***SOCIAL MEDIA
The best Social Media Conferences to attend in 2017 HootSuit
Telling Facebook you've changed your phone number – the weird T&Cs you've unwittingly signed up to The Guardian
The Desire to Live-Stream Violence The Atlantic
Using Social Media, Students Aspire To Become 'Influencers' NPR
Vine app will shut down and become Vine Camera on January 17th The Verge
Study: Half of American Internet Users Have Been Harassed or Abused Online MediaShift
So Who's Behind all Those Snarky Tweets from Windy's Washington Post
***CODING & SOFTWARE
This Video Explains How GitHub Works As Simply As Possible Life Hacker
List of companies using the free programming language R ListenData
***TECHNOLOGY
Computers have got much better at translation, voice recognition and speech synthesis But they still don’t understand the meaning of language Economist
The quest to create animals with human organs has a long history – and it is now becoming a reality BBC
How voice technology is transforming computing Economist
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
10 simple rules for effective statistical practice Data Science Central
Willing to try Javascript for Machine Learning? Here are some useful libraries KD Nuggets
Battling the Tyranny of Big Data: When an algorithm tells us what to do but we know it is wrong Bloomberg
The 10 Coolest Big Data Products Of 2016 CRN
A video about how Bayesian inference works Flowing Data
How to create a Best-Fitting regression model? Data Science Central
5 expensive myths about Apache Hadoop News Factor
Machine Learning Algorithms: A Concise Technical Overview LinkedIn
***ART & DESIGN
What UX Designers Can Learn from Psychology Prototyprio
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Hacks, tips and tricks for mobile journalists Journalism.co.uk
How to Go Live: Facebook Live Streaming for News Publishers Video Strategist
***JOURNALISM
The Debate Over Whether Journalists Should Call Donald Trump’s False Statements ‘Lies’ Is a Red Herring New York Mag
Lies, Journalism and Objectivity New York Times
As Journalism Becomes Even More Dangerous, Newsrooms Must Address Psychological Trauma PBS MediaShift
Does nonpartisan journalism have a future? (opinion) The Conversation
Why Meryl Streep wants you to support the Committee to Protect Journalists Daily Dot
Washington Post to Create Rapid Response Investigative Team Washington Post
***FAKE NEWS
Fake news? That’s a very old story Washington Post
Higher ed takes on fake news epidemic Education Dive
Hoaxy Visualizes the Spread of Online News (Hoaxy is a new tool created as an antidote to the spread of fake news) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Can the news be saved?: 2017’s emerging media outlets face just as many challenges as old media Salon
Why did the Los Angeles Times take so long to run an investigation? (there are questions also about its editorial decision-making) The Guardian
Tronc If You Want to Save Journalism Bloomberg
Medium lays off a third of its staff as it searches for a new business model The Verge
Why Medium Failed to Disrupt the MediaBloomberg
'The underbelly of the internet': How content ad networks fund fake news Digiday
***STUDENT MEDIA
Report: US College Newspapers Assailed for Negative Stories Voice of America
A college newspaper takes the right stand Delaware Online
These Local Freshmen Saved Their College Newspaper from Going Out of Print Honolulu Mag
***PERSONAL GROWTH
to be creative Becoming (my site)
Why Focusing on Yourself Helps You Get Over Someone Else Life Hacker
***GRAMMAR
Which is preferable, "If only it were," or "if only it was"? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***WRITING& READING
Portrait of the Artist as a Case Study Chronicle of Higher Ed
Trump pick Monica Crowley plagiarized multiple sources in 2012 book CNN
***LANGUAGE
Survey looks at foreign language programs' response to decade-old call to transform teaching Inside Higher Ed
2016’s grim words of the year Economist
***LITERATURE
Danger ahead: Collapse of Southern literature? Charlotte Observer
Author Discusses his new book on the State of the Classics Inside Higher Ed
