Articles of interest - Week of March 12
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
China’s WeChat Isn’t Just An App—It’s A Cross-Cultural Education Fast Company
Snap Plans Biggest Round of Layoffs Yet Cheddar
New study shows a third of millennials are quitting social media USA Today
Instagram Influencers Are All Starting To Look The Same. Here's Why HuffPost
YouTube, the Great Radicalizer The New York Times
***MOBILE
The Subtle Nudges That Could Unhook Us From Our Phones Wired
How to stop annoying robocalls on your iPhone or Android phone The Verge
***PRODUCING MEDIA
How to shoot the best video on your smartphone Medium
Nearly one-in-five Americans now listen to audiobooks Pew Research
***INTERNET
Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet New Yorker
Washington state has passed laws protecting net neutrality The Verge
30% of all sites now run on WordPress The Next Web
The web can be weaponised – and we can't count on big tech to stop it (Tim Berners-Lee) The Guardian
***TECHNOLOGY
Passenger drones are a better kind of flying car Economist
A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service that is 100% Fatal MIT Technology Review
***BIG DATA & AI
Google’s free machine learning crash course Open Culture
Top 5 tech buzzwords of 2018 BBN Times
Leaked NSA tool territorial dispute shows agency's list of enemy hackers Wired
Things to know about machine learning: a quick guide Tech Republic
Why one Hadoop user switched from open source to go with a company that provides a higher-service version of the software Information Week
Curious about chaos engineering? Here's a cheat sheet Tech Republic
***CODING
Apple's Swift Programming Language Is Now Top Tier Wired
Tools I wish I had known about when I started coding Medium
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
What happens to billboards and radio when cars drive themselves Axios
WLUP-FM ‘The Loop’ sold to Christian broadcasting company Chicago Sun-Times
The Disconnect, a magazine you can only read if you’re offline The Disconnect
China moves Media Under Cabinet-Level Control Variety
'Make TV more like digital TV': Networks are removing clutter to improve TV viewing Digiday
Live sports audiences are getting older Axios
***JOURNALISM
Reuters is taking a big gamble on AI-supported journalism Wired
How to read less news but be more informed, according to a futurist Quartz
Where have all the big, wow-inducing digital stories gone? Poynter
Death of investigative journalist sparks mass protests in Slovakia The Guardian
A bad precedent: Removing news stories from online Union-Tribune
Press freedom is waning in Myanmar Economist
Bob Woodward defends objectivity in journalism: “My job is not to take sides” Vox
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
New Media Buys the ‘Austin American-Statesman’ Texas Monthly
Sinclair's new media-bashing promos rankle local anchors CNN
Facebook aiming to launch News for Watch this summer Axios
***FAKE NEWS
The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News The Atlantic
We need to get better at covering studies about fake news Poynter
The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News The Atlantic
When wire services make mistakes, misinformation spreads quickly Poynter
Why It’s Okay to Call It ‘Fake News’ The Atlantic
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The People who can help you see yourself for who you are Becoming (my blog)
Your coworkers are better at rating some parts of your personality than you are The Atlantic
***GRAMMAR
Trying to Like ‘Unlike’ Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why Do we Love to Complain about Language The Guardian
14 Grammar Myths You Should Stop Believing Business Insider
***WRITING & READING
Wrestling With Auto-Correct The New York Times
Does Alcohol Recovery Kill Great Writing? The New York Times
***LANGUAGE
Enrollment in Most Foreign-Language Programs Continues to Fall Chronicle of Higher Ed
Congratulations, everybody: ‘Dumpster fire’ is now a dictionary entry, and here’s why The Washington Post
The ‘Haves’ and ‘Haven’ts’ of the Past Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
Rebels and Rebellion in Classic Chinese Literature Global Voices
Publishers rejected her, Christians attacked her: The deep faith of 'A Wrinkle in Time' author Madeleine L'Engle Washington Post
Is literature next in line for virtual-reality treatment? Economist
***GENDER
Being Promoted May Double Women's Odds of Getting Divorced Fortune
Kansas GOP votes to ‘oppose all efforts to validate transgender identity’ Kansas.com
Idaho Must Allow Gender Changes on Birth Certificates, Judge Rules TIME
The status of women of color in the U.S. news media 2018: full report Women’s Media Center
Harvard University faculty members voted on Tuesday to include penalties for members of single-gender social groups in the student handbook The Harvard Crimson
Survey Finds Many Transgender Teachers Face Discrimination On The Job NPR
Five Women This American Life
Sweden tries to increase gender equality on the web: Together with Wikimedia Economist
Recognizing and Avoiding Bias Scholarly Kitchen
Women in majority-male workplaces report higher rates of gender discrimination Pew Research
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
20 Black Women You Need To Know Refinery
National Geographic acknowledges past racist coverage Associated Press
***FREE SPEECH
More U.S. College Students Say Campus Climate Deters Speech Gallup
College students support free speech — unless it offends them Washington Post
People in less democratic countries are more likely to say China and Russia respect personal freedoms Pew Research
***LEGAL ISSUES
Creator of Pepe the Frog is suing Infowars LA Times
The Big Push To Reform Music Copyright For The Digital Age Forbes
