Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

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

Robots would be much more helpful if they spoke our language.

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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MIT has developed an extension that allows knowing the emotional impact caused by the content that everyone creates and consumes on Twitter.

US elections have become more “unstable,” sometimes swinging in the opposite direction from the greater electorate’s preferences.

Political science doctoral student Clara Vandeweerdt studies how identity shapes beliefs on complex political topics such as climate change.

But research shows online polarization isn’t as clear-cut as people think.

Andrew Heyward has a plan for finding and identifying innovation in local TV news.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

As the media class struggles to understand an election result few foresaw, some have blamed a quirk of modern technology.