoyevsky to other inmates. Russian literature could not prevent the Gulags, but it did help prisoners survive them.

Slaves give birth to a dictatorship and a dictatorship gives birth to slaves. There is only one way out of this vicious circle, and that is through culture. Literature is an antidote to the poison of the Russian imperialist way of thinking. The road to the Bucha massacre leads not through Russian literature, but through its suppression.

Mikhail Shishkin writing in The Atlantic

Articles of Interest about the virus, journalism, lit, writing, and more - Good Friday Edition

***THE VIRUS

Hospital are laying off workers in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic

‘By December, we are going to go through this again’

The Asian Countries That Beat Covid-19 Have to Do It Again  

Grandma whose misfired text to teen led to Thanksgiving invite loses husband to coronavirus

Coronavirus Will Shape the Future of Surveillance 

MIT Will Post Free Plans Online for an Emergency Ventilator That Can Be Built for $100 

***THE VIRUS AT HOME

Should Young Children Wear Masks?

Why You Shouldn’t Wash Produce With Soap During The Coronavirus Crisis

You’re not imagining it: We’re all having intense coronavirus dreams

***VIDEO CONFERENCING 

How Microsoft Teams will use AI to filter out typing, barking, and other noise from video calls 

Zoom vs. Google Hangouts: Video chat apps for working and keeping in touch compared

Google is rebranding Hangouts Chat as just Google Chat

The Zoom privacy and security issues you still need to worry about

Stolen Zoom passwords and meeting IDs are already being shared on the dark web

Racial Slurs And Swastikas Fuel Civil Rights Pressure On Zoom

***JOURNALISM: COVERING THE VIRUS 

Jerry Falwell Jr. Apparently Thinks It’s Criminal to Report on Liberty University

In the ‘new normal’ of covid-19, local TV news proves to be the medium of choice for news and information 

How Journalists Can Address Mistrust in Pandemic Coverage and Help “Flatten the Curve”

An Oklahoma newspaper has apologized for a coronavirus April Fools' story after facing backlash  

Covering biomedical research preprints amid the coronavirus: 6 things to know    

What is HIPAA and how does it affect our understanding of the coronavirus?

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

US newspapers face 'extinction-level' crisis

Pandemic Threatens Local Papers Even As Readers Devour Their Coverage

Media The newspaper industry was already faltering. Will coronavirus obliterate it? 

Removing paywalls on coronavirus coverage is noble. It also makes no sense.  

The Plain Dealer lays off 22 journalists, citing 'industry challenges'  

400 Local Newsrooms Receive Grants to Support Coronavirus Work

***JOURNALISM 

John Oliver takes on OAN

Reciting the First Amendment lines up with CDC hand washing guidelines

***STUDENT MEDIA 

The news must go on: App State’s student-run media continue remotely

Can (and should) we publish the name of a student who tested positive for COVID-19?

How Twitter outrage helped kill part of a student media contest and why that makes no sense (opinion)  

Salve students rise to challenge of keeping school’s media running in face of coronavirus

***FAKES & FRAUDS

Nearly three-in-ten Americans believe COVID-19 was made in a lab

Coronavirus in US: FDA orders Texas church to stop selling fake coronavirus medicine 

Misinformation, Distrust May Contribute To Black Americans' COVID-19 Deaths 

What Role Should Newsrooms Play in Debunking COVID-19 Misinformation?

Decades of science denial related to climate change has led to denial of the coronavirus pandemic 

Misinformation about an outbreak like Covid-19 is important public health data 

 Facebook's lack of moderators is hurting its fight against misinformation

***WRITING & READING

A Bookstore That Closed During the Pandemic Started a Literature Hotline. Now People Are Calling in for Life Advice

Female Writers Examine The Words That Undermine Women  

Plagiarism in Plaguetime

Amazon’s Self-Publishing Arm Is a Haven for White Supremacists

How to edit your own writing

How to read coronavirus news like a science writer

***LITERATURE

What Literature Can Teach Us About Epidemics

‘Weird tale’ by Secret Garden author Frances Hodgson Burnett discovered

The Nobel-Winning Economist who wants you to read more Fiction 

***POETRY

Bruce Dawe's passing is a great loss but his remarkable, socially aware poetry will remain relevant

Joyelle McSweeney’s Poetry of Catastrophe 

National Poetry Celebrations go online

***INTERNET

How the coronavirus will change how we use the internet

How Has the Coronavirus Changed How You Use the Internet?

Articles of Interest about Literature, Journalism, Writing & Languages – Jan 29

***WRITING & READING

The Enemies of Writing: A writer who’s afraid to tell people what they don’t want to hear has chosen the wrong trade  https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/packer-hitchens/605365/

 JRR Tolkien's son Christopher dies aged 95 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/16/jrr-tolkiens-son-christopher-dies-aged-95

 Exploring various scholars' rationales for self-plagiarism https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/01/10/essay-rationales-self-plagiarism

***GRAMMAR 

Who do they think they are? The battle over the singular use of “they” has been waged for centuries https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2020/01/18/who-do-they-think-they-are   

English's pronoun problem is centuries old https://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/english-s-pronoun-problem-is-centuries-old-120012301829_1.html

***JOURNALISM

7 things to consider before adopting AI in your news organisation: A training module for newsrooms https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2019/12/12/7-things-to-consider/

Journalism still has power: But not the way you’d hope  https://www.cjr.org/cjr_outbox/hegseth-trump-gallagher.php

The latest newspaper chain to face Alden Global Capital cost-cutting  https://www.axios.com/media-local-newspapers-private-equity-0add6bce-f44a-4938-82bb-6d4bb01068c8.html

Jim Lehrer's 16 Rules for Practicing Journalism with Integrity www.openculture.com/2020/01/jim-lehrers-16-rules-for-being-a-journalist-with-integrity.html

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

Flipboard expands into local news https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/28/flipboard-expands-into-local-news/

Facebook awards $700,000 in local news grants  https://www.axios.com/facebook-local-news-grants-advertising-f9f7048b-2bd2-4eb6-9bfc-6fe72fb5c359.html

The New York Times used to be afraid of BuzzFeed. Now it’s hired its biggest star. https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/1/28/21112608/ben-smith-new-york-times-buzzfeed-media-revenue-jonah-peretti

***FAKES & FRAUDS

Big Tech platforms struggle to police deepfakes ahead of the 2020 elections    https://www.axios.com/deepfakes-big-tech-policy-facebook-reddit-tiktok-ca7a99b8-e571-4b0b-933a-27e4b2c0b0f7.html   

2020 rules of the road for the Age of Misinformation https://www.axios.com/2020-rules-of-the-road-for-the-age-of-misinformation-87bc3f7e-b064-4b47-bc71-7639b9a82b8a.html

How Swedes Were Fooled By One Of The Biggest Scientific Bluffs Of Our Time https://medium.com/@Soccermatics/how-swedes-were-fooled-by-one-of-the-biggest-scientific-bluffs-of-our-time-de47c82601ad

A new text message scam is disguising itself as a FedEx notification https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/23/business/fedex-text-scam-trnd/ 

How To Spot 2020 Election Disinformation https://www.npr.org/2020/01/23/798809217/how-to-spot-2020-election-disinformation

Clearview AI Says Its Facial Recognition Software Identified A Terrorism Suspect: The Cops Say That's Not True https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/clearview-ai-nypd-facial-recognition

Half of Americans don’t know 6m Jews were killed in Holocaust, survey says    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/22/holocaust-survey-americans-pew-research-center

American Distrust Of The Voting Process Is Widespread, Poll Finds https://www.npr.org/2020/01/21/798088827/american-distrust-of-the-voting-process-is-widespread-npr-poll-finds

Is this video “missing context,” “transformed,” or “edited”? This effort wants to standardize how we categorize visual misinformation https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/01/is-this-video-missing-context-transformed-or-edited-this-effort-wants-to-standardize-how-we-categorize-visual-misinformation/

