Articles of Interest - Feb 15
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Art in the Age of Big Data (Have technologies like Instagram and Pinterest made an artist out of all of us?) The Guardian
Dear Mr. Know-It-All: Should You Delete Someone’s Facebook Account After They Die? Wired
Twitter's returned boss has yet to turn it around The Economist
How to Build a Twitter Following (and Why You Should a primer on tweeting for those who have never used the site or have underused it) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***SCIENCE
Reproducibility should be at science’s heart. It isn’t. But that may soon change The Economist
What the discovery of gravitational waves means The Atlantic
***TECHNOLOGY
Flash is dead, time to inform some publishers still dependent on it for their digital editions Talking New Media
***BUSINESS
Most HR Data Is Bad Data (Managers are terrible at rating people's performance) Harvard Business Review
***PSYCHOLOGY
Why people cheat (when people win against others, they tend to think they're better, or more deserving) Washington Post
How People Learn to Become Resilient The New Yorker
The Confidence Game: The Psychology of the Con and Why We Fall for It Every Time Economist
Exposed to a deluge of digital photos, we’re feeling the psychological effects of image overload The Conversation
***NEUROSCIENCE
New Clues to the Mystery of How Our Brains Keep Time Wired
***PHILOSOPHY
Philosopher of the month: Plato OUP Blog
***LANGUAGE
How Trump's use of words may be tied to his success Nerdwriter YouTube video
Fool ‘Ish’ Ways: a suffix that is taking on a life of its own Chronicle of Higher Ed
***JOURNALISM
The thorny ethics of embedding with do-gooders Columbia Journalism Review
Corrupt journalism doesn’t pay. Nor does abetting it Washington Post
How Freelancers Can Create Their Own ‘Snow Fall’ For Free Media Shift
Is John Oliver's Show Journalism? NPR
How the Communist Party creates the world’s most-watched TV news show The Economist
Former student says journalism professor violated his free speech Inside Higher Ed
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Journalism is a stressful career, but work doesn’t have to be miserable Poynter
The Digital Dirt: How TMZ gets the videos and photos that celebrities want to hide New Yorker
***STUDENT JOURNALISM
Protecting Student Journalists in a New-Media Era Chronicle of Higher Ed
Newspaper Adviser Is Fired After Students’ Scoop Roils Maryland Campus New York Times
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Cancer has ushered in new ways of being alive Becoming
***THE INTERNET
How the Humble Index Card Foresaw the Internet Popular Mechanics
***MUSIC & ART
Artists working with technology struggle to stay current The Economist
Music Can’t Last Forever, Not Even on the Internet Wired
Being Bilingual Changes the Architecture of Your Brain Wired
***RESEARCH
Researcher illegally shares millions of science papers free online to spread knowledge Science Alert
***RACE & GENDER ISSUES
The ‘Jane Test,’ a New Way to Tell if Your Scripts AreSexist Wired
Study finds Bias in How Male Students view female STEM students Inside Higher Ed
Women considered better coders – but only if they hide their gender The Guardian
Here's the presentation Google gives employees on how to spot unconscious bias at work Business Insider
***BIG DATA
Ted Cruz is mining supporters' personal data with #analytics--is voter surveillance by app the future of politics? Associated Press
The Most Important Skill in Data Science: Mining and Visualizing your Data Customer Think
Mistakes companies make approaching Big Data (#1-data is somehow opposed to intuition rather than enhancing it) Wall Street Journal
***RELIGION
The leaders of Christianity's 2 biggest churches will meet for the first time in 1,000 years Business Insider
The differences between the Catholic and Orthodox churches The Economist
Church of England defends Richard Dawkins prayer tweet BBC
Why are so many Christians biblically illiterate? Fox News
Concern for Christians in the Middle East helps drive historic meeting between Catholic, Orthodox leaders Pew Research
Death, the Prosperity Gospel and Me NY Times
What the Death of Justice Antonin Scalia Means for Religious Liberty (The staunchly Catholic U.S. Supreme Court justice was known for his acidly conservative opinions, but ultimately, he prioritized the Constitution over the Church) The Atlantic
Almost all U.S. presidents have been Christians Pew Research
Why evangelicals are splintering and what it means for the GOP LA Times
***STUDENT LIFE
Backgrounds and Beliefs of College Freshmen Chronicle of Higher Ed
Have Millennials Made Quitting More Common? Bloomberg
Survey: Nearly 1-in-10 Freshman plan to participate in campus protests Inside Higher Ed
Among Millennials engaged in primaries, Dems more likely to learn about the election from social media Pew Research
***HIGHER ED
Open letter to all students contemplating going to an evangelical college “Don’t let them ruin your life” (opinion) Pathos
Whither Wheaton: an evangelical college ponders its future Religious News Service
***HIGHER ED / MOUNT ST. MARY'S
Mount St. Mary's president says 'I'm not going to stop' Baltimore Sun
Mount St. Mary’s University reinstates fired student newspaper adviser Student Press Law Center
How3 Crisis-Communications Experts Would Have Handled the Uproar at Mount St. Mary’s Chronicle of Higher Ed
What's Up With the Mounts Saint Mary? (dissenting faculty members dismissed and trustees showing up at search committee meetings) Inside Higher Ed
An Appalling Breach of Faith at Mount St. Mary's (Disrespecting students and trampling the rights of faculty members at the Maryland university contradict the mission of Roman Catholic higher education) (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***TEACHING
A Piece of the Learning Puzzle (How the "jigsaw classroom" can help students to see a subject in both piecemeal and broad ways) Chronicle of Higher Ed
2015 Online Report Card - Tracking Online Education in the United States Online Learning Consortium
Reaching Students Who “Don’t Need Writing” Chronicle of Higher Ed
Study: Faculty Development has Demonstrable Impact on Student Learning
Inside Higher Ed
The Self-Obliterating Professor premium (The best teachers create a world where they're no longer needed-subscription) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***HUMANITIES / STEM
Building a Bridge Between Engineering and the Humanities (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed