Deb Roy

Director, MIT Center for Constructive Communication; Co-Founder, CEO & Chair, Cortico; Professor at MIT

[Deb Roy @dkroy]

MIT announces Center for Constructive Communication!!

We will create new spaces for underheard voices & nuanced perspectives, design communication tools & methods for beneficial impact in collaboration with communities, influencers & organizations.

https://t.co/QMPIBXsjGB

[Suyash Fulay @suyashfulay]

“I feel like my timeline has gotten way more polarizing and toxic over the last few years…”

If you feel this way, fear not! You’re not alone, and the data supports you.

In a study now published in @SciReports with @dkroy, we collected over 2 billion comments from Reddit and Twitter/X and analyzed levels of polarizing rhetoric over the past fifteen years to perform (to our knowledge) one of the largest computational studies of political rhetoric on social media.

https://t.co/Co7UOpqhIi

[Hope Schroeder @Schropes]

🗣️ Excited to share our new #ACL2025 Findings paper: “Just Put a Human in the Loop? Investigating LLM-Assisted Annotation for Subjective Tasks” with @jad_kabbara and @dkroy. Arxiv: https://t.co/FeWQLQxt5K
Read about our findings ⤵️

[Deb Roy @dkroy]

A new way to have real conversations https://t.co/0htn0DYJUb

[Cortico @cortico]

⭐️ Our newsletter is here!

Discover our latest powerful partnerships, tech advancements, and inspiring new connections.

Read now!
👉https://t.co/oisv8mjX86

[Deb Roy @dkroy]

My daughter and her friend (whose direct family was impacted by cancer), both in high school, cofounded this online art shop to support cancer research. I hope you can take a look at the beautiful artifacts made by them for a cause important to all of us: https://t.co/nFcVNJTMmn

[MIT Center for Constructive Communication @CCCatMIT]

📢 We’re proud to announce our collaboration with @DemocracyNext to prototype and pilot new technologies for a tech-enhanced Citizens Assembly.

🔍 Learn more about Citizens’ Assemblies and about the collaboration on our website: https://t.co/Xr7fk91S7b

[Cortico @cortico]

BIG news!

At Cortico, our mission is to restore trust across communities, divides, and America. Today, we're thrilled to share a remarkable achievement we've been part of, in collaboration with @americanacad 🧵

[MIT Center for Constructive Communication @CCCatMIT]

🎧 Need a podcast recommendation? Listen to "On With Kara Swisher" @karaswisher and her podcast episode featuring @alexisohanian and CCC Director @dkroy discussing Big Tech’s Effects on Democracy.

https://t.co/mNK8H20uJ7

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

What would it take for the internet to live up to its early promise of making democratic societies better? @dkroy has been studying the question and innovating for years. Here is his report:

https://t.co/fbwcRtengs

[Evan Smith @evanasmith]

.⁦@karaswisher⁩ ⁦@dkroy⁩ ⁦@alexisohanian⁩ at kickoff of ⁦@UVADemocracy⁩’s Democracy 360 #txlege

[Ars Electronica @ArsElectronica]

This year’s @startseu Conference program brings together many exciting speakers like @_KarenHao, @F_Kaltheuner, @dkroy, @GiadaPistilli and @Bernd_Fesel! Thu 7. Sep 2023 11:00 - 17:00 at POSTCITY conference hall. https://t.co/7h3mJ1sTh5

[MIT Center for Constructive Communication @CCCatMIT]

This past Wednesday, MIT CCC RAs Maggie Hughes @_maggatronn , Naana Obeng-Marnu @naana_om, Cassandra Lee @cassandranlee along with audio engineer Spencer Russell were hard at work setting up a demo of “Collective Echos,” at the MIT Media Lab @medialab

[Aspen Ideas @aspenideas]

We caught up with @dkroy about building healthier digital forums, how humans and machines might work best together, and why A.I. is a critical tool for civic engagement.
https://t.co/V2IR8UdIqo

[Deb Roy @dkroy]

MIT Center for Constructive Communication + Cortico  has launched effort to develop trusted spaces for meaningful, nonpolarizing human connection and civic impact w/ $21M in new commitments. Grateful to Project Liberty and others for their support. https://t.co/NvTGTbZH2I

[Eric Chu @its_ericchu]

New paper 📢📰📺📻: “Language models trained on media diets can predict public opinion”

with @jacobandreas, Stephen Ansolabehere, @dkroy

arxiv: https://t.co/ajGoXgc3Mv

🧵 1/

[Deb Roy @dkroy]

My thoughts on the meaning of ChatGPT, LLMs, and generative AI as it relates to @cortico's work on real talk and real listening. https://t.co/CarvBrPgUN

[Deb Roy @dkroy]

I am so excited about the possibilities ahead in deepening our work with @raneyaronson and @frontlinepbs!

[MIT Center for Constructive Communication @CCCatMIT]

We’re delighted to announce @raneyaronson as CCC journalist-in-residence. Raney will continue her leadership roles as editor-in-chief and executive producer of @GBH’s @frontlinepbs. https://t.co/1Qnw2Xxiss 1/4

[GBH @GBH]

Editor-in-Chief and Exec. Producer @raneyaronson of @GBH's @frontlinepbs has been named journalist-in-residence at @CCCatMIT. While continuing on with FRONTLINE, she will help the CCC at MIT team to understand competing and false narratives in the media. https://t.co/iOQUee9kSd

[Raney Aronson-Rath @raneyaronson]

Pleased to announce our new @frontlinepbs partnership with @CCCatMIT. @frontlinepbs began collaborating w/ CCC over 5 years ago, trying to understand how media information bubbles lead to political polarization. I'm thrilled to continue that work w/ @dkroy https://t.co/Nqj31BsOpY