Misinformation about coronavirus tests Facebook, Google and China  https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-misinformation-facebook-twitter-google-china-246a0325-b4ea-4465-92ae-5f364a7e965c.html

The New York Times tested blockchain to help you identify faked photos on your timeline https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/01/heres-how-the-new-york-times-tested-blockchain-to-help-you-identify-faked-photos-on-your-timeline/

***SOCIAL MEDIA 

Twitter’s Jack Dorsey on edit button: ‘We’ll probably never do it’ https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/15/21066815/twitter-edit-button-jack-dorsey-says-no

Twitter apologises for letting ads target neo-Nazis and bigots https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51112238

Targeting TikTok’s privacy alone misses a larger issue: Chinese state control https://qz.com/1788836/targeting-tiktoks-privacy-alone-misses-a-much-larger-point/

***LANGUAGE 

 How we use language, with a look under the hood https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/mcintyre/bs-ed-mcintyre-20200111-tmf465vuubdebmtpu3p6ngsz2q-story.html

Things You Didn't Know Had Names  https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/63034/48-things-you-didnt-know-had-names 

Using a child’s identified pronouns might feel complicated, but it’s crucial. Here’s why (opinion) https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/01/16/using-childs-identified-pronouns-might-feel-complicated-its-crucial-heres-why/ 

The alphabets at risk of extinction https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200121-the-alphabets-at-risk-of-extinction

Author Interview: Dennis Baron On 'What's Your Pronoun?' https://www.npr.org/2020/01/26/799629318/author-interview-dennis-baron-on-what-s-your-pronoun

'Baby Shark,' Now In 19 Languages And Counting — Including A Navajo Tongue https://www.npr.org/2020/01/28/800557518/baby-shark-now-in-19-languages-and-counting-including-a-navajo-tongue

Discover the Disappearing Turkish Language That is Whistled, Not Spoken www.openculture.com/2020/01/discover-the-turkish-language-that-is-whistled-not-spoken.html

***LITERATURE

The Obscure Editions of Jane Austen Novels That Made Her Internationally Known  https://lithub.com/the-obscure-editions-of-jane-austen-novels-that-made-her-internationally-known/

UCLA receives $25 million from Uniqlo founder for Japanese literature and culture studies http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/25-million-uniqlo-founder-japanese-literature-and-culture

Edgar Allan Poe's Baltimore home was named a literary landmark https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/edgar-allan-poe-baltimore-literary-landmark-trnd/index.html

Virginia Woolf Books To Read If You Want To Explore 20th Century Literature https://www.republicworld.com/lifestyle/books/virginia-woolf-books-to-read-to-explore-20th-century-literature.html

Is Jane Austen the Antidote to Social Media Overload? https://daily.jstor.org/is-jane-austen-the-antidote-to-social-media-overload/

Jeanine Cummins' migrant book 'American Dirt' is problematic; author’s note makes it worse https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2020/01/21/american-dirt-jeanine-cummins-book-review-mexican-migrant/4497859002/

***POETRY

What happens when machines learn to write poetry: should artificial intelligence alter our appreciation of art? http://bit.ly/30CkvI3

Have You Abandoned Your New Year's Resolutions? Tell Us In A Poem https://www.npr.org/2020/01/16/795953834/have-you-abandoned-your-new-years-resolutions-tell-us-in-a-poem

'Ghost poetry': fight over Samuel Beckett's Nobel win revealed in archives https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/17/ghost-poetry-fight-over-samuel-beckett-nobel-win-revealed-in-archives

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA  

Augmented reality contacts are real, and could be here sooner than you think https://mashable.com/article/augmented-reality-contact-lenses-mojo-vision/

The Culling Has Begun’: Inside the iHeartMedia Layoffs  https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/iheartmedia-mass-layoffs-937513

Could iHeart layoffs be the beginning of local radio’s endgame? https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2020/01/could-iheart-layoffs-be-the-beginning-of-local-radios-endgame.htm

2020 won't be the year digital election ads surpass TV  https://www.axios.com/2020-digital-election-ads-tv-75cd82b1-b9a1-4637-b885-8aa654e63291.html

***PRIVACY & SECURITY

Clearview app lets strangers find your name, info with snap of a photo, report says  https://www.cnet.com/news/clearview-app-lets-strangers-find-your-name-info-with-snap-of-a-photo-report-says

Facial Recognition could replace the fingerprint https://story.californiasunday.com/facial-recognition

The Secret History of Facial Recognition https://www.wired.com/story/secret-history-facial-recognition/

Most Americans support right to have some personal info removed from online searches  https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/01/27/most-americans-support-right-to-have-some-personal-info-removed-from-online-searches/

Articles of Interest about Literature, Journalism, Writing & Languages – Jan 13

***LITERATURE

Revisiting American Short Stories Selected by John Updike https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/books/review/revisiting-american-short-stories-selected-by-john-updike.html

South American Literature’s Master of Malaise https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/books/review/juan-carlos-onetti.html

My Accidental Journey to Mr. Darcy’s Estate https://www.thecut.com/2019/12/journey-pride-and-prejudice-colin-firth.html

The importance of postcolonial literature https://dailytimes.com.pk/534227/the-importance-of-postcolonial-literature-daily-times/

The Most Anticipated Books of 2020, According to GoodReads https://fortune.com/2020/01/06/most-anticipated-best-new-books-2020-goodreads/

Elizabeth Wurtzel, ‘Prozac Nation’ author who spurred a memoir boom, dies at 52 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/elizabeth-wurtzel-prozac-nation-author-who-spurred-a-memoir-boom-dies-at-52/2020/01/07/fc1a040e-2fcf-11ea-91fd-82d4e04a3fac_story.html

How Jane Austen’s unfinished novel ‘Sanditon’ became a TV show  https://nypost.com/2020/01/10/how-jane-austens-unfinished-novel-sanditon-became-a-tv-show/

100 Best Books by Black Female Authors, 1850 - Present https://zora.medium.com/100-best-books-by-black-women-authors-zora-canon-46b3492bdded

***WRITING & READING

Racism Scandal In The Romance Writing Industry https://www.npr.org/2020/01/04/793572217/racism-scandal-in-the-romance-writing-industry

Romance Writers Of America Leadership Resign https://www.npr.org/2020/01/09/795002052/romance-writers-of-america-leadership-resigns

***GRAMMAR

In an age of shifting attitudes about gender identity, ‘they’ was the word of the decade  https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/1/9/21058633/nonbinary-gender-identity-my-pronouns-american-dialect-society-linguistics-they-conversation

The idiots’s guide to the apostrophe  http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/gene-weingarten-pickin-up-where-the-apostrophe-protection-society-left-off/2020/01/02/e7479cca-1b8a-11ea-87f7-f2e91143c60d_story.html

***JOURNALISM

Prescription for Journalists: Less Time Studying Twitter, More Time Studying Math https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/prescription-for-journalists/

Roundup of 2019 Tips for Reporting, Press regulator & Ombudsman news https://www.imediaethics.org/roundup-of-2019-tips-for-reporting-press-regulator-ombudsman-news/

We're entering a new golden age of China journalism  https://www.axios.com/journalism-china-media-5caac2b6-ad6b-45b8-9154-9f94c8369fb1.html

News coverage gets geo-fragmented https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/01/news-coverage-gets-geo-fragmented/

ProPublica Outlines Lessons from 3-Year Collaborative Journalism Project https://nonprofitquarterly.org/propublica-outlines-lessons-from-3-year-collaborative-journalism-project/

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman: My computer was hacked to 'download child pornography https://thehill.com/homenews/media/477482-paul-krugman-my-computer-was-hacked-to-download-child-pornography

7 Tips For Covering Horrific Events At Houses Of Worship — And Treating Victims Right https://religionunplugged.com/news/2020/1/10/weekend-plug-in-top-journalists-offer-advice-covering-horrific-events-at-houses-of-worship

