Director, MIT Center for Constructive Communication; Co-Founder, CEO & Chair, Cortico; Professor at MIT
Joined April 2009
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“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.
nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
🤖 Made with AI
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🗣️ 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: arxiv.org/abs/2507.15821
Read about our findings ⤵️
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⭐️ Our newsletter is here!
Discover our latest powerful partnerships, tech advancements, and inspiring new connections.
Read now!
👉mailchi.mp/cortico/june2024
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📢 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: ccc.mit.edu/pressmedia/ccc-a…
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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 🧵
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🎧 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.
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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:
theatlantic.com/technology/a…
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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. ars.electronica.art/who-owns…
ALT S+T+ARTS Day: Residency. But How? Photo: Philipp Greindl
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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
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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.
aspenideas.org/articles/can-…
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New paper 📢📰📺📻: “Language models trained on media diets can predict public opinion”
with @jacobandreas, Stephen Ansolabehere, @dkroy
arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2303.16779
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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. bit.ly/3ZsuBIu
ALT Raney Aronson-Rath profile. Photo courtesy: Rahoul Ghose/PBS.
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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 ccc.mit.edu/gbhs-raney-arons…
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Want to be a RealTalk Community Fellow? We just launched a one-year, non-degree program that brings together community leaders — staff, board members or resident volunteers of community-based orgs to collaborate with us at MIT CCC. Learn + apply at ... ccc.mit.edu/realtalk-communi…
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So great to be able to welcome @dkroy & @jelani9 to @knightcolumbia's board. Excited to have the chance to work with both of them. knightcolumbia.org/content/j…
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Director of @MIT Center for Constructive Communication, @dkroy, explains the ways local newsrooms can leverage their "trust capital" and emerging technology to promote listening and understanding amid disagreement. Learn more 💡 aspeninstitute.org/longform/…
ALT "How Local Journalism Can Bring Communities Together, by Deb Roy." Abstract color blocks in shades of yellow, orange, and blue form a circle that resembles a setting sun. Image includes Roy's headshot, which depicts a person with short hair wearing a collared shirt is positioned in front of a wall looking at the camera.
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🚨🚨 “We need to figure out how to give … us a chance to build up civic muscles” said @BarackObama in his speech today on #disinformation, mentioning the “great work” being done @CCCatMIT in “making online conversations more civil and productive”.
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📢 Research Update: 🌟"Engaging Politically Diverse Audiences on Social Media"🌟 by @msaveski @dougb @clured @dkroy
To appear at International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM '22)!
📜: arxiv.org/abs/2111.02646
👨💻: github.com/msaveski/engaging… [1/] 🧵
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📢 [Center Update] Check out our first CCC Newsletter: ccc.mit.edu/pressmedia/ccc-n…
-> CCC has grown to 40 members!
-> Congratulations to @CeasarMcdowell, our new Associate Director
-> Check out the Real Talk For Change and Real Talk @ MIT initiatives
