***SOCIAL MEDIA
What do your Instagram photos say about your mental health? The Verge
Instagram is ruining food (opinion) Boston Globe
SoundCloud Gets New Investment Round, Lives to Stream Another Day MotherBoard
South Carolina man dies after running into burning home Daily Mail
Facebook is rolling out a Trending News section on mobile, now with its own link TechCrunch
***TECHNOLOGY
An Emoji-trained Algorithm Knows When You’re Being Sarcastic on Twitter MIT Technology Review
The Guy Who Invented Those Annoying Password Rules Now Regrets Wasting Your Time Gizmodo
China uses a quantum satellite to transmit potentially unhackable data CNBC
How Your Apple Wireless Earbuds Could Double as Hearing Aids MIT Technology Review
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
“Neural networks are turning out to be great code crackers” MIT Tech Review
The religious war between frequentists and Bayesians and its statistical influence on AI The Register
Struggling with making sense out of the massively growing digital universe despite increasing spend on big data tech CIO
China uses a quantum satellite to transmit potentially unhackable data CNBC
Could predictive analytics allow us to anticipate network problems: failures, degradation, performance issues? NoJitter
Stanford professor Andrew Ng spreads the gospel of AI with a new online school Wired
An emoji-trained algorithm knows when you’re being sarcastic on Twitter MIT Tech Review
***PRODUCING MEDIA
TuneIn Raises $50 Million to Prove Online Audio Can Make Money Bloomberg
***INTERNET
Of those harassed online, nearly half know the harasser Pew Research Center
***JOURNALISM
We’re in the early stages of a visual revolution in journalism Recode
Remix: Best Practices for Aggregation on Deadline PBS Media Shift
How journalists should handle racist words, images and violence in Charlottesville Poynter
Providence Journal identified its own anonymous source, Will police officer sue? iMediaEthics
What Data-Mining TV's Political Coverage Tells Us RealClearPolitics
Apologies & Retractions: Nazi salute, name calling ‘butch queen,’ round-up of journalist Twitter fails iMediaEthics
Blurring Line of Opinion and Reporting, Scourge of Writers as Brands PBS Media Shift
Top journalists reveal the best reporting advice they have received Columbia Journalism Review
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
When Silicon Valley Took Over Journalism The Atlantic
***FAKE NEWS
Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News MIT Technology Review
No, these pictures are not from the recent racist rally in Charlottesville Mashable
How to spot a fake viral video The Verge
Not Real News: A look at what didn’t happen this week Associated Press
Who Said What tool brings artificial intelligence to fact-checking audio and video Journalism.co
***PERSONAL GROWTH
How America Lost Its Mind in a custom-make reality (opinion) The Atlantic
You Aren't Lazy––You're Terrified: On Paralysis And Perfectionism Ravishly
Why Entrepreneurs Can’t Hold Regular JobsFortune Insiders Fortune
***WRITING & READING
Hillary Clinton's pastor plagiarized portion of new book CNN
The true importance of good spelling BBC
***LANGUAGE
Robots Gossiping in a Secret Language? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
1922: The Year That Transformed English Literature New York Times
Henry David Thoreau, a new biography: This compelling study reveals an enigmatic American writer worthy of reappraisal Economist
The books that inspire people to get PhDs Quartz
How Charlotte Brontë came to write “Jane Eyre” Economist
Book Review: Printer’s Error: Irreverent Stories From Book History Scholarly Kitchen
***GENDER
Would transgender troops harm military effectiveness? Here’s what the research says Washington Post
Study suggests big difference between how college men describe affirmative consent and how they apply it to their own sexual experiences Inside Higher Ed
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
How did FaceApp think people would react to their new change-your-race filters? Washington Post
College Diversity Officers Face a Demanding Job and Scarce Resources Chronicle of Higher Ed
Extremist white movement is turning up on college campuses through speakers and leaflets Inside Higher Ed
What happened when eight states outlawed race-conscious admissions at colleges Economist
Killings of Blacks by Whites Are Far More Likely to Be Ruled ‘Justifiable’ New York Times
When White Supremacists Descend, What Can a College President Do? Chronicle of Higher Ed
The ‘war on whites’ is a myth — and an ugly one Washington Post
Intermarriage and U.S. Hispanics: New research Journalists Resource
***FREE SPEECH
Google Memo Raises Questions About Limits Of Free Speech In The Workplace NPR
TechDirt, sued by the lawyer who fought Gawker, gets $250,000 to cover freedom of speech issues Harvard Nieman Lab
Techdirt: Now With More Free Speech Reporting Techdirt
First Amendment ruling focuses the lens on photojournalists' rights -- again Student Press Law Center
***LEGAL ISSUES
'Reading Rainbow' Owner Accuses LeVar Burton of "Theft and Extortion" in Lawsuit Hollywood Reporter Hollywood Reporter
Was Scaramucci’s profanity-laced call recording Illegal? Associated Press
Fox News Host Eric Bolling Sues Journalist for $50M Over Lewd Photo Allegation Hollywood Reporter
Country Rap Artist Can't Force Facebook To Remove Page Created By Users Media Post
Disney Settles Defamation Case With Beef Products Inc. NPR
LinkedIn Connection Request Doesn’t Violate Non-Solicitation Clause Technology & Marketing Law Blog
***RELIGION
Christian author Jen Hatmaker on the ‘moxie’ it takes to get your books banned Religion News Service
The Woes of the Southern Baptist Convention New York Times
New Books Explore How to be Single and Christian Publishers Weekly
How America Really Lost Its Mind: Hint, It Wasn’t Entirely the Fault of Hippie New Agers and Postmodern Academics (opinion) USC Annenberg Religion Dispatches
What is wrong with white Christians? (opinion) Religious News Service
Muslims and Islam: Key findings in the U.S. and around the world Pew Research Center
