Articles of Interest - May 9
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook loses round one in privacy fight over photo tagging feature Reuters
All The Amazing Things You Could Do If You Quit Facebook Vocativ
Facebook, Twitter play different roles in connecting mobile readers to news Pew Research
Periscope Now Saves Broadcasts—And Streams From Your Drone Wired
Facebook says censoring conservative news isn't part of the program Daily Dot
***SCIENCE
Scientific Studies (video-how and why media outlets so often report untrue or incomplete information as science) John Oliver
***BIG DATA
Researchers across the academic spectrum are diving into neural networks ("That’s going to produce weird effects.") Mapping Babel
For your #DataScience workflow: Top 10 #DeepLearning Projects on Github KD Nuggets
Twitter bars intelligence agencies from using #analytics service Dataminr (subscription) Wall Street Journal
Bayesian Networks and #Bayesian Classifier Software KD Nuggets
Are fears overblown about patient privacy in the era of big data analytics and precision medicine? Health IT Analytics
***RACE
Why White People Don’t Use White Emoji The Atlantic
***WRITING& READING
7 Tips for Reading More Books in a Year Open Culture
***LANGUAGE
Why Do You Hate The Word Moist? Science Gizmodo
***LITERATURE
Joyce Carol Oates: New Media Is Creating a Nightmare America Wired
Charles Dickens and the Linguistic Art of the Minor Character Jstor
***RESEARCH
Game Theory and scientific plagiarism National Research University Higher School of Economic
***FREE SPEECH
Why the controversy over an Iowa cartoonist is no laughing matter Columbia Journalism Review
Free Speech, 'The Antioch Review' and an Antitransgender Article Inside Higher Ed
***LEGAL ISSUES
Proposed revision of ABA model ethics rule to ban broad range of discrimination sparks controversy American Bar Association
***RELIGION
5 facts about prayer Pew Research
‘There’s nobody left’: Evangelicals feel abandoned by GOP after Trump’s ascent Washington Post
***PERSONAL GROWTH
It's all about the long term (Jeff Bezos on planning) Becoming (my blog)
***JOURNALISM
Investigative journalism is no longer about clandestine meetings The Guardian
The Golden Age of Reading the NewsSmall screens don't deter readers—even from longer articles The Atlantic
How The Secret Service Is Trying To Handcuff The Press The Daily Beast
Donald Trump, Nate Silver, and the Value of Data Journalism (opinion) The New Yorker
San Diego Journalism group seeks release of license-plate data Union Tribune
Wyoming Community College Closing Troubled Journalism Program Inside Higher Ed
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
It’s a Better Time to Make Movies About Newspapers Than to Work at One Washingtonian
Tribune Publishing formally rejects Gannett offer Talking New Media
Union-Tribune owner’s war of escalating insults0Yet another spin-off rumored if Gannett prevails San Diego Reader
***STUDENT LIFE
Spending an afternoon at the gym might yield positive results in the library Inside Higher Ed
Good outcomes for Community College Transfers Inside Higher Ed
***JOBS
2016 Should Be A Good Year For New Graduates To Launch A Career NPR
A résumé expert reveals what a perfect résumé looks like (video) Business Insider
***HUMANITIES /STEM
Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities Inside Higher Ed
***HIGHER ED
Counting transfer and part-time students in graduation rates Inside Higher Ed
Oral Roberts University Case Another Threat to Religious Schools The New American
U.S. Says Bathroom Law Violates Title IX because it bars public colleges and other state agencies from letting transgender people use the bathrooms Inside Higher Ed
***TEACHING
Professor Pranksman fools his students with a TA powered by IBM's Watson The Verge
10 Tools for More Interactive teaching Videos Campus Technology
***ACADEMIC LIFE
The Academics Who Are Treated as "Less Than Janitors" Gawker
***CAMPUS CRIME
University Criticism for delayed campus-crime alert of Possible Hate Crime Chronicle of Higher Ed
Reported Campus Sexual Assaults Have Risen Sharply as Overall Crime Has Fallen Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT MEDIA
As yearbooks die, colleges lose a link to the past Baltimore Sun
Under cloud of suspicion, Wyoming college proposes eliminating journalism program Student Press Law Center
College newspapers are critical asset to universities (opinion) Kansas State student newspaper
