Deb Roy

Congratulations to Deb Roy for being inducted into MIT's Quarter Century Club

Deb Roy is a member of the 2024 class of inductees

FRONTLINE Launches Youth Civic Voices Initiative

A new collab with the MIT Center for Constructive Communication empowers young people to shape the future of journalism and civic dialogue

Brains, fashion, alien life, and more: Highlights from the Cambridge Science Festival

Organized by the MIT Museum, the 2024 celebration of science, technology, and culture was the largest in its history.

How to make social media, online life less of ‘dumpster fire’

Media Lab Professor Deb Roy, Media Lab alum Dr. danah boyd, and other experts consider ways to improve online space and conversations.

Mind and Machine: Dr. Deb Roy at the MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Professor Deb Roy discusses his approach to creating spaces for listening and understanding in an age of polarization.

The internet could be so good. Really.

For The Atlantic, Professor Deb Roy, director of the MIT Center for Constructive Communication, imagines a new kind of social network.

Media Lab research highlighted by MIT News in its wrap-ups of 2023 press coverage

The Media Lab is honored to have had its research and researchers highlighted in two 2023 end-of-year lists prepared by MIT News.

Research Group Overview: MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society.

Collective Echos at Ars Electronica Festival 2023

Human-AI Systems for Dialogue and Listening

Who Owns the Truth? | CCC at Ars Electronica 2023

The MIT CCC participated in this year's Ars Electronica festival from September 6–10, 2023.

MIT scholars awarded seed grants to probe the social implications of generative AI

The 27 finalists will explore the technology’s impact on democracy, education, sustainability, communications, and much more.

MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication takes aim at the destructive nature of social media

Jelani Cobb and Deb Roy Join Knight Institute Board

The Knight Institute was established by Columbia University and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in 2016.

Can Technology Help Humans Listen?

Deb Roy, director of the MIT Center for Constructive Communication, discusses his research and how technology can be used for social good.

“You are here because you belong here”

President Reif and faculty members welcome the Class of 2026 to MIT.

The Internet Needs You-Are-Here Maps

In Wired, Deb Roy, director of the MIT CCC, and postdoc Nabeel Gillani make the case for "you-are-here" maps for the internet.

The data-driven future of storytelling: MIT’s Deb Roy on the message and the medium

Deb Roy talks to McKinsey about the many ways audience, voice, and medium combine to create compelling stories.

Better democracy through technology

Can machines make us better citizens and conversationalists? Deb Roy thinks so.

Systems scientists find clues to why false news snowballs on social media

A new model shows that the more polarized and hyperconnected a social network is, the more likely misinformation will spread.

MIT’s Deb Roy analyzes divisions caused by social media-dominated world

In a recent lecture, Deb Roy discussed social media, democracy, and the continuing importance of local, in-person conversations.

Deb Roy Interview: Misinformation and Social Media

Deb Roy talks to Amina Asim about the ways misinformation spreads on social media and what kinds of damage it can cause.

Media Lab Perspectives: Listening to Disrupt with Katherine Cramer

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Deb Roy named to Aspen Institute Commission on Information Disorder

The Commission's members are drawn from government, research and academia, civil society, public service, and private industry.

Study shows online school reviews reflect school demographics more than effectiveness

Language analysis reveals possible reinforcement of race- and income-based achievement gap.

Biden wants to unite the country. How can he do it?

Two dozen experts, including Deb Roy, offer bold ideas for a new administration in a fractious era.

MIT launches Center for Constructive Communication

The cross-campus effort will design human-machine systems that improve communication across divides.

A Matter of Facts podcast: MIT's Deb Roy on Twitter

Deb Roy talks to Delaware Public Media about social media, the spread of misinformation, trolling and abuse, content moderation, and more.

Out of the lab and into the world

E14 Venture Summit celebrates the diversity of spinoff companies from the Media Lab.

#38 Robots to the Rescue

StoryLine: Exploring the intersection of visual storytelling and machine learning

McKinsey & Co. and LSM ask: Can we understand, and even predict, the relationship between video story content and audience consumption?

10+ years of Human 2.0

Revisit Human 2.0, a 2007 Media Lab symposium focused on the future of human adaptability.

Fear, surprise, disgust: Fake news spreads faster than some real news on Twitter

Plus: A big overview of all the research that we have so far.

Study finds false stories travel way faster than the truth

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How Lies Spread Online

The spread of misinformation on social media is an alarming phenomenon that scientists have yet to fully understand. While the data show th…

AI is working to make moviegoers more emotional

An AI algorithm can predict which parts of a film will generate the greatest emotional responses in audiences.

Five tools to rebuild trust in media

Helping readers slow down, ask questions, and find reasoned opposing views may foster civil discourse online

AI is learning how to make you cry at the movies

New research can predict how plots, images, and music affect your emotions while watching a movie.

AI in storytelling: Machines as cocreators

Computers don’t cry during sad stories, but they can tell when we will.

A team of MIT scientists taught an AI to get emotional over movies

Artificial intelligence (AI) may not be ready to write the next blockbuster movie, but a team of AI researchers from the Massachusetts…

Big problems, big data solutions

At EmTech 2017, Deb Roy discusses how insights gained from big data and machine learning can help us monitor the social impact of new techn…