Article or Ad: Teen Vogue removes glowing Facebook story without explanation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/01/08/article-or-ad-teen-vogue-removes-glowing-facebook-story-without-explanation/

6 examples of newsroom-library collaborations https://ijnet.org/en/story/6-examples-newsroom-library-collaborations

***MEDIA & THE LAW 

10 Major Media Lawsuits from 2019  https://www.imediaethics.org/10-major-media-lawsuits-from-2019/

CNN confirms a settlement has been reached with Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/01/07/nick-sandmann-cnn-confirms-settlement-covington-catholic-student/2837478001/ 

Judge sides with press over University of Wyoming, orders release of records related to president's demotion https://trib.com/news/local/education/judge-sides-with-press-over-university-of-wyoming-orders-release/article_28ef76bd-a59a-5224-bf32-bc01c89ba761.html

Federal Judge Rules California ‘Gig Labor’ Law Applies To Freelance Journalists https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/01/06/ab5-freelance-journalist-exemption-denied/

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA

Plight of Newspapers Generates Uncommon Bipartisan Unity https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/12/technology/google-facebook-newspapers.html

Trump Fans Aim to Buy San Diego’s One America News Network https://timesofsandiego.com/business/2020/01/10/trump-fans-aim-to-buy-san-diegos-one-america-news-network-wsj-says/

CNN Settles a 16-Year-Long Labor Dispute With Broadcast Technicians for record-setting $76 Million https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cnn-agrees-record-76-million-settlement-national-labor-relations-board-1268678

What went wrong with virtual reality? https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50265414

***STUDENT MEDIA

Ruling in favor of UMass Student Newspaper https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2020/01/01/sjc-rules-favor-umass-student-newspaper-editor/KUmVRgblgA8RuLdRltajPP/story.html

Student Newspaper files complaint against Board of Governors over open meetings   https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2020/01/dth-lawsuit-0108

***FAKES & FRAUDS 

Facebook bans deepfakes in the runup to 2020 election, but ‘shallowfakes’ still allowed https://www.fastcompany.com/90449237/facebook-bans-deepfakes-in-the-runup-to-2020-election-but-shallowfakes-still-allowed

Disinformation For Hire: How A New Breed Of PR Firms Is Selling Lies Online https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/disinformation-for-hire-black-pr-firms

News literacy lessons: How a satirical story about Democrats and Qasem Soleimani was spread as fact. Plus a doctored video of Joe Biden.https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/01/07/news-literacy-lessons-how-satirical-story-about-democrats-qasem-soleimani-was-spread-fact-plus-doctored-video-joe-biden/

Fake text messages about a military draft are being sent to Americans https://www.businessinsider.com/fake-military-draft-text-message-warning-2020-1

“Rated false”: Here’s the most interesting new research on fake news and fact-checking https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/01/rated-false-heres-the-most-interesting-new-research-on-fake-news-and-fact-checking/

Texas school district falls for email scam, hands over $2.3 millionhttps://www.zdnet.com/article/texas-school-district-falls-for-scam-email-hands-over-2-3-million/

***SOCIAL MEDIA 

Snapchat quietly acquired AI Factory https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/03/snapchat-quietly-acquired-ai-factory-the-company-behind-its-new-cameos-feature-for-166m/

Twitter will put options to limit replies directly on the compose screen https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/8/21056856/twitter-replies-limit-option-compose-screen-beta-app-features-new-ces-2020

***TIKTOK

What does TikTok offer publishers? https://medium.com/@corinne_podger/what-does-tiktok-offer-publishers-e6ed0a2b0d63

TikTok is the best place on the internet. We should all delete it https://www.cnet.com/news/tiktok-is-the-best-place-on-the-internet-we-should-all-delete-it/

TikTok’s parent company has secretly built a deepfakes maker https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/03/tiktok-deepfakes-face-swap/

***LANGUAGE

Is this the most powerful word in the English language? www.bbc.com/culture/story/20200109-is-this-the-most-powerful-word-in-the-english-language

 Where Do Finger Names Come From? https://daily.jstor.org/where-do-finger-names-come-from/

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

Articles of Interest about Literature, Journalism, Writing & Languages – Dec 20

***WRITING & READING

Indie booksellers persevere despite Amazon, rising costs  https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/indie-booksellers-persevere-amazon-rising-costs-67656831

The 78 Best Book Covers of 2019 https://lithub.com/the-78-best-book-covers-of-2019

***GRAMMAR

The rightness of the singular ‘they’ (opinion)  https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-12-15/they-singular-grammar-transgender-history

The impeachment debate has sparked a linguistic war over the word “irregardless” https://qz.com/1771950/impeachment-debates-reignite-the-linguistic-fight-over-irregardless/

***JOURNALISM

Newsrooms begin tinkering with 5G to get ahead of the curve https://www.axios.com/5g-newsroom-experiments-new-york-times-e22a6aad-cdff-4d20-9247-cc3465f52ae9.html 

A tweet gave a journalist a seizure: His case brings new meaning to the idea of ‘online assault’ https://nationalpost.com/news/world/a-tweet-gave-a-journalist-a-seizure-his-case-brings-new-meaning-to-the-idea-of-online-assault

***JOURNALISM & THE LAW 

State legislators are subject to public-records law, Washington state Supreme Court rules https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/

Nevada's Top Court Says The State's Journalist Shield Law Also Applies To Bloggers https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191211/10494243555/nevadas-top-court-says-states-journalist-shield-law-also-applies-to-bloggers.shtml

***JOURNALISM: BEST OF 

Best news bloopers 2019  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i7aObzNGuI

The best visual and data-driven stories of 2019 https://pudding.cool/process/pudding-cup-2019/

2019’s Best Investigative Stories from China https://gijn.org/2019/12/16/editors-pick-2019s-best-investigative-stories-from-china/

***JOURNALISM IN THE MOVIES

Hollywood’s 10 Worst Depictions of Female Music Journalists https://variety.com/feature/hollywood-10-worst-female-music-journalists-crazy-heart-richard-jewell-1203435207  

The Fictional Journalism of ‘Richard Jewell’ and ‘Bombshell’ https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/12/17/21025944/richard-jewell-bombshell-fox-news-megyn-kelly-kathy-scruggs

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM 

As print and digital newsrooms struggle, local broadcast stations are making money ‘hand over fist’ https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2019/the-rich-get-richer-local-broadcast-readies-for-a-3-2-billion-political-ad-bonanza-in-2020/

***STUDENT MEDIA

College journalists in New Jersey describe years of “intimidation, harassment, threats” by administrators https://splc.org/2019/12/college-journalists-in-new-jersey-describe-years-of-intimidation-harassment-threats-by-administrators/

AB 5 hurts student journalists https://thedailyaztec.com/97798/opinion/ab-5-hurts-student-journalists/

***FAKE NEWS

How We See Disinformation https://disinfopoll.cjr.org/

30 Viral Fakes That Defined the 2010s https://gizmodo.com/30-viral-fakes-that-defined-the-2010s-1838215357

I created my own deepfake—it took two weeks and cost $552 https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/12/how-i-created-a-deepfake-of-mark-zuckerberg-and-star-treks-data/    

Facebook funding Reuters deepfakes course for newsrooms  https://www.axios.com/exclusive-facebook-funding-reuters-deepfakes-course-for-newsrooms-eccb3daa-4627-4a59-be64-44d9554f85da.html

Fighting misinformation requires journalism, not secret algorithms https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/12/fighting-misinformation-requires-journalism-not-secret-algorithms/

***LANGUAGE

The Language You Speak Influences What You Look At https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/language-and-mind/201912/the-language-you-speak-influences-what-you-look

How to build a language  http://news.mit.edu/2019/constructed-languages-linguistics-1218

Why North Carolina Is the Most Linguistically Diverse State https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/north-carolina-linguistics