How China uses Shakespeare to promote its own bard Economist
***GENDER ISSUES
'National Geographic' Tackles Changing Gender Norms Worldwide NPR
The Benefits of Gender Balance in a System’s Presidential Offices Chronicle of Higher Ed
***RACIAL ISSUES
Can We Really Measure Implicit Bias? Maybe Not Chronicle of Higher Ed
***SCIENCE
Using evolutionary dynamics and game theory to understand personal relations MIT News
***HEALTH
Japanese white-collar workers are already being replaced by artificial intelligence in Medical Insurance Co. Quartz
Today’s new drugs come through the pipeline no faster than 20 years ago, report finds Stat News
Diagnosing illness by smell: A prototype device to detect the scent of disease Economist
Obama vs. Trump: 5 ways they clash — or don’t — on health and science Stat News
The AI effort to crack biology, accelerate drug discovery, & upend clinical care Economist
Can data analytics aid in end-of-life care decisions? Managed Health Care
Lies, Damned Lies, and P Values: the number of "positive" but wrong medical studies may be higher than you think MedPage Today
***FREE SPEECH
Anger at a cop killer, a plea for clemency, and a fight over free expression at American U Washington Post
U.S. Supreme Court will not examine tech industry legal shield Reuters
A Lawyer Rewrote Instagrams Terms of Use in "Plain English" so kids would know their Privacy Rights Denver Post
***LEGAL ISSUES
'Star Trek' Fan Film Dispute Goes to Jury Trial in Big Ruling Hollywood Reporter
What law firms and law departments should know about Machine Learning algorithms Inside Counsel
***PSYCHOLOGY
Mariah Carey Feeds the Schadenfreude Cycle The Atlantic
What happens when narcissists become parents Washington Post
There’s a Problem With a Bunch of Psychology Textbooks New York Magazine
A Unified Theory of Mental Illness: How Everything from Addiction to Depression Can Be Explained by the Concept of “Capture” in Psychology Open Culture
***PHILOSOPHY
Why We Need to Teach Kids Philosophy & Safeguard Society from Authoritarian Control in Education, Philosophy, Politics Open Culture
***ETHICS
'Facebook Live' torture video raises ethical questions for social media giant CNN
***RELIGION
A Memoir Of Taking Christianity 'To The Extreme' NPR
The Curious Case of Christians and Alcohol (opinion) HeartSupport
Carrie Underwood faces backlash after performance at evangelical event Rolling Stone
Marvin Gorman, Assembly of God televangelist brought down by Jimmy Swaggart, dies at 83 NOLA
How Martin Luther has shaped Germany for half a millennium: The 500th anniversary of the 95 theses finds a country as moralistic as ever The Economist
The future of evangelicalism in America Religious News Service
***RELIGION & POLITICS
The New Congress Is 91% Christian. That’s Barely Budged Since 1961 New York Times
Faith on the Hill: The religious composition of the 115th Congress Pew Research Center
Evangelicals should be deeply troubled by Donald Trump’s attempt to mainstream heresy (opinion) Washington Post
***HIGHER ED
Average College Degree Pays off by age 34 CNN
When Colleges Rely on Adjuncts, Where Does the Money Go? Inside Higher Ed
Claudio Sanchez Predictions For What Will Happen In Education In 2017 NPR
***ONLINE CLASSES
280 Free MOOCs Getting Started in January Open Culture
Trainwreck: The Teach to One Math Experiment in Mountain View, CA Is a Cautionary Tale About the Perils of Digital Math Education Open Culture
***HUMANITIES /STEM
Why STEM Majors Need the Humanities Chronicle of Higher Ed
***TEACHING
What Technology Addiction Means for Educators MyStudent Voice
We Know What Works in Teaching Composition Chronicle of Higher Ed
How Can We Minimize Grade Challenges? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Claiming Your Right to Say No to Writing a Letter of Recommendation Chronicle of Higher Ed
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
In Letter to College Presidents, Biden Urges Continued Fight Against Sexual Assault Chronicle of Higher Ed
How Publicity Might Sway Reporting of Campus Sexual Assaults Chronicle of Higher Ed
Few Colleges Use Controversial Sexual Misconduct policy adopted by Stanford Inside Higher Ed
