Our faculty, students, and staff have had an active presence in the media through articles that have featured our group or our work — ranging from VICE News to The New York Times' coverage of our landmark Science article to a TED Talk with millions of views.
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We are now grappling with some of the most serious threats to democracy since our nation’s founding, with many across the political spectrum agreeing that America’s “experiment in democracy” is in trouble. Can we trace at least some of the threat to the Constitution itself? Are there ways CCC and like-minded organizations might help address this threat? On September 13, we invited CCC advisor Martha Minow, the 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard Law School, and Ceasar McDowell, CCC associate director and associate head of MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, to give their insights Below are excerpts from that discussion.
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“We need to figure out how to give [ourselves] a chance to build up civic muscles,” said Barack Obama in his April 2022 speech on disinformation, mentioning th...
We spend so much of our time online without knowing where we are—or how fragmented we’ve become. Locating ourselves can help us leave our bubble.
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‘The way we’re speaking with others is fundamentally broken. In every measurable way, things are getting more fractured and polarized.’
For more t...
In 2017, after the shock of Brexit and then Donald Trump’s election, Christopher Bail, a professor of sociology and public policy at Duke University, set out to stud...
“As the reporter, whether or not you agree, this is the best way to get the most honest, reliable information… It’s incredible how much you can learn about peopl...
Sunspring debuted at the SCI-FI LONDON film festival in 2016. Set in a dystopian world with mass unemployment, the movie attracted many fans, with one viewer describin...
Our collaborator Cortico, a non-profit founded by CCC leadership, has also been featured in a variety of publications since its launch in 2016.
For the 2020 elections, CapRadio is asking people who live, work and worship in one South Sacramento neighborhood — Meadowview — to share their questions and conce...
As the Police and Fire Commission considers who will be Madison’s next police chief, members of the public will have the chance to weigh in at two upcoming meetings....
They came together late last year, about a dozen Black residents of St. Petersburg, to talk to each other and to the Tampa Bay Times about generational wealth. Generat...
Our Electome project -- a machine-driven mapping and analysis of public sphere content and conversation associated with the 2016 presidential election campaign -- informed many analytic pieces written by our news collaborators and by ourselves.
A new 15-state SurveyMonkey poll conducted with The Washington Post finds Hillary Clinton with a commanding lead over Donald Trump across battleground states three wee...
Nobody knows what issues will decide the 2016 election, because nobody knows what will happen over the next four and a half months. The things people care and talk abo...
We’ve heard a lot of … let’s say, colorful rhetoric this election cycle from US presidential candidates and their supporters.
Now, a team of data scientist...
For decades, news coverage of U.S. presidential elections has been focused on the so-called “horse race” — polls, predicted outcomes, fundraising — rather than...
Whatever you think of Trump’s now notorious comments, they present a case study in the power of social media to alter the national conversation with astonishing forc...
What makes some election news stories go viral online, and others fall flat? Is it simply due to which presidential candidate has a greater (and more vocal) following?...
Welcome to the first issue of the MIT Center for Constructive Communication’s newsletter!
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In coordination with MIT’s Values Statement Committee, CCC is launching RealTalk@MIT, a cross-campus pilot program that will solicit honest perspectives from sta...
A Message from Deb Roy, Director: Thoughts on Elon Musk and Twitter // For me, Elon Musk’s impending takeover of Twitter is a wake-up call. It’s a very real remind...