***LITERATURE 

Peter Pan’s dark side emerges with release of original manuscript https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/15/peter-pans-dark-side-emerges-with-release-of-original-manuscript

Extremely Shortened Versions of Classic Books For Lazy People  https://www.sadanduseless.com/abridged-classics-funny/#more-81157

Finding the Other: The radical vision of Toni Morrison https://www.thenation.com/article/toni-morrison-essays-fiction-humanism-book-review/

***POETRY

Marriage, Betrayal, and the Letters Behind “The Dolphin” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/16/marriage-betrayal-and-the-letters-behind-the-dolphin

A Book Of Poetry For Everyone https://www.npr.org/2019/12/17/789036879/a-book-of-poetry-for-everyone

What is Poetry? Part 2  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/19/magazine/poem-what-is-poetry-part-2.html

***PRIVACY & SECURITY 
Every victim’s nightmare: Ransomware attackers are now doxing people who don’t pay up
https://www.fastcompany.com/90444707/every-victims-nightmare-ransomware-attackers-are-now-doxing-people-who-dont-pay-up

***SOCIAL MEDIA 

The biggest corporate brands in all of social media https://media.thinknum.com/articles/the-biggest-corporate-brands-in-all-of-social-media/

Taylor Swift is still the most influential person on Twitter in 2019 https://www.cnet.com/news/taylor-swift-is-still-the-most-influential-person-on-twitter-in-2019/

Articles of Interest about Literature, Journalism, Writing & Languages – Nov 29

***WRITING & READING 

The Weirdest Book Titles On Amazon https://www.sadanduseless.com/weird-amazon-books-list/

How do you cope with knowing that the project you poured years of your life into is not quite setting the world on fire? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/25/writing-is-tough-my-book-went-so-unnoticed-i-won-an-award-for-it

The Last Decade Has Been Tumultuous For The Publishing Industry https://www.npr.org/2019/11/26/782867252/the-last-decade-has-been-tumultuous-for-the-publishing-industry

Prisons Around the U.S. Are Banning and Restricting Access to Books www.openculture.com/2019/11/prisons-around-the-u-s-are-banning-and-restricting-access-to-books.html

Messy handwriting reveals mystery translator: Queen Elizabeth I https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/29/handwriting-identifies-elizabeth-i-tacitus-translation

***JOURNALISM

New York Times dropping most social media trackers https://www.axios.com/new-york-times-social-media-trackers-47f547d5-a241-424a-a398-12344c78ac32.html  

Reporting That Hits People Where They Live — by Reporters Who Live There Too https://cronkitenewslab.com/broadcast/2019/11/14/new-generation-storytellers-changing-rules-abc

How one woman captured 30 years’ worth of broadcast news https://lwlies.com/articles/recorder-the-marion-stokes-project-director-interview/?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email

5 Photojournalists Sue Homeland Security for First Amendment Violations https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2019/11/5-photojournalists-sue-homeland-security-for-first-amendment-violations.html

Americans favor mobile devices over desktops and laptops for getting news https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/19/americans-favor-mobile-devices-over-desktops-and-laptops-for-getting-news/ 

An Exhaustive Ranking of Movie Journalists  https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/11/25/20974644/movie-journalists-ranked  

***JOURNALISM & AI

The relationship of journalism to AI http://bit.ly/35z5F6s    

Relevance of AI in Accelerating Journalism and Newsroom Workflow https://www.analyticsinsight.net/relevance-ai-accelerating-journalism-newsroom-workflow/

Actually, it’s about Ethics, AI, and Journalism: Reporting on and with Computation and Data https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/ai-ethics-journalism-and-computation-ibm-new-york-times.php

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

9 charts about America’s newsrooms https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/26/9-charts-about-americas-newsrooms/

Putting a price tag on local news https://knightfoundation.org/reports/putting-a-price-tag-on-local-news/

AP to add 14 statehouse reporters in collaboration with Report for America https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2019/ap-to-add-14-statehouse-reporters-in-collaboration-with-report-for-america

Portland Has Been Overcharging People for Public Records, Court Finds https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2019/11/19/27502241/portland-has-been-overcharging-people-for-public-records-court-finds

***STUDENT MEDIA

Student reporters at BYU-Idaho allegedly pressured not to publish negative stories https://www.eastidahonews.com/2019/11/student-reporters-at-byu-idaho-allegedly-pressured-not-to-publish-negative-stories/

High school journalists who fought censorship win award https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2019/11/25/burlington-high-schoolers-censorship-granted-journalism-award/4295236002  

Lawsuit pits father against daughter after article alleging sex abuse appears in UNC student newspaper  https://www.greensboro.com/news/local_news/no-turning-back-in-lawsuit-pitting-father-against-daughter-after/article_f093b659-134f-5fd8-a7ad-6b98c9f9be2f.html

***FAKE NEWS

The neuroscience of how fake news grabs our attention, produces false memories, and appeals to our emotions https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/11/galaxy-brain-the-neuroscience-of-how-fake-news-grabs-our-attention-produces-false-memories-and-appeals-to-our-emotions/

Fake News Is Costing the World $78 Billion a Year https://cheddar.com/media/exclusive-fake-news-is-costing-the-world-billion-a-year

The Incredibly True Story of Fake Headlines https://daily.jstor.org/the-incredibly-true-story-of-fake-headlines/

Before Trump: the real history of fake news https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/22/factitious-taradiddle-dictionary-real-history-fake-news

***SOCIAL MEDIA 

Here’s What Cancel Culture Looked Like in 1283 (video) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/18/opinion/cancel-culture-victims.html 

Facebook still isn’t clear about why it won’t take down false political ads https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/11/18/20970942/facebook-political-ads-policy-carolyn-everson-code-media   

‘This app is free and therapy is not’: Gen Z will keep using TikTok even if they don’t trust it https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/11/15/this-app-is-free-therapy-is-not-gen-z-will-keep-using-tiktok-even-if-they-dont-trust-it/

TikTok Denies Censoring A Teen Who Criticized China's Concentration Camps — They Said They Banned Her After A Joke About Osama Bin Laden Thirst https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/teen-tik-tok-china-osama-bin-laden

Twitter Said It Will Not Delete The Accounts Of Dead People https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/twitter-wont-delete-the-accounts-of-dead-people-for-now

***LANGUAGE

The Loudness Of Vowels Helps The Brain Break Down Speech Into Syl-La-Bles https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/11/20/780988618/the-loudness-of-vowels-helps-the-brain-break-down-speech-into-syl-la-bles

‘Climate Emergency’ Is the Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2019-11-20/climate-emergency-is-the-oxford-dictionaries-word-of-the-year 

What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian?   https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/education/what-happens-when-college-students-discuss-lab-work-in-spanish-philosophy-in-chinese-or-opera-in-italian/2019/11/18/0eef3f7a-0985-11ea-bd9d-c628fd48b3a0_story.html

***LITERATURE 

The 50 best nonfiction books of past 25 years  https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/11/50-best-nonfiction-books.html

Author hits back after library removes LGBT picture book from shelves  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/20/author-west-virginia-library-removes-lgbt-book-shelves-daniel-haack-prince-and-knight   

George Eliot translation of Spinoza sheds new light on her fiction  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/22/george-eliot-translation-of-spinoza-sheds-new-light-on-her-fiction

***POETRY

‘My cell is smaller than my size’ – how writing poetry saved a political prisoner (video) https://aeon.co/videos/my-cell-is-smaller-than-my-size-how-writing-poetry-saved-a-political-prisoner

Finding poetry in the letters of Vincent van Gogh https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/finding-poetry-in-the-letters-of-vincent-van-gogh-1.4090884   

Typewriter poet pounds out poems in 20 minutes https://www.ktre.com/2019/11/22/webxtra-typewriter-poet-pounds-out-poems-minutes/      

