What are you reading? – 12 December 2019
Our fortnightly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Fake News vs Media Studies, by Julian McDougall
Suzanne Franks is unconvinced by the latest attempt to fight back against the symptoms of our post-truth world
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Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control, by Stuart Russell
John Gilbey is impressed by a bold attempt to assess just where AI is likely to lead us
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Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture, edited by Murray Fraser
Book of the week: Barnabas Calder applauds a bold attempt to assemble all the world’s architecture under one roof
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Trump tells universities to halt campus criticism of Israel
Pro-Palestine group brands order a ‘dangerous, authoritarian attempt to silence student activism’
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A lot rides on their journeys
Chinese students’ economic contributions aren’t always matched by the support they get. More must be done to understand and integrate this group
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Mad Muse: The Mental Illness Memoir in a Writer’s Life and Work, by Jeffrey Berman
Matthew Broome considers what psychiatrists can learn from the sheer variety of memoirs about mental illness
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Filmed Thought: Cinema as Reflective Form, by Robert B. Pippin
Lucy Bolton enjoys a sharp new analysis of getting philosophical about the cinema
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Competition regulator challenges publishing giants’ union
Australian authority the latest to review planned merger of Cengage and McGraw-Hill
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The week in higher education – 12 December 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Interview with Meg Crofoot
Pioneer of ‘movement ecology’ explains how the new-found ability to track individual animals is leading to fresh insights about their behaviour and societies
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Elite universities ‘will need 100 years’ to hit OfS access goals
Expansion of places and radical changes to admissions required or England’s most selective universities may face regulator’s penalties, analysis suggests
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New network to teach universities how to invest ethically
Initiative aims to expand the debate about endowments beyond divestment to wider social responsibilities
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Chinese scholars ‘show mixed responses’ to ‘cash for articles’
Some academics feel incentives do not reflect that motivation for research comes from ‘the pursuit of knowledge’, says researcher
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Funding PhDs for four years ‘being considered’ by UK council
Economic and Social Research Council may provide four years of PhD funding amid concerns over stress caused by three-year model