***RELIGION
Conspiracy Theorists Arrested After Harassing Sutherland Springs Pastor Snopes
Billy Graham and the emergence of Christian media NOQ Report
Requirement to tell foster kids the Easter Bunny is real violated Christian couple’s charter rights, judge rules Toronto Star
Madeleine L’Engle’s Christianity was vital to A Wrinkle in Time Vox
The article removed from Forbes, “Why White Evangelicalism Is So Cruel” Political Orphans
Why Generation Z is less Christian than ever -- and why that's good news (opinion) Fox News
I’m a scholar of the “prosperity gospel.” It took cancer to show me I was in its grip Vox
Church Of Scientology Launching OTT TV Network Media Post
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
The Atlantic: How Evangelicals 'lost their way' (video) Morning Joe
Evangelical Leaders Launch Prayer Campaign for Dreamers; Urge Congress to Act as DACA Expires Christian Post
***MUSIC
Is Leonard Cohen the New Secular Saint of Montreal? The New York Times
Mozart’s Diary Where He Composed His Final Masterpieces Is Now Digitized and Available Online Open Culture
***STUDENT MEDIA
Yale University's chief investment officer, criticizing student journalists Yale Daily News
College newspapers forge a future for journalism Daily Tar Heel
What Research Says About Video Games And Violence In Children NPR
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Harvard professor retires amid allegations of sexual misconduct CNN
Sexual assault in marriage needs to be part of the #MeToo conversation Vox
The Problem With ‘Inappropriate’ Chronicle of Higher Ed
***BUSINESS
The Nope Button will call your phone when a coworker is hanging out by your desk too long
Fewer employers testing for drugs as marijuana legalization spreads AL.com
***HEALTH
Major Medical Associations Feud over Diabetes Guidelines NPR
For all their risks, opioids had no pain-relieving advantage in a yearlong clinical trial LA Times
You can't 'overload' a child's immune system with vaccines NY Daily News
Fast genome tests are diagnosing some of the sickest babies in time to save them Technology Review
For diabetics, a high-fiber diet feeds gut microbes, lowering blood sugar Stat News
Many Women Come Close To Death In Childbirth NPR
***HEATH CARE COSTS
Health Care So Expensive? Some of the Reasons You’ve Heard Turn Out to Be Myths New York Times
Probe Into Generic Drug Price Fixing Set To Widen NPR
The real reason the U.S. spends twice as much on health care as other wealthy countries Washington Post
Over 500 Canadian doctors protest raises, say they're being paid too much (yes, too much) MSNBC
***RELATIONSHIPS
How can I help? 23 ways to support someone going through a tough time Medium
A lack of empathy is shaped by genetics, according to new research Quartz
***SOCIAL ISSUES
Americans unify against foreign threats. Can we unify without one? Vox
***PSYCHOLOGY
Synesthesia’s mysterious ‘mingling of the senses’ may result from hyperconnected neurons Science
How to Prime Your Brain to Be Happy GQ
Life as a Nonviolent Psychopath The Atlantic
After a stroke, her decades of severe depression vanished Washington Post
Psychopaths pay less attention to what other people are thinking New Scientist
New Brain Research Suggests Stress Is Contagious Medical Daily Times
***ETHICS
Bioethics article retracted for…ethics violation Retraction Watch
Bioethics: Key Concepts and Research Daily Jstor
***STUDENT LIFE
Gen Z is quitting social media in droves because it makes them unhappy, study says PR Weekly
Texas college students, fearing opioid deaths, teach each other to reverse overdoses Houston Chronicle
It’s time to cut the cord — with your college student WTOP
Student-body Prez Election on hold: Candidates posted offensive tweets Columbia Missourian
***RESEARCH
The Augmented Researcher: What Does 2018 Hold for AI in Publishing? RD Mag
Is plagiarism a problem in economics? Survey of editors says … yes Retraction Watch
False investigators and coercive citation are widespread in academic research The London School of Economics Political Science
I refuse all review requests with deadlines < 3 weeks. Here’s why, and how Scientist Sees Squirrel
The potential harm to patients when clinicians don’t receive consistent notifications about retracted data Retraction Watch
***HIGHER ED
Purdue’s controversial deal to buy for-profit Kaplan University gets final OK Journal & Courier
Teaching Newsletter: How One University Seeks to Shore Up the Sophomore Year Chronicle of Higher Ed
Fight at Sac State library may have broken out after a student sneezed, witness says Sacramento Bee
The University of Arizona Tracked Students’ ID Card Swipes to Predict Who Would Drop Out Gizmodo
An Economist Argues That Our Education System Is Largely Useless Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why Enrollment Is Rising at Large Christian Colleges: Many Christian-based schools charge lower tuition compared with other private colleges, experts say US News & World Report
***TEACHING
Race and Gender Bias in Online Courses: Study finds instructors are much more likely to respond to comments from white male students than from others Inside Higher Ed
Authors of premier medical textbook didn’t disclose $11 million in industry payments Stat News
Professors are banning laptops in class: I’d Be an ‘A’ Student if I Could Just Read My Notes Wall Street Journal
Why Are so Many High School Graduates Bad Writers When they Arrive at College? Inside Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Spam invitations to junk journals and concocted conferences are not just annoying; they do actual harm Chronicle of Higher Ed
Leaving my Ph.D. program turned out to be a smarter decision than applying Chronicle of Higher Ed
Prominent Columbia University neuroscientist fired for ‘serious behavioral violations’: the university is closing his lab Science Magazine