In the Woods of Greenwich, a Studio for Writing Poetry https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/20/style/in-the-woods-of-greenwich-a-studio-for-writing-poetry.html   

Don’t Let Your Children Become Insufferable Poets https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/18/opinion/future-humanities-science-education.html   

Gay Poet's Book Canceled Over Sexy Instagram Pictures https://www.out.com/books/2019/11/15/gay-poets-book-cancelled-over-sexy-instagram-pictures

Who’s More Qualified to Write About Death Than a Funeral Director Poet? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/26/books/review/the-depositions-thomas-lynch.html

***PRIVACY & SECURITY 

Key takeaways on Americans’ views about privacy, surveillance and data-sharing https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/15/key-takeaways-on-americans-views-about-privacy-surveillance-and-data-sharing/

Suspect can’t be compelled to reveal “64-character” password, court rules https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/11/police-cant-force-child-porn-suspect-to-reveal-his-password-court-rules/

***PRODUCING MEDIA

How to Make Your Podcast Sound Like NPR  https://lifehacker.com/how-to-make-your-podcast-sound-like-npr-1840048544

Articles of Interest about Literature, Journalism, Writing & Languages – Nov 16

***WRITING & READING

Singular ‘They’ Pronoun Endorsed by American Psychological Association https://www.out.com/health/2019/11/05/singular-they-pronoun-endorsed-american-psychological-association 

Hey, young adult authors: writing for teenagers is no excuse to act like them https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/15/young-adult-ya-authors-sarah-dessen-brooke-nelson    

***JOURNALISM

Why journalists need to think twice about reporting on arrests https://www.cjr.org/analysis/out-of-omaha-arrest-reporting.php

Proposed Lafayette County resolution threatens to prosecute media outlets that do not print news releases verbatim https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2019/11/08/county-threatens-prosecute-media-who-dont-print-full-news-releases/2533143001/      

Judge dismisses Arpaio lawsuit against CNN, HuffPost, Rolling Stone https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2019/10/31/judge-dismisses-joe-arpaio-lawsuit-against-cnn-huffpost-rolling-stone/4115742002/

A game of society': Why a group of Italian journalists turned Instagram into a board game https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/-a-game-of-society-why-italian-journalists-turned-instagram-into-a-board-game/s2/a746637/

Ask audiences what questions they have about your reporting https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/publications/api-updates/ask-audiences-what-questions-they-have-about-your-reporting 

University of Illinois Is Stifling NPR Reporting on Sexual Misconduct, Critics Say https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/business/media/npr-university-of-illinois-aclu-sexual-misconduct.html

In Data Journalism, Tech Matters Less Than the People https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/13/technology/personaltech/data-journalism-economics.html

How the New York Times gets Los Angeles hilariously wrong: The bingo game https://la.curbed.com/2015/2/19/9991026/new-york-times-los-angeles-bingo

I Am Extremely Here for (Journalism) Paperwork Movie Season https://gen.medium.com/i-am-extremely-here-for-paperwork-movie-season-252e8cba5b16

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM 

In historic shift, The Salt Lake Tribune gets IRS approval to become a nonprofit https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/11/04/historic-shift-salt-lake/

Hundreds of local newspapers are now under one umbrella company following Gannett/GateHouse merger https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/14/media/gannett-gatehouse-merger-approved/index.html

Everyone is admitting what they get paid to work in journalism https://www.cjr.org/cjr_outbox/google-doc-journalism-media-pay.php

***FAKE NEWS

These Hugely Popular Local News Sites In The US And Canada Are Fake https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/fake-local-news-sites-albany-edmonton

AI-generated fake content could unleash a virtual arms race http://bit.ly/2pkpAXk

***STUDENT MEDIA 

The Daily Northwestern Apologizes to Students for Reporting News That Triggered Them  https://reason.com/2019/11/11/daily-northwestern-jeff-sessions-editorial-triggered-students/

News or ‘Trauma Porn’? Student Journalists Face Blowback on Campus https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/13/us/college-campus-journalists-newspapers.html

The 800 papers stolen from the Radford University campus - and the school's failure to say who took them https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/the-case-of-the-missing-radford-university-newspapers-is-cracked-but-whodunit-isnt-being-shared/2019/11/11/104359b4-0495-11ea-b17d-8b867891d39d_story.html 

***SOCIAL MEDIA 

Screen time might be physically changing kids’ brains https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614672/screen-time-might-be-physically-changing-kids-brains/

Who are the U.S. users of Instagram? www.city-data.com/blog/7177-who-are-the-u-s-users-of-instagram/

Measure for Measure: ‘Like’ it or not, influencer marketing is changin https://www.nielsen.com/uk/en/insights/article/2019/measure-for-measure-like-it-or-not-influencer-marketing-is-changing/

Sex Education on TikTok https://www.thedailybeast.com/sex-education-is-so-bad-these-teens-are-doing-it-on-tiktok

Tech companies target your sanity https://www.axios.com/turning-point-online-mental-health-bc1d5fd1-c637-43e1-b4b1-e7cb02d674cb.html

***LANGUAGE

Students create Japanese language-learning game geared toward gamers https://dailybruin.com/2019/11/05/students-create-japanese-language-learning-game-geared-toward-gamers/

How Linguists Are Using Urban Dictionary https://daily.jstor.org/how-linguists-are-using-urban-dictionary/

***LITERATURE 

The Slowness of Literature and the Shadow of Knowledge https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-slowness-of-literature-and-the-shadow-of-knowledge

Cult of the Literary Sad Woman https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/books/review/leslie-jamison-sylvia-plath-joan-didion-jean-rhys.html

Despite the Twerking and F-Bombs, Dickinson Gets Emily Dickinson Right https://slate.com/culture/2019/11/dickinson-apple-tv-accuracy-poetry.html

25 Modern Love Essays to Read if You Want to Laugh, Cringe and Cry https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/style/essential-modern-love-essays.html

***POETRY

'Dickinson' flips everything you learned about female poets upside down https://www.mic.com/p/dickinson-flips-everything-you-learned-about-female-poets-upside-down-19300957  

'Emergency Poet' at world's first walk-in poetry pharmacy prescribes caring words https://www.homecare.co.uk/news/article.cfm/id/1617224/emergency-poet-at-worlds-first-walk-in-poetry-pharmacy-prescribes-caring-words 

An Evening of Poetry in Nine Languages https://www.bowdoin.edu/news/2019/11/an-evening-of-poetry-in-nine-languages.html

Best Canadian Poetry 2019 https://quillandquire.com/review/best-canadian-poetry-2019/

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA   

The Boomers' media behemoth https://www.axios.com/aarp-is-a-media-behemoth-412b5106-f879-477d-806d-6130148956bf.html  

***PRIVACY & SECURITY  

Privacy And DNA Tests https://www.npr.org/2019/11/09/777888000/privacy-and-dna-tests

DHS expects to have biometrics on 260 million people by 2022 https://qz.com/1744400/dhs-expected-to-have-biometrics-on-260-million-people-by-2022/

Facebook caught actively using iPhone cameras while users scroll feeds https://thenextweb.com/apps/2019/11/12/facebook-camera-ios-iphone/

Google, Ascension analyzing data without patients' knowledge https://www.axios.com/google-ascension-data-sharing-fd6c67eb-73f4-41e1-b4a0-3c4db858b076.html

Court rules against warrantless searches of phones, laptops https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/11/12/court-rules-against-warrantless-searches-of-phones-laptops 

Google's secret cache of medical data includes names and full details of millions https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/12/google-medical-data-project-nightingale-secret-transfer-us-health-information

Facebook is secretly using your iPhone’s camera as you scroll your feed https://thenextweb.com/apps/2019/11/12/facebook-camera-ios-iphone/

Articles of Interest about Literature, Journalism, Writing & Languages – Oct 9

***WRITING & READING 

Hundreds of thousands of people read novels on Instagram

https://www.fastcompany.com/90392917/the-next-big-reading-platform-may-be-instagram

The 100 best books of the 21st century 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/21/best-books-of-the-21st-century

How Scientists Were Able To Design A Font Proven To Actually Make You Read Faster 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIm8arSogvY

Who doesn’t read books in America? 

