Articles of Interest - June 6
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Mobile Phone Records Reveal Largest Gathering in the History of Humanity MIT Tech Review
Facebook 'listening' claim denied by professor BBC
Will the Constitution Protect Your Next Smartphone? The Atlantic
The best social network you’ve never used is finally stepping out of Reddit’s shadow Washington Post
Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage Bloomberg
Your Old Myspace Account Just Came Back to Haunt You Wired
Research confirms subtweeting is completely unchill Daily Dot
***PRODUCING MEDIA
YouTube Threatens Legal Action Against Service That Lets You Download Videos Consumerist
***JOURNALISM
A Looming Rift in Science Journalism Undark
Jeff Bezos Is Refashioning Himself Into the Valley’s Lone Defender of Journalism New York Magazine
Science Journalism’s Identity Crisis Mother Board
New Vancouver journalism centre seeks out under-reported global issues Vancouver Sun
News Use Across Social Media Platforms 2016 Journalism.org
A FOIA of FOIAs Gizmodo
Newspaper publishes column on meeting before actual meeting occurs Talking New Media
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Tronc forgets to secure its Twitter account Washington Post
***BIG DATA
This Tool Makes It Stupid Simple to Turn Data Into Charts Wired
"A new wave of Uber-style data companies will emerge" to manage data--not own it Quartz
TPC releases Big Data Analytics benchmark to gauge the performance of Hadoop-based systems Datanami
Data science fallacies: #9 Increasing the number of features increases the model's significance and accuracy Adnan Masood
4 tips to keep your data visualization from getting lost in translation (#4-don't clutter) Information Week
Using a data scientist approach to implement early warning systems of cyber attacks Cyber Attacks
***TECHNOLOGY
The FBI Is Developing Software to Track and Sort People by Their Tattoos EFF
How to Listen to and Delete Everything You've Ever Said to Google Gizmodo
More than 75% of App Downloads Open an App Once And Never Come Back Fortune
***SCIENCE
How To Find Out If Scientists Are Screwing With You Vocativ
***PSYCHOLOGY
How love and marriage are changing, according to 63,000 New York Times wedding announcements Vox
Driven by greater student demand, colleges expand access to mental health services Inside Higher Ed
***PHILOSOPHY
Philosophy versus Neuroscience on the Question of Free Will Scientific America
***GRAMMAR
How The Wrong Verb Meant The Texas GOP Called Most Texans Gay NPR
***WRITING& READING
Stop The Presses. No More Capital I For The Internet NPR
2016 AP Stylebook new terms and changes GateHouse Newsroom
***LANGUAGE
A brief history of today’s most pretentious word The Awl
***LITERATURE
Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Life & Literature Introduced in a Monty Python-Style Animation Open Culture
'Everybody Behaves Badly': The Backstory To 'The Sun Also Rises' NPR
***RESEARCH
How to prove that your therapy is effective, even when it is not: a guideline Cambridge Journals
***GENDER ISSUES
Why aren’t there more women in science? The industry structure is sexist The Guardian
Women in data science--their numbers may actually be decreasing Predictive Analytics World
***RACE
Judges Treat Juveniles Of The Same Race As Themselves More Harshly NPR
***SEXUAL ASSAULT
How to Use The Chronicle’s Title IX Tracker, and What We’ve Learned Chronicle of Higher Ed
Stanford Swimmer Rapes Woman, Gets Short Jail Sentence Because Jail Might Be Hard For Him Mic
BYU police under state investigation for sexual assault reporting (The university is currently investigating the relationship between its Title IX and Honor Code offices) Daily Herald
Study: More than half of intercollegiate and recreational athletes say they have pressured women into having sex Inside Higher Ed
***FREE SPEECH
UC San Diego student newspaper sues University over free speech violations Washington Times
How far can schools go in limiting student speech online? Student Press Law Center
***LEGAL ISSUES
Hacker Lexicon: What Is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act? Wired
***ART AND DESIGN
Pair of glasses left on US gallery floor mistaken for art The Guardian
***RELIGION
The Sun Is Always Shining In Modern Christian Pop FiveThirtyEight
Christian rock star comes out as gay. Here’s the letter he wrote to the world (opinion) Religious News Service
10 facts about atheists Pew Research Center
Growing concern for German churches: Muslim refugees harassing Christians Religious News Service
TBN’s Jan Crouch Dies at 78 (family mired in multiple lawsuits involving accusations of rape, cover-up, and financial improprieties) New York Times
The Bible in Emojis? Terrific idea, sloppy execution Religious News Service
Canadian parents charged with teen son’s murder claimed he was resurrected by God NY Daily News
***STUDENT MEDIA
Appeals court hands Arizona student group First Amendment victory in battle over withheld fee support Student Press Law Center
Title IX : How to investigate if your school is inflating gender equity numbers Reveal
Student journalists will be spared from paying for federal agencies to locate and retrieve documents Student Press Law Center
***TEACHING JOURNALISM
UNLV launching ambitious overhaul to journalism school Las Vegas Review Journal
***STUDENT LIFE
Politics In Real Life: The Struggle To Pay For College NPR
New report on transfer of struggling students from universities to community colleges finds students benefit from moving in nontraditional direction Inside Higher Ed
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
These grads found creative ways to land a job New York Post
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Professor Claims Princeton Defamed Him Courthouse News
***PERSONAL GROWTH
There is the time when it isn’t the old way any more, but not yet the new way, either Becoming (my site)
***HIGHER ED
A popular college investment promised students a career, but didn’t pay off Washington Post
Report Slams Accreditor as ‘Incapable’ of Assessing College Quality Chronicle of Higher Ed
An Unlikely Campaign to Move Beyond GRE Scores Inside Higher Ed
Chancellor's smartphone action during recent graduation ceremony sparks conversation about academics' etiquette and netiquette (and lack thereof) Inside Higher Ed
Seattle University dean placed on administrative leave amid student protests Seattle Times
Jazz vespers every week in San Diego Christian Century
***TEACHING
What Should a Major Teach? ‘Adrift’ Authors Offer Answers Chronicle of Higher Ed
Plan to Define and Test What Students Should Know Inside Higher Ed
A Cautionary Tale about Jumping into MOOCs (Report: The University failed to protect the professor’s property rights) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***HUMANITIES /STEM
The Disappearing Humanities Jobs (New analysis shows dramatic decreases in open positions for professors) Inside Higher Ed
