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Deb Roy

Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
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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.
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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.
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Research Group Overview: MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society.
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Collective Echos at Ars Electronica Festival 2023

Human-AI Systems for Dialogue and Listening
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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.
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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.
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MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication takes aim at the destructive nature of social media

MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication takes aim at the destructive nature of social media
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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.
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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.
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“You are here because you belong here”

President Reif and faculty members welcome the Class of 2026 to MIT.
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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.
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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.
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Better democracy through technology

Can machines make us better citizens and conversationalists? Deb Roy thinks so.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Media Lab Perspectives: Listening to Disrupt with Katherine Cramer

Thursday May 27, 2021 …
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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.
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Study shows online school reviews reflect school demographics more than effectiveness

Language analysis reveals possible reinforcement of race- and income-based achievement gap.
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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.
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MIT launches Center for Constructive Communication

The cross-campus effort will design human-machine systems that improve communication across divides.
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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.
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Out of the lab and into the world

E14 Venture Summit celebrates the diversity of spinoff companies from the Media Lab.
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#38 Robots to the Rescue
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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?
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10+ years of Human 2.0

Revisit Human 2.0, a 2007 Media Lab symposium focused on the future of human adaptability.
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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.
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Study finds false stories travel way faster than the truth

Read the full story online.
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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…
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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.
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Five tools to rebuild trust in media

Helping readers slow down, ask questions, and find reasoned opposing views may foster civil discourse online
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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.
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AI in storytelling: Machines as cocreators

Computers don’t cry during sad stories, but they can tell when we will.
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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…
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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…
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MLTalks: Nichole Pinkard and Deb Roy

Education, Technology, Equity: Nichole Pinkard and Deb Roy in conversation with J. Philipp Schmidt.
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Media Lab Announces New Center for Future Banking
March 31, 2008
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Big Brother Untangles Baby Babble
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Games that Design Themselves
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Bluefin Lab’s Software to Scan Sports Video
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Sci-Fi Becomes the New Reality

One wallet becomes more difficult to open as its owner’s bank account runs low on money; another wallet swells and shrinks, depending on th…