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/09/26/who-doesnt-read-books-in-america/

Translation Plagiarism in Philosophy 

www.dailynous.com/2019/10/01/translation-plagiarism-philosophy/

***GRAMMAR

‘Grammarians’ a captivating novel about word-obsessed twins 

www.postandcourier.com/features/book_reviews/review-grammarians-a-captivating-novel-about-word-obsessed-twins/article_dc3607b0-d4ac-11e9-aa8c-1322ee3c6d11.html

***JOURNALISM

7 key takeaways on information disorder from #Online News Association 19 

https://firstdraftnews.org/7-key-takeaways-on-information-disorder-from-ona19/

We’ve tracked newspaper layoffs, buyouts, and closures by state over the last few years

https://savejournalism.org/2019/09/26/the-grim-reaper-of-journalism-big-tech

Americans Are Wary of the Role Social Media Sites Play in Delivering the News 

https://www.journalism.org/2019/10/02/americans-are-wary-of-the-role-social-media-sites-play-in-delivering-the-news

U.S. Border Agent Harasses Journalist at U.S. Customs—Again
https://www.thedailybeast.com/us-border-agent-harasses-journalist-at-us-customsagain?via=rss

Charlottesville man sues newspaper for reporting on family’s slave-owning past 

https://nypost.com/2019/09/26/charlottesville-man-sues-newspaper-for-reporting-on-familys-slave-owning-past/

Press groups urge SCOTUS to provide live audio of oral arguments in six upcoming cases 

https://www.rcfp.org/scotus-live-audio-letter/

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM 

This company opens up the black box of what print newspaper subscribers are actually reading 

https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/09/this-company-opens-up-the-black-box-of-what-print-newspaper-subscribers-are-actually-reading/

The Books and Movies That Made Us Better Journalists 
https://www.propublica.org/article/ask-propublica-illinois-recommended-journalism-books-movies

Starbucks Offers Customers Free Digital Access To Newspapers, Special Subscription Offers 

https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/341612/starbucks-offers-customers-free-digital-access-to.html

Supermarkets are ditching their newspaper and magazine racks (and publishers aren’t happy) 

https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/10/supermarkets-are-ditching-their-newspaper-and-magazine-racks-and-publishers-arent-happy/

More U.S. journalists are being named as collaboration managers; here’s a peek at their job descriptions 

https://medium.com/centerforcooperativemedia/more-u-s-journalists-are-being-named-as-collaboration-managers-heres-a-peek-at-their-job-5fc6a4f04658

***STUDENT MEDIA

After 110 years in print, University of Maryland student newspaper will become online only  

https://dbknews.com/2019/09/30/diamondback-ending-print-edition-online-only-digital-media/

***SOCIAL MEDIA 

People Are Typing on Their Smartphones Almost as Fast as on Keyboards Now 

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwpb5/people-are-typing-on-their-smartphones-almost-as-fast-as-on-keyboards-now

TikTok’s Ban on Political Ads

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/03/tiktok-explains-its-ban-on-political-advertising/

China Masters Political Propaganda for the Instagram Age 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/05/technology/china-propaganda-patriotism.html

***LANGUAGE

USC student wants ASL to fulfill foreign language requirement  

https://dailytrojan.com/2019/09/24/american-sign-language-should-fulfill-foreign-language-requirement/

Language Evolves and that’s okay (O.K.?) 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/in-english-things-havent-always-been-okay-or-even-ok/2019/09/27/cc32a396-de20-11e9-be96-6adb81821e90_story.html

The polarisation of politics has led to a new lexicon of insults 

https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2019/10/03/the-polarisation-of-politics-has-led-to-a-new-lexicon-of-insults

African languages are fastest growing in the United States 

https://qz.com/africa/1723269/african-languages-are-fastest-growing-in-the-united-states/

What Language Am I Speaking? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgWPWEs63DA

***LITERATURE

She was shot dead by the Nazis in 1942. Her secret diary is to be published after 70 years in a bank vault 

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/12/europe/polish-anne-frank-published-intl-scli/index.html

Understanding the importance of language among Latinx consumers 

https://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/video/2019/nielsen-tv-understanding-the-importance-of-language-among-latinx-consumers/

MacTrump’ turns Donald Trump’s first two years as president into a Shakespearean satire 

https://www.oregonlive.com/books/2019/10/mactrump-turns-donald-trumps-first-two-years-as-president-into-a-shakespearean-satire.html

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA   

New York Magazine to Merge With Vox Media 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/new-york-magazine-merge-vox-media-1243163

One-in-five Americans now listen to audiobooks 

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/09/25/one-in-five-americans-now-listen-to-audiobooks/

***PRODUCING MEDIA

Wedding Photographer Compares Photos Taken With A DSLR To The iPhone 11 Pro 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=315&v=-2OqqrtKS-E

Articles of Interest about Literature, Journalism, Writing & Languages – Sept 25

***JOURNALISM

FBI arrests Army soldier who allegedly discussed plans to bomb major American news network

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-arrests-army-soldier-allegedly-discussed-plans-bomb/story

Remembering Cokie Roberts, Who Forged A Path For Female Journalists 

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/18/761831584/remembering-cokie-roberts-who-forged-a-path-for-female-journalists

Growing hostility’ between student media and administrators – Investigative Reporting Workshop
https://investigativereportingworkshop.org/news/growing-hostility-between-student-media-and-administrators/

Nonprofit news outlets aren’t relying as heavily on foundations — but journalism philanthropy continues to grow

https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/09/nonprofit-news-outlets-arent-relying-as-heavily-on-foundations-but-journalism-philanthropy-continues-to-grow/

Someone Is Doxing Hong Kong Protesters And Journalists — And China Wants Them To Keep Going 

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosalindadams/hong-kong-doxing-protesters-china-encourage

***FAKE NEWS

Google has released a giant database of deepfakes to help fight deepfakes
https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614426/google-has-released-a-giant-database-of-deepfakes-to-help-fight-deepfakes/

Anti-vax movement targets Maine law on vaccine exemptions

https://www.axios.com/anti-vaccine-movement-targets-maine-ffdffe55-adaf-4aa4-b700-6e61f3b6117e.html

***GRAMMAR

Pope Francis criticises overuse of adjectives  

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/24/pope-francis-criticises-overuse-of-adjectives

A grammar nerd gently dismantles those arguments for rejecting the new ‘they’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/a-grammar-nerd-gently-dismantles-your-arguments-for-rejecting-the-new-they/2019/09/20/95f87260-da56-11e9-a688-303693fb4b0b_story.html

Does Influencer Grammar Matter?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/style/influencer-grammar-watchdog-accounts-southeast-asia.html

***WRITING & READING

Physical books still outsell e-books — and here's why

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/19/physical-books-still-outsell-e-books-and-heres-why.html

1,000-page sentence is hard work all around

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/reading-ducks-newburyport-is-mentally-taxing--and-physically-exhausting/2019/09/10/6d34146c-d405-11e9-9610-fb56c5522e1c_story.html

It's Banned Books Week. Here are the 11 most challenged books last year 

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/22/us/banned-books-week-2019-trnd/index.html

***LANGUAGE

Why Your Mom Uses Emojis All Wrong 🙃

https://www.motherjones.com/media/2019/09/gretchen-mcculloch-because-internet/

Study shows facial features track with intonation of words

https://phys.org/news/2019-09-facial-features-track-intonation-words.html

***LITERATURE

When Milton met Shakespeare: poet's notes on Bard appear to have been found  

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/16/when-milton-met-shakespeare-poets-notes-on-bard-appear-to-have-been-found

