Articles of Interest - April 23, 2018
/***TECHNOLOGY
Chinese man caught by facial recognition at pop concert BBC
An Elaborate Hack Shows How Much Damage IoT Bugs Can Do WIRED
This wearable device can respond to your thoughts The Verge
Style Is an Algorithm Racked
***BIG DATA & AI
Machine learning meets Chaos Theory—and artificial-intelligence algorithms can apparently predict the future of chaotic systems Quanta Magazine
The intersection of Artificial Intelligence and the practice of law—the tech tools now available to lawyers Big Law Business
The TSA will soon start incorporating machine learning into scanners at airport security checkpoints GNC
How to create “deep fake” videos and the implications Hackernoon
***SOCIAL MEDIA
17 Ways Your Friends Are Lying To You On Social Media Cracked
Two things people get wrong about Snapchat, and two things Snap got wrong building its business Recode
Q&A: How Pew Research Center identified bots on Twitter Pew Research Center
What's Not Included in Facebook's 'Download Your Data' WIRED
***PRIVACY
Palantir Knows Everything About You Bloomberg
Four U.S. senators seek details on unusual cellular surveillance in DC area CNBC
Facebook Is Steering Users Away From Privacy Protections Wired
***PRODUCING MEDIA
The BBC is letting you download more than 16,000 free sound effect samples from its archive Music Radar
Phew, we’ve apparently solved 97% of the podcast measurement problem — everybody relax Nieman Lab
A Complete Guide to Video Production Management Story Hunter
***INTERNET
The Internet has serious health problems, Mozilla Foundation report finds Ars Technica
Web's inventor discusses digital monopolies, privacy threats Associated Press
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
State of the Media: Audio Today 2018 Nielsen
***JOURNALISM
How to build a story out of “no comment” comments Dynamics of Writing
Lawyers: Journalist was detained by ICE because of reporting Associated Press
How a Web marketer sneaked her pseudonym into U.S. News New York Times
The Field Guide to Security Training in the Newsroom
In many communities, the best local journalism is not coming from print Poynter
Meet the journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class Columbia Journalism Review
Why Do Russian Journalists Keep Falling? NPR
China wages war on apps offering news and jokes Economist
The Importance of Journalism in the Age of "Fake News" U-Mass Media
Digital media research: The most interesting studies of early 2018 Journalism Resources
Journalists, it's unethical to ignore your online security Poynter
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Report for America Supports seeks to install 1,000 journalists where Cutbacks Hit Hard New York Times
Why Are Newspaper Websites So Horrible? CityLab
Local media struggle to hold Sinclair accountable The Conversation
Reinventing Local TV News Harvard’s Nieman Reports
***FAKE NEWS
A PSA About Fake News From Barack Obama - It’s Not What It Appears (video)
Just the Facts – an interview with Brooke Binkowski of Snopes.com Mile O’Brien blog
Americans Favor Protecting Information Freedoms Over Government Steps to Restrict False News Online Journalism.org
Dis/misinformation: less talking, more doing Medium
Fake news flourishes when partisan audiences crave it Economist
Documentary in the Time of Fake News at The 21st Annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Filmmaker Magazine
Ted Koppel delivers a brief history of fake news to the Stanford community Stanford
Asian countries launch phoney assaults on fake news Economist
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Lessons from The Victorian Internet Becoming (my blog)
Why BAD Photographers THINK They're Good (video) Jamie Windsor
***WRITING & READING
Culture Shapes the Brain: How Reading Changes the Way we Think Medical Express
The surprising benefits of a read-aloud reading group The Research Whisperer
***LANGUAGE
Can You Explain What a Shibboleth Is? Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Race to Save the World's Disappearing Languages National Geographic
How to Teach the Rhythm of Language: Stop Counting Syllables! Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
How Stories have Shaped the World BBC
If Henry David Thoreau were alive today, he would be pissed NBC News
***GENDER
''Time's' 2018 Most Influential People list has record number of women, people under 40 USA Today
When Will the Gender Gap in Science Disappear? The Atlantic
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Mayor responds after Tennessee lawmakers punish Memphis for removing Confederate statues WREG-TV
A Lesson In How To Overcome Implicit Bias NPR
In a Proudly Diverse Australia, White People Still Run Almost Everything New York Times
How American Racism Influenced Hitler The New Yorker
***FREE SPEECH
Joliet Junior College settles ‘free speech zone’ lawsuit Chicago Sun-Times
***LEGAL ISSUES
Q&A: Lawyer behind Hannity revelation at Cohen hearing speaks Columbia Journalism Review
