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Analogia is a game for sharing honest and sometimes challenging stories using a combination of talking prompts and absurd images. The cards…
Emergence, when an entity is observed to have properties its parts do not have on their own, is an awe inducing phenomenon seen within natu…
A robust and resilient communication infrastructure is essential to the development of democratic processes and knowledge formation. Decent…
Computer-mediated forms of communication (i.e., social media, texting) have quickly become the predominant way that we keep in touch w…
In January 2023, a team led by MIT PhD Candidate and MIT CCC Research Assistant Belén Saldías hosted several workshops on Human-Center…
In an effort to design alternatives to opinion-based discourse at scale online that exploded with polarization, toxicity, and misinformatio…
Al·che·my is the process of transformation, creation, and combination. It is in this conceptual space that we frame the convergence of huma…
The Community Dialogue Data Trust (CODIDT) is an interactive digital platform designed to empower participants in facilitated dialogues wit…
Many community organizations want to engage in conversations with their constituents but lack the support they need to analyze feedback. Mo…
CommunityLM is a research program from MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) and MIT Media Lab. We are devoted to developing soci…
Spoken language is an information-rich medium that combines words with various paralinguistic information such as emotion and prosody. In d…
During facilitated small-group conversations, facilitators have to manage many tasks, including handling the technology, managin…
As part of its recommendations to increase transparency, the Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder recommended – in its…
Identity spans multiple dimensions; however, the relative salience of a dimension of identity can vary markedly from person to person. …
A revolutionary new piece of civic infrastructure for more inclusive public input.Real Talk for Change is a collaboration between MIT’s Cen…
Focus groups are a core methodology in audience research for bringing people together to discuss an issue of concern; however, it has been …
Twitter provides a space for both social and broadcast communication; a tweet by a celebrity can reach millions of users, some of whom may …
How might we collect rich and complex data from community dialogues, analyze and make sense of that data? How might we design outputs …
Across most school districts in America, school attendance boundaries play an important role in determining which schools children are assi…