***POETRY

A vending machine that pops out poems! Positively precious  

http://bit.ly/2lWy58S

One of Elizabeth Warren's strategists is longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry

https://lithub.com/one-of-elizabeth-warrens-strategists-is-longlisted-for-the-national-book-award-in-poetry/

Teaching poetry at a correctional facility through the lens of parenting a teen son

www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2019/09/20/teaching-poetry-correctional-facility-through-lens-parenting-son/

Poem: Small Kindnesses

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/magazine/poem-small-kindnesses.html

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA 

Broadcast Radio Under Threat from Perfect Storm of New Tech

https://www.futuresource-consulting.com/press-release/media-entertainment-press/broadcast-radio-under-threat-from-perfect-storm-of-new-tech/

FCC loses in court, judges say agency would fail “intro statistics class”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/fcc-ignored-women-and-minorities-in-plan-to-allow-media-mergers-court-rules/

***SOCIAL MEDIA: TIKTOK

How TikTok Holds Our Attention

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/30/how-tiktok-holds-our-attention

Revealed: how TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-how-tiktok-censors-videos-that-do-not-please-beijing

The Complete Beginner’s Guide to TikTok  
https://medium.com/@mattprd/how-tiktok-is-changing-the-world-and-youre-missing-it-fa283338649a

***PRIVACY & SECURITY

People Are Looking At Your LinkedIn Profile. They Might Be Chinese Spies

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/19/761962531/people-are-looking-at-your-linkedin-profile-they-might-be-chinese-spies

Brain Privacy

https://www.axios.com/brain-privacy-neuralink-brain-computer-interface-6ba7269e-1553-4395-a6db-3560fead7e24.html

Articles of Interest about Literature, Journalism, Writing & Languages - Sept 18

***JOURNALISM

Who pays for local news in the U.S.?

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/09/12/who-pays-for-local-news-in-the-u-s/

Online news in the U.S.: Key facts

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/09/11/key-findings-about-the-online-news-landscape-in-america/

A Diversity Bully at the Society of Professional Journalists Convention (opinion)  

https://journoterrorist.com/2019/09/16/diversity-bully/

CNN Beats Journalist's Copyright Suit Over Gilda Radner Documentary https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/cnn-beats-journalists-copyright-suit-gilda-radner-documentary-1240286

***JOURNALISM & GOOGLE

Google Says a Change in Its Algorithm Will Highlight ‘Original Reporting’

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/business/media/google-algorithm-original-reporting.html

New Google rules aim to boost original reporting in search results

https://www.axios.com/google-news-algorithm-original-reporting-search-results-publishers-7a0314ed-1132-4535-a158-eac1aa8f008d.html

***STUDENT MEDIA

Here’s why writing on a college paper is so much harder than you think 

http://cuchimes.com/09/2019/college-paper-struggles/

We Must Save Independent Student Newsrooms

https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2019/09/11/colleges-should-support-independent-perspective-student-newspapers-offer-opinion

First-year on importance of college newspaper, journalism

www.the-college-reporter.com/2019/09/16/first-year-on-importance-of-college-newspaper-journalism/

***FAKE NEWS

I create fake videos. Here’s why people believe even the obvious ones

https://www.fastcompany.com/90404007/i-create-fake-videos-heres-why-people-believe-even-the-obvious-ones

A Historical Look At Vaccine Skepticism

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/09/13/a-historical-look-at-vaccine-skepticism/

Online Dating in a World of Deepfakes

https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/online-dating-in-a-world-of-deepfakes/

***SOCIAL MEDIA

TikTok's Beijing roots fuel censorship suspicion as it builds a huge US Audience

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/15/tiktoks-beijing-roots-fuel-censorship-suspicion-it-builds-huge-us-audience/

The machine always wins: what drives our addiction to social media 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2019/sep/16/the-machine-always-wins-what-drives-our-addiction-to-social-media-podcast

A new class of apps can use machine intelligence to determine if your text conversations are imbued with hidden romantic sparks 

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-apps-texting-flirting-romance/ 

***INSTAGRAM

I Faked My Way as an Instagram Poet, and It Went Bizarrely 

Well https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/zmjmj3/instagram-poetry-become-successful-scam

I Was Caroline Calloway: Seven years after I met the infamous Instagram star, I’m ready to tell my side of the story

https://www.thecut.com/2019/09/the-story-of-caroline-calloway-and-her-ghostwriter-natalie.html

How To Be Authentic About Faking Your Instagram Photos 

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tanyachen/how-to-be-authentic-about-faking-your-instagram-photos

***WRITING & READING 

13 Glaring Grammar Mistakes in the U.S. Constitution

https://www.rd.com/culture/mistakes-in-constitution/

The Best Apps to Conquer Your 'Read Later' List

https://lifehacker.com/the-best-tools-for-conquering-your-massive-read-later-l-1838097178

***LANGUAGE

New Words That You Should Add To Your Vocabulary

https://www.sadanduseless.com/exceptional-words-dictionary/#more-77418

The Life Changing Linguistics of… Nigerian Scam Emails 
https://daily.jstor.org/the-life-changing-linguistics-of-nigerian-scam-emails/

Merriam Webster adds more than 530 new words and phrases to its dictionary

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/new-words-in-the-dictionary

***LITERATURE

How Latinx Literature Gave Me A Sense Of Place

https://www.bustle.com/p/how-latinx-literature-gave-me-a-sense-of-place-18737659

Literature spawns professor's love for science 

https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/news/local/2019/09/16/dooley-found-literature-spawns-love-science/2055457001/

How a Dying Man Wrote a Timeless Novel - The New York

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/books/review/lampedusa-steven-price.html

Articles of Interest about Lit, Journalism, Writing & Languages - Sept 10

***SOCIAL MEDIA

The phone numbers of 419 million Facebook accounts have been leaked 

https://www.fastcompany.com/90399734/the-phone-numbers-of-419-million-facebook-accounts-have-been-leaked

Facebook Dating has launched in the United States 

https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/5/20850307/facebook-dating-united-states-launch

Is TikTok a time bomb?

https://www.fastcompany.com/90395898/is-tiktok-a-time-bomb

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

Local newspapers are suffering, but they’re still (by far) the most significant journalism producers in their communities

https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/09/local-newspapers-are-suffering-but-theyre-still-by-far-the-most-significant-journalism-producers-in-their-communities 

ThinkProgress, the Progressive News Site, Shuts Down

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/business/media/thinkprogress-closing.html

One America News Sues Rachel Maddow, NBC Over "Russian Propaganda" Claim

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/one-america-news-sues-rachel-maddow-nbc-russian-propaganda-claim-1238400 

How an MSNBC Producer Gets Dressed for Work

https://www.thecut.com/2019/09/in-her-shoes-interview-daniela-pierre-bravo.html

***JOURNALISM

EIJ convention’s brand-new Code of Conduct (opinion)

https://journoterrorist.com/2019/09/03/conduct/

News Anchor Files $10M Lawsuit After Sexualized Image of Her Was Used in Dating, Erectile Dysfunction Ads

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/news-anchor-files-10m-lawsuit-after-sexualized-image-of-her-was-used-in-dating-erectile-dysfunction-ads/ 

Why NPR uses the word Queer

https://www.imediaethics.org/why-npr-uses-the-word-queer/

A School for Scandal Is a Haven for Student Journalists

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/08/business/media/university-of-southern-california-student-journalists.html

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA  

Texas Monthly names first ever taco editor 

https://www.austin360.com/entertainmentlife/20190910/texas-monthly-names-first-ever-taco-editor

Guide to Native Advertising

https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/native-ads.php

NBC local TV group will no longer use ratings to sell ads

https://www.axios.com/nbc-local-tv-ratings-points-advertisements-7146027d-b805-4d01-9696-3e7184a321b7.html

***WRITING & READING

For Many Authors, Celebrity Book Clubs Are A Ticket To Success  NPR

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/03/755532368/for-many-authors-celebrity-book-clubs-are-a-ticket-to-success

Everything About Banned Books In The US

https://www.dailyinfographic.com/us-banned-books

***LANGUAGE 

A Rare Universal Pattern in Human Languages 

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/09/people-speak-faster-less-efficient-languages/597391/

Historic Recordings Revitalize Language For Passamaquoddy Tribal Members   

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/03/748604202/historic-recordings-revitalize-language-for-passamaquoddy-tribal-members

How do we Measure Language Fluency?

