articles of interest - Dec 12
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Instagram Launches Live Video Life Hacker
Facebook is working on a new feature that will showcase lists of curated content from publishers directly in the News Feed Business Insider
Users Aren't Enough: Why Yik Yak Is The Latest Casualty Of A Changing Market Fast Company
College students explain why Yik Yak dropped off on campus USA Today
Facebook Backs 360-Degree Live Streams Media Post
***BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Native ads are still very confusing to many readers Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Quartz Global Executives Study: The Media Habits of the World’s Busiest People Quartz
***INTERNET
New Wayback Machine – Beta Chronicle of Higher Ed
Pick out live radio streams from an image of a globe Boing Boing
***JOURNALISM
The year of augmented writing Harvard’s Nieman Lab
When Did the Media Become a “Watchdog?” Daily Jstor
***FAKE NEWS
Weather Channel to Breitbart: Stop using us to mislead public on climate change CBS News
Most Americans Who See Fake News Believe It, New Survey SaysBuzzFeed News
A BuzzFeed News Poll found that 75% of American adults who were familiar with a fake news headline viewed the story as accurate BuzzFeed News
Why The Fake News Debate Gets It Wrong Forbes
The Cynical Gambit to Make ‘Fake News’ Meaningless The Atlantic
Washington Post fake news story blurs the definition of fake news Columbia Journalism Review
6 Tips for Identifying Fake News Scientific American
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
The NYT to unveil enhanced, redesigned Arts section Friday, new digital features and services Talking New Media
Breaking News is shutting down Poynter
***SCIENCE
Editorial: “Is science in big trouble?” Elsevier
***HEALTH
U.S. Dementia Rates Are Dropping Even as Population Ages New York Times
***PSYCHOLOGY
When A Psychologist Succumbed To Stress, He Coined The Term 'Burnout' NPR
The Science of Why We Laugh Open Culture
***PHILOSOPHY
Ryan Holiday Sells Stoicism as a Life Hack, Without Apology New York Times
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Closing Doors that seem like opportunities Becoming (my blog)
Self-Control Is Just Empathy With Your Future Self The Atlantic
The Story of Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About the Way We Think (a new book by From Michael Lewis) New York Times
New Study: Pessimism May Be Bad for Your Heart UPI
***WRITING& READING
A letter to my writing students on why they have more freedom to create than they seem to think Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LANGUAGE
‘Fascism’ could be the word of the year, Merriam-Webster says Boston Globe
***LITERATURE
Bibliomania, the Dark Desire For Books That Infected Europe in the 1800s Atlas Obsura
A Beginner’s Guide To Icelandic Literature The Reykjavik GrapeVine
***GENDER ISSUES
Author discusses new book about how arrival of women in American higher education changed colleges’ sense of moral mission Inside Higher Ed
New Research: Sexist men have psychological problems Washington Post
U.S. transgender people harassed in public restrooms: landmark survey Reuters
***FREE SPEECH
Restrictive Campus Speech Policies See Record Decline The Fire
Public University Threatens Student with Expulsion for Anti-Lynching Protest The FIRE
A review of newspaper theft and vandalism at colleges across the country SPLC
***LEGAL ISSUES
Ex-coach Art Briles sues Baylor officials for libel, conspiracy ESPN
What Legal Recourse Do Victims Of Fake News Stories Have? NPR
Yes, You Can Post That Negative Online Review, Says Congress NBC News
Songwriters Accuse Radio Stations of 'Illegal Cartel' NBC News
Shirley Caesar Sues DJ Suede Over Unauthorized #UNameItChallenge Song HipHopDX
***BIG DATA
Spelling out the ABCs of Bayesian statistics in layperson’s terms RW Connect
17 Microsoft Researchers: Past the past the Tay chatbot to what's ahead in AI Fortune
You’re not getting value from your Data Science -here’s why Harvard Business Review
***ART & DESIGN
How Pablo Picasso And Diego Rivera Influenced Each Other NPR
How Big Data is set to change the art market: Sophisticated data tools aim to improve knowledge and boost confidence The Art Newspaper
How To Understand a Picasso Painting: A Video Primer Open Culture
***RELIGION
Evangelicals propose truce over LGBTQ rights in hopes of ‘Fairness for All’ LGBTQ Nation
Fairness for All: Evangelicals Explore Truce on LGBT and Religious Rights: It worked in Utah, But national effort by the CCCU and NAE will be more complicated Christianity Today
Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council Bridges Religious Lines To Fight Discrimination NPR
The Book of Mormon touted as fourth most influential work in American literature Salt Lake Tribune
Evangelical preacher ruins Christmas by telling dozens of kids waiting to see Santa that he is not real The Daily Mirror
***MUSIC
Jazz Recordings With a Sense of History and Discovery New York Times
Patti Smith Sings Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rains Gonna Fall” at Nobel Prize Ceremony & Gets a Case of the Nerves Open Culture
The Genius of Paul McCartney’s Bass Playing in 7 Isolated Tracks Open Culture
When It Comes To CDs In 2016, Mozart Outsells Beyonce, Adele And Drake NPR
***STUDENT MEDIA
A College Newspaper Takes the Right Stand Bloomberg
Should You Enroll in Adulting School? NY Mag
Illinois accused of billing scheme at University radio station Chicago Tribune
***STUDENT LIFE
Immigrant students share what college means to them, and their fears as they wait for Donald J. Trump and his administration to take office Chronicle of Higher Ed
Recreational marijuana legal in your state? Not on campus USA Today
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Helping Professors Find Time to Think: The mission of faculty development has begun to broaden beyond the traditional focus on teaching Chronicle of Higher Ed
Montana State University professor fights firing Bozeman Daily
On-campus cybersecurity sometimes impedes academic freedom Business Insider
***HIGHER ED
Baylor and U. of Louisville Get Heat From Accreditor Chronicle of Higher Ed
NCAA Rules Ex-Official at Cal State-Northridge Committed Academic Misconduct Chronicle of Higher Ed
Building a Network to Help First-Generation Students Succeed Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why Universities Need Scholarly-Communications Experts (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Some colleges are refusing to call themselves 'sanctuary' campuses because states could cut their funding Business Insider
Mike Pence's Voucher Program in Indiana Was a Windfall for Religious Schools Mother Jones
***TEACHING
Why I Don’t Edit Their Rough Drafts Chronicle of Higher Ed
How Can Students Be Taught to Detect Fake News and Dubious Claims? (sub. req.’ed) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***RESEARCH
Reproducibility Crisis Timeline: Milestones in Tackling Research Reliability PLOS
Dear plagiarist’: A scientist calls out his double-crosser Stat News
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
A Sex-Assault Case Pits Privacy Against Transparency Chronicle of Higher Ed
Former Students Say Stanford Tried To Buy Its Way Out Of Title IX Investigations BuzzFeed News
Stanford releases a "questions and answers" article to refute various reports about the institution's handling of sexual-assault cases Stanford Press Release
A Sexual Assault Survivor Chronicle of Higher Ed