Indexical Tweets, “A Team Jacob Communications Professor Takes Things Maybe A Little Too Far…” Edition

Highlights, lowlights, links, and a some mostly academic studies from the Icon Index Symbol Twitter stream:

Journal of Comm out for this quarter. Straightforward piece about how press releases drive shoddy science journalism http://is.gd/sMvz4b

Israeli left invites Zizek to rip Israel, Zizek rips them instead. Lesson: don’t invite contrarian to smug activism fest http://is.gd/vpdxWD

Self-esteem pedagogy | RT @brainpicker: This infographic of college grade inflation since 1940 stopped me dead in my tracks http://j.mp/pPDVen

Opps | RT @JSTOR: Adopting the Euro: A Path to Fiscal Sustainability (2005) from Acta Oeconomica, new addition to JSTOR http://bit.ly/jqJ0ZY

RT @lrainie: Rural internet users have caught up to others in accessing YouTube and other video-sharing sites: http://pewrsr.ch/qF5JBe

Computer science is skyrocketing thanks to the social media rush/bubble. NO WAY this goes poorly. Again. http://is.gd/7ofE0d

A Team Jacob Communications professor takes things maybe a little too far http://is.gd/t1LESk