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190903-linguistic-fluency-proficiency-second-language-learning

Emojis Have Unsettled Grammar Rules

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2019/09/emojis-have-unsettled-grammar-rules-and-why-lawyers-should-care.htm

About one-in-five U.S. adults know someone who goes by a gender-neutral pronoun

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/09/05/gender-neutral-pronouns/

Why Learn Latin?: 5 Videos Make a Compelling Case That the “Dead Language” Is an “Eternal Language”

www.openculture.com/2019/09/why-learn-latin.html

***ENGLISH 

The Easiest Languages for English Speakers to Learn

https://www.afar.com/magazine/the-easiest-languages-to-learn-for-english-speakers

Rise up, rebel, revolt: how the English language betrays class and power  

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/06/language-of-division-english-fractured-society

***LITERATURE

Where are all the women in early modern English literature? 

https://news.northeastern.edu/2019/09/06/why-is-jane-austen-the-only-woman-in-early-english-literature-textbooks-blame-the-pride-and-prejudice-of-men/

30 great opening lines in literature

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/30-great-opening-lines-literature/

***POETRY 

Former US poet laureate Rita Dove wins $100,000 prize 

http://www.startribune.com/former-us-poet-laureate-rita-dove-wins-100-000-prize/559458562/

Poetic Underground: Group therapy through poetry 

https://info.umkc.edu/unews/poetic-underground-group-therapy-through-poetry/

Martín Espada, Poet for the People 

https://www.wortfm.org/martin-espada-poet-for-the-people/

A murderer wrote poetry for biker magazines. It could be key to solving a 47-year-old cold case

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/a-murderer-wrote-poetry-for-biker-magazines-it-could-be-key-to-solving-a-47-year-old-cold-case

***FILM 

Overlooked No More: Alice Guy Blaché, the World’s First Female Filmmaker

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/obituaries/alice-guy-blache-overlooked.html

***INTERNET

Why survey estimates of the number of Americans online don’t always agree

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/09/03/why-survey-estimates-of-the-number-of-americans-online-dont-always-agree/

Articles of Interest about Lit, Journalism, Writing & Languages - Sept 3

***GRAMMAR

Trump’s Twitter War on Spelling  New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/31/us/politics/trump-twitter.html

AP Stylebook Changes Hyphen Guidance, Ushering In Total Chaos  The Big Lead

https://thebiglead.com/2019/08/28/ap-stylebook-hyphen-change-guidance

In Love With Language, but Not Necessarily With Each Other  New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/books/review/the-grammarians-cathleen-schine.html

***WRITING & READING 

What Critics of Student Writing Get Wrong  Chronicle of Higher Ed

https://www.chronicle.com/article/What-Critics-of-Student/247054

How I’m using AI to write my next novel  Vox

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/8/30/20840194/ai-art-fiction-writing-language-gpt-2

Cracking the code of dyslexia  CBS News

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cracking-the-code-of-dyslexia/

***JOURNALISM

How Colombia’s Datasketch wants to make data visualization easier for Latin American newsrooms

www.storybench.org/how-colombias-datasketch-wants-to-make-data-visualization-easier-for-latin-american-newsrooms/

At Least 11 Journalists Killed This Year In Mexico  NPR

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/31/756200213/at-least-11-journalists-killed-this-year-in-mexico

You might make a good producer if...  RTDNA

https://rtdna.org/article/you_might_make_a_good_producer_if

Why Teens Are Creating Their Own News Outlets  Teen Vogue

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/teens-creating-own-news-outlets-instagram-text-message

The New York Times use of FOIAs  New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/02/reader-center/foia-freedom-of-information-public-records.html

***JOURNALISM STUDENTS

Hey, future journalists: 50 pieces of advice for making your college years count  RTDNA https://rtdna.org/article/hey_future_journalists_50_pieces_of_advice_for_making_your_college_years_count

Ability to adapt has become more important than ever for journalism interns  Community Newspapers https://communitynewspapers.com/featured/ability-to-adapt-has-become-more-important-than-ever-for-journalism-interns /

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

Obituaries keep local newspapers afloat

https://www.axios.com/obituaries-local-newspapers-77ddfa04-b54e-46ee-9fb7-a2aa641559fb.html

***FAKE NEWS

These “Canadian” Websites And Facebook Pages Are Actually Run From Overseas

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/canadian-websites-and-facebook-pages-run-overseas

Frank Abagnale of Catch Me If You Can on how not to get scammed  Vox

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/8/29/20836745/frank-abagnale-scam-me-if-you-can

Inside the deeply weird fake seed scams that are all over Amazon Mashable

https://mashable.com/article/fake-seed-scam-amazon-ebay/

Hijacked Reviews on Amazon Can Trick Shoppers Consumer Reports

https://www.consumerreports.org/customer-reviews-ratings/hijacked-reviews-on-amazon-can-trick-shoppers/

These deepfakes of Bill Hader are absolutely terrifying  CNET

https://www.cnet.com/news/these-deepfakes-of-bill-hader-are-absolutely-terrifying/

***SOCIAL MEDIA

Researchers studying Facebook's impact on democracy threaten to quit  Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-election-research/researchers-studying-facebooks-impact-on-democracy-threaten-to-quit-idUSKCN1VI04F

Here’s how to filter and delete your old tweets — and why that’s an OK thing to do  Poynter

https://www.poynter.org/tech-tools/2019/heres-how-to-filter-and-delete-your-old-tweets-and-why-thats-an-ok-thing-to-do /

What drives our addiction to social media  The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/23/social-media-addiction-gambling

***LANGUAGE 

A new book spells out the magic of language  Economist

https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2019/08/22/a-new-book-spells-out-the-magic-of-language

What’s the best way to teach children a second language? New research produces surprising results The Conversation

https://theconversation.com/whats-the-best-way-to-teach-children-a-second-language-new-research-produces-surprising-results-122059

***LITERATURE 

Artificial Intelligence doing Wonders in the Field of Literature  Analytics Insight

https://www.analyticsinsight.net/artificial-intelligence-doing-wonders-in-the-field-of-literature/

Emojis Are Language Too: A Linguist Says Internet-Speak Isn’t Such a Bad Thing  New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/16/books/review/because-internet-gretchen-mcculloch.html

7 Best Places for Literature Lovers in Paris  Newsweek

https://www.newsweek.com/7-best-places-literature-lovers-paris-1456124

***POETRY

Waffle House has an official poet laureate: For real  Atlanta Magazine

https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/waffle-house-has-an-official-poet-laureate-for-real /

In the first trailer for Apple TV Plus’ Dickinson, the famous poet gets turnt  The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/26/20833766/apple-tv-plus-emily-dickinson-series-trailer-first-look-hailee-steinfeld

This Indianapolis nurse quit her job to become a poet. Now people hire her to write poems  Indy Star

https://www.indystar.com/story/entertainment/arts/2019/08/30/indianapolis-woman-leaves-nursing-pursue-poetry-full-time-feel-heal-poetry/1930922001 /

Do You Actually Know The Difference Between Taylor Swift And History's Greatest Poets?  BuzzFeed  

https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephenlaconte/taylor-swift-lyrics-famous-poets-quiz

Butchering poetry: Verse vs. worse  Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/gene-weingarten-who-is-the-better-poet-gene-and-his-editor-face-off/2019/08/30/0d909a14-b9d7-11e9-bad6-609f75bfd97f_story.html