Too often juries comprise 12 confused men (and women) Economist
Supreme Court Preview: Immigrants' Rights And Notice To Appear NPR
New Hampshire Court Dismisses Defamation suit filed by a patent owner unhappy that it had been called a “patent troll” Electronic Frontier Foundation
Court sides with human in copyright fight over monkey selfie Washington Post
***RELIGION
More women are coming forward with accusations of inappropriate encounters with Megachurch pastor Bill Hybels Christianity Today
Criticism of Christians and Chick-fil-A Has Troubling Roots Bloomberg
What is hell? The Conversation
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Church of The DonaldNever mind Fox. Trump’s most reliable media mouthpiece is now Christian TV Politico
Dozens of evangelical leaders meet to discuss how Trump era has unleashed ‘grotesque caricature’ of their faith (opinion) Washington Post
Political Dealing: The Crisis of Evangelicalism Fuller
White evangelical support for Donald Trump at all-time high BongBong
There’s a ‘red evangelicalism and a blue evangelicalism’: Faith leaders gather to discuss their common future Religious News Service
***ART & DESIGN
The long, incredibly tortuous, and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font Quartz
Sound-Wave Tattoo Digg
***MUSIC
Personality predicts musical preference Economist
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
University has refused to release names of students found to have committed sexual misconduct Western Washington University
School warns student not to speak out on sexual assault case-without legal justification The Breese (James Madison University’s student-run newspaper)
Vice Media is sued after employee is assaulted on assignment NBC News
Alaska Man's Revelation Shine A Light On Sex Abuse In The State NPR
What Happens When A Community Tries To Address Its Own Sexual Harassment Issues NPR
***BUSINESS
10 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings The Conversation
Bike-share companies are transforming US cities – and they’re just getting started The Conversation
***ENVIRONMENT
Scientists stumbled upon a plastic-eating bacterium—then accidentally made it stronger PopSci
Americans waste 150,000 tons of food each day – equal to a pound per person The Guardian
Climate change schism: Evangelical Christians divided on human role in global warming NBC News
***HEALTH
Some mutations tied to autism may be passed down from fathers Spectrum News
Antidepressants in pregnancy tied to changes in babies' brains Reuters
Home Testing Kit Will Check For Sexually Transmitted Diseases NPR
The vaccine dilemma: how experts weigh benefits for many against risks for a few Stat News
***PSYCHOLOGY
Mariah Carey says she has bipolar disorder; a psychiatrist explains what that is The Conversation
This is what love does to your Brain: It's really an Addiction Vox
***NEUROSCIENCE
Brain scans may help diagnose neurological, psychiatric disorders Science Daily
Do adult human brains renew their neurons? Economist
***PHILOSOPHY
Why I Left Academic Philosophy Medium
***RESEARCH
A Remedy for Broken Science, Or an Attempt to Undercut It? Undark
Paper Accepted…Unless the Letter Was Forged The Scholarly Kitchen
***HIGHER ED
IoT Applications in Education KD Nuggets
For-profit colleges lose when two-year colleges offer B.A. degrees Hechinger Report
Opinion: It’s Time to Reconsider The Role And Future of Community Colleges Times of San Diego
Nonprofits poised to unseat U of Phoenix as the largest online Inside Higher Ed
How Liberty University Built a Billion-Dollar Empire Online New York Times
***HUMANITIES / STEM
Forget coding. It’s the soft skills, stupid. And that’s what schools should be teaching (opinion) Washington Post
***TEACHING
How to Turn Your Exams Into Learning Opportunities Chronicle of Higher Ed
How Trauma Can Alter Your Teaching Chronicle of Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Who Doesn’t Get Overtime Pay? Online Instructors, for One Chronicle of Higher Ed
As pay and benefits stagnate, nontenured faculty and graduate students in Illinois, Chicago look to unions Chicago Tribune
Language of Ph.D Defenses Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT MEDIA
SGA president who threatened college newspaper gets impeached College Media Matters
Berkeley Student paper reports on Squirrel Candidacy to Student Senate The Daily Californian
***STUDENT LIFE
A majority of U.S. teens fear a shooting could happen at their school, and most parents share their concern Pew Research
Most colleges say applicants' social media profiles are 'fair game,' survey says Cleveland.com
When Disadvantaged Students Overlook Elite Colleges The Atlantic
University of Portland Boots Tennis Player From Roster After “Violent, Misogynistic” Remarks Willamette Week
Poll: Majority of millennials are in debt, hitting pause on major life events NBC News
Boston College Philosophy Professor Offers Students Extra Credit for Going on First Date Daily Signal