Canadian pastor faced ‘overwhelming loneliness’ in N Korea labor camp AFP
Museum of the Bible to offer free admission when it opens in November Washington Post
Christian Entertainment Company Pure Flix & Paramount release Faith-themed film staring Renee Zellweger Christian Post
Charlottesville and Your Church's Response (opinion) Christianity Today
Tweeting In Church: German Protestants Are Encouraged To Tweet During Services : All Tech Considered NPR
Like most Americans, U.S. Muslims concerned about extremism in the name of Islam Pew Research
**MUSIC
A a a a a Very Good Song: A clever way to avoid hearing the same song every time you plug your phone into the car stereo Engadget
When Mistakes/Studio Glitches Give Famous Songs Their Personality Open Culture
Why do stars like Adele keep losing their voice? The Guardian
Music classes for kids should include pop music and electronic composition lessons Quartz
Metallica Board Of Directors Debates Whether New Riff Will Have Negative Impact On Shareholder Value The Onion
***FILM
Social Impact Marketer Picture Motion: The Secret Weapon Behind Some Of The Best Known Films Deadline
Director Destin Daniel Cretton Has Always Lived in The Glass Castle Vanity Fair
“I’ll Push You” book explores the power of friendship Northwest Nazarene University
Woody Harrelson On 'Glass Castle' Dad Whose Rages And Redemptions Loomed Large NPR
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Who’s Afraid of Sinclair Broadcasting? Politico
***TEACHING JOURNALISM
$147,000 for a One-Year Master's? In Journalism? Cost of Columbia’s new graduate degree in data journalism slammed by journalists Inside Higher Ed
Practicing What We Preach: Teaching engagement in j-schools means listening to our students Medium
Professor says his students-grade-themselves Syllabus was a way to start a conversation Inside Higher Ed
***SOCIOLOGY
Sociologists call for a systematic response to online targeting of and threats against public scholars Inside Higher Ed
***HEALTH
The drug crisis that nobody's talking about: One in eight American adults is an alcoholic, study says Washington Post
Alcoholism among women rises in new study Daily Mail
Hospice, Designed For The Dying, Is Discharging Many Live Patients NPR
Monsanto Was Its Own Ghostwriter for Some Safety Reviews Bloomberg
What does European Health Care Really Look Like? Economist
Why we fell for clean eating The Guardian
***SCIENCE
The Ongoing Battle Between Science Teachers And Fake News NPR
Spreadsheet Risks in Science Neuroskeptic
***NEUROSCIENCE
Video Games May Affect The Brain Differently, Depending On What You Play NPR
This Type of Video Game May Actually Harm Your Brain Fortune
***RESEARCH
Publishing an Unsuccessful Self-replication: Double-dipping or Correcting the Record? Rolf Zwaan
An Appraisal of the Carlisle-Stouffer-Fisher Method for Assessing Study Data Integrity and Fraud OvidInsights
Publishing in fraudulent journals is criminal Times of Higher Ed
***HIGHER ED
As White Supremacists Wreak Havoc, a University Becomes a Crisis Center Chronicle of Higher Ed
The profit motive is creeping into higher education Inside Higher Ed
Public Records Appear to Have Been Altered by Former General Counsel, U. of Florida Audit Finds Chronicle of Higher Ed
University responds to NAACP advisory against travel to Missouri Columbia Missourian
Are Small Colleges Doomed? Not So Fast Chronicle of Higher Ed
***HUMANITIES /STEM
Your 'useless' liberal arts degree can give you an edge in tech USA Today
Students At Most Colleges Don’t Pick ‘Useless’ Majors FivethirtyEight
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
Southern Baptist College announces new classical education minor (press release) Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Christian College president says 'snowflake' student problem persists in new Book Today
Colorado Christian University VP pens USA Today editorial against marijuana USA Today
University Shifts Campus From San Diego to Indy Inside Indiana Business
Baylor ordered to turn over documents in sex assault lawsuit Associated Press
Azusa Pacific University sued by Supervisor over alleged cover-up of anti-gay violence News Release
Disgraced Baylor Coach's Finds New Job at Christian School Houston Press
'If you mess up, you 'fess up': White urged Baylor openness Houston Chronicle
***TEACHING
Syllabus Offering Self-Grading Pulled at Georgia Inside Higher Ed
When Will We Talk About the Syllabus? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Public records appear to have been altered at University of Florida Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why can’t college graduates write coherent prose? Washington Post
The Benefits of No-Tech Note Taking: A year after banning students from taking notes on laptops, a professor reports on the results Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT LIFE
What I Wish I Had Known Freshman Year of College Teen Vogue
People who Complain about Millennials are Really just complaining about being old Quartz
Report: Where students feel most ― and least ― safe on campus USA Today
Yes, Smartphones Are Destroying a Generation, But Not of Kids Jstor
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Male student one semester from graduating sues UT-Austin over possible expulsion for alleged sexual assault Daily Mail
Pulling Back on Title IX Enforcement Inside Higher Ed
Institutions appear to be cracking down on big-name professors in sexual harassment cases Inside Higher Ed
U.S. Asks Court to Put Hold on Lawsuit as It Reviews 2011 Title IX Guidance Chronicle of Higher Ed
Lawsuits From Students Accused of Sex Assault Cost Many Colleges More Than $200,000 Chronicle of Higher Ed
Taylor Swift's sexual assault testimony takes aim at one of the most persistent sexist myths today Quartz
How Schools Handle Title IX Cases for K-12 Students The Atlantic
***STUDENT MEDIA
Journalism groups rally behind UCSD student media against retaliatory withdrawal of financial support Student Press Law Center
Snapchat Throws Lifeline To College Papers Media Post
