Articles of Interest - August 22
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
Live-streaming Economist
What you need to know to get started with Facebook Live International Journalists' Network
98 personal data points that Facebook uses to target ads to you Washington Post
Is 'FaceBragging' the quickest route to divorce? Stuff
Twitter ‘quality filter’ works because it’s about news, not social The Next Web
***PRODUCING MEDIA
A GIF-by-GIF guide to GIFing everything you see Daily Dot
Everything you ever wanted to know about WeChat Medium
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Chronic procrastination? Rather than lamenting your lack of will power, you can just blame your parents Becoming (my blog)
Patience Is the Secret to Wealth and Health, Economists Suggest in a New Study Wall Street Journal
***GRAMMAR
What’s the Matter With ‘Me’? Resistance to the personal object pronoun continues to rise Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Linguistics of Assassination Threats: What exactly did Donald Trump mean about 'the Second Amendment people"? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Reflections on the origin of the phrase "drink the Kool-Aid" Chronicle of Higher Ed
***WRITING& READING
Learning to Write All Over Again Chronicle of Higher Ed
Thank Heavens for Email Clichés The Atlantic
***LANGUAGE
Is repeating your toddler’s cute speech mistakes bad for her development? Slate
Machine-to-Human Communication: Nobody Cares Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
Will Reading Romance Novels Make Artificial Intelligence More Human? Jstor
Literature of the Forever War New York Times
Happy Birthday, Dorothy Parker Jstor
Better To Reign In Hell: Literature's Unpunished Villains NPR
***GENDER ISSUES
Women are judged by the way they speak Economist
***RACE
Study Finds More Faculty Diversity at Public Institutions Than at Private Ones Chronicle of Higher Ed
Are black Americans more likely to be shot or roughed up by police? Economist
***LEGAL ISSUES
If computers wrote laws: Decisions handed down by data Economist
Confusion over legality of republishing Data Sets Nature
***BIG DATA / STATS
The 7 Steps of a Data Project Data Science
DARPA wants AI with the capacity to help humans trace the conclusions, decisions and reasoning Next Big Future
Will reading romance novels make artificial intelligence more human? Jstor
The hardest work in data analysis lies in the data munging-an unglamorous yet critical part of data science Analytic Bridge
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
P&G to Scale Back Targeted Facebook Ads citing limited effectiveness Wall Street Journal
Facebook Profit Nearly Triples on Mobile Ad Sales and New Users New York Times
Television is at last having its digital-revolution moment Economist
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Buyouts hit GateHouse newspapers across the United States Poynter
Facebook Traffic to U.S. News Sites Has Fallen by Double Digits, Report Says Fortune
NYT decides to shutter its mobile app NYT Now, will rely on Facebook to drive new traffic Talking New Media
News Apps Are Dying Off. But in a Way, They’ll Live On Wired
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Law Professor to Students: Stop Calling Me by My First Name Wall Street Journal
***SCIENCE
The Changing Face of Scientific Collaboration: A spirit of collective enterprise in research is being replaced by a rush to assign precise credit for who did what Chronicle of Higher Ed
***HEALTH
Menopause Makes Your Body Age Faster TIME
***PSYCHOLOGY
Bayesian reasoning may help to explain some mental disorders where processing flaws confuse prior expectations Science News
***NEUROSCIENCE
Researchers just doubled what we know about the map of the human brain Washington Post
Sting's Brain Scan Reveals Clues About How The Musical Mind Works NPR
***HIGHER ED
UC Berkeley chancellor to resign following widespread criticism by faculty LA Times
As College Costs Soar, Critics Question Open Curriculum Courses NPR
California bill to ban grant students from religious colleges stymied Washington Times
Oklahoma Wesleyan University Joins Lawsuit Over 'Dear Colleague' Letter KOTV
***TEACHING
Do perceptions of the utility of ethics affect academic cheating? Science Direct
***RESEARCH
Two Cheers for the Retraction Boom The New Atlantis
‘Does This Have to Go through the IRB?’ Chronicle of Higher Ed
Two studies, one on neuroscience and one on palaeoclimatology, cast doubt on established results Economist
Science editor-in-chief sounds alarm over falling public trust Times Higher Ed
***RELIGION
Bible commentaries pulped after New Testament scholar admits plagiarism Christian Today
Despite his popularity, the pontiff’s efforts to reshape his church face stiff resistance Economist
Evangelical Lutherans Overwhelmingly Vote to Approve Declaration of Unity With Roman Catholics Christian News