articles of interest - Oct 16
/***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
When Does a Sexual Advance Amount to Sexual Harassment? An Attorney Explains Hollywood Reporter
Students storm a professor’s class at Columbia to protest the university’s handling of rape cases Inside Higher Ed
#MeToo made the scale of sexual abuse go viral. But is it asking too much of survivors? Washington Post
***ART & DESIGN
11 Optical Illusions Found in Visual Design Prototypr
Art About Racism: Closed to the Public Inside Higher Ed
Christie’s Unveils a Lost Leonardo da Vinci in New York Vogue
Two new studies paint an intriguing picture about the payoff of arts training Chronicle of Higher Ed
How Futura Became The Most Ripped-Off Typeface In History Fast Co.
***MUSIC
Hear Bob Dylan's Lost Gospel Masterpiece 'Making a Liar Out of Me' Rolling Stone
Hear 1,500+ Genres of Music, All Mapped Out on an Insanely Thorough Interactive Graph Open Culture
A billionaire’s quirky quest to create a mecca for Bob Dylan fans. In Tulsa, Oklahoma The Washington Post
***FILM
The History of Film Censorship The FIRE
***JOURNALISM
The State of Technology in Global Newsrooms ICFJ
The Journalism of Why: How we struggle to answer the hardest question Poynter
Donald Trump just issued a direct threat to the free and independent media (opinion) CNN
GOP lawmaker drafts bill requiring journalists to register with police The Hill
Tips for Data Journalism in the Shadow of an Overbroad Anti-Hacking Law ACLU
10 Journalism Tips That Never Go Out of Style (video) YouTube
Malta car bomb kills Panama Papers journalist The Guardian
Not a revolution (yet): Data journalism hasn’t changed that much in 4 years, a new paper finds Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Is Brand Journalism Just for Big Businesses? Business2Business
The New York Times posts social media guidelines online for their newsroom accounts Talking New Media
***FAKE NEWS
Twitter Bots Are Trying To Influence You. These Six Charts Show You How To Spot One BuzzFeed News
These two studies found that correcting misperceptions works. But it’s not magic Poynter
Facebook Says Its Fake News Label Helps Reduce The Spread Of A Fake Story By 80% BuzzFeed News
Researchers developing a platform to detect image manipulation Rochester Institute of Technology
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Living purely in opposition to something, rather than for something, hollows you out inside Becoming (my blog)
The flaws a Nobel Prize-winning economist wants you to know about yourself Quartz
***LANGUAGE
An argument over the evolution of language, with high stakes Economist
On Dictionary Day, a tribute to books that offer the last word on language Poynter
***LITERATURE
Mississippi School District pulls ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ from its Curriculum over Language Sun-Herald
To Read This Experimental Edition of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, You'll Need to Add Heat to the PagesOpen Culture
***GENDER
Why Photography Can’t Get Woke Bloomberg
Women still earn a lot less than men, despite decades of equal-pay laws. Why? Economist
ASNE's latest diversity survey shows some progress, but newsrooms are still mostly white and male Poynter
***FREE SPEECH
Students Divided on Free Speech Inside Higher Ed
Hecklers shout down California attorney general and Assembly majority leader at Whittier College Washington Post
Why Are Millennials Wary of Freedom? (opinion) New York Times
***LEGAL ISSUES
When is a Facebook ‘like’ a crime? Washington Post
Does the Internet Archive Need the Copyright Rhetoric to Be Useful? Illusion of More
Supreme Court Turns Away Challenge To Google's Trademark Media Post
Microsoft’s fight with the feds over foreign servers is headed to Supreme Court The Verge
Benching NFL players for protesting during the anthem would be illegal (opinion) Vox
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act Turns 20 Media Law Monitor
***TECHNOLOGY
Tech has made life better, say 42% of Americans Pew Research Center
Social bots as a threat to democracy BoingBoing
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
The 1st demonstration of the ability of quantum machines to outperform classical computers could be just months way Technology Review
Intelligence leaders caution that AI cannot and should not replace the role of the human analyst Fed Tech Magazine
Machine learning demo with your webcam and GIFs Flowing Data
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Snapchat is getting closer and closer to being a truly useful app with Context Cards Quartz
What Facebook Did to American Democracy The Atlantic
The New York Times Issues Social Media Guidelines for the Newsroom New York Times
Nearly half of U.S. teens prefer Snapchat over other social media Recode
***PRODUCING MEDIA
What do you need to know before creating a podcast? Better News
Deepgram opens up its machine transcription platform to everyone Tech Crunch
***RELIGION
Africa's "reverse missionaries" are trying to bring Christianity back to the United Kingdom Quartz
Hell House: The evangelism strategy that aims to scare people into heaven Christianity Today
How a growing Christian movement is seeking to change America The Conversation
Just What Is the Museum of the Bible Trying to Do? Politico
Sneak peek: DC's huge new Museum of the Bible includes lots of tech — but not a lot of Jesus Washington Post
Female church executive named lead pastor of Willow Creek Chicago Tribune
A growing share of Americans say it’s not necessary to believe in God to be moral Pew Research
Church denies First Communion to fashion-loving girl because she wanted to wear a suit Washington Post
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Why evangelicals love Trump Politico
Trump, unlikely religious favorite, hails Christian values Washington Post
Donald Trump and the Dawn of the Evangelical-Nationalist Alliance Politico
***SOCIOLOGY
Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts calls data on partisan gerrymandering “sociological gobbledygook” Inside Higher Ed
First Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing the Nature of Society MIT Technology Review
***HEALTH
This Company Is Trying To Disrupt The Braces Industry And Dentists Are Fighting Back BuzzFeed
***SCIENCE
NASA's visitor center offers a video game filled with bad facts and grammar errors The Verge
***PSYCHOLOGY
Confirmation bias: Why you make terrible life choices Medium
Find Out Which Cognitive Biases Alter Your Perspective Life Hacker
***PRODUCTIVITY
Lessons on Productivity Chronicle of Higher Ed
***HISTORY
I have a message for you (12 minute documentary) New York Times
The Secret Lives of Leonardo da Vinci The New Yorker
***RESEARCH
ResearchGate has reportedly started to take down large numbers of research papers Inside Higher Ed
China’s festering problem of systemic research fraud New York Times
Transparent peer review Nature Index
A study examines 70 years of engineering retractions, finding the main reason for retraction was unethical conduct Taylor & Francis Online
New web services are helping authors make data-driven decisions when choosing which journal to submit to The London School of Economics & Political Science
It is time to restore Rules for Authorship of scientific publications Wiley Online Library
The Facebooking of Scholarly Research Scholarly Kitchen
***HIGHER ED
***TEACHING
They Once Cheated in Class. Now They Teach Chronicle of Higher Ed
A new study shows that students learn way more effectively from print textbooks than screens Business Insider
***STUDENT LIFE
Student art exhibit at Penn prompts fierce debate over suicide Inside Higher Ed
Why Are More American Teenagers Than Ever Suffering From Severe Anxiety? New York Times
Research says college students no more narcissistic than previous generations at that age Inside Higher Ed
University student charters planes to bring supplies to Puerto Rico WTAE
America’s top universities deny students fair hearings The FIRE
***STUDENT MEDIA
How to cover free speech issues on university campuses Student Press Law Center
***JOBS
You Probably Need a Public Portfolio Even If You're Not a Freelancer or a "Creative" Life Hacker