CCC and Google Xi Launch “New Social Forms”

What are the structural building blocks of how people come together—and how do different configurations shape what groups can actually do together? Many of the forms…

Study: AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users

Large language models have been championed as tools that could democratize access to information worldwide, offering knowledge in a user-friendly interface regardless of…

Boston Stories, Unscripted

On the evening of November 10, 2025, more than 150 Bostonians came together with members from the MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) for the realtalk@Boston…

Meet Boston, Unscripted: realtalk@Boston Portal Goes Live

What does Boston sound like when you stop to listen? Today, realtalk@Boston invites you to do just that—with the launch of a new public-facing portal where you can l…

Reimagining Civil Discourse for the Next Generation

This past summer, the MIT Center for Constructive Communication, its closely affiliated non profit, Cortico, and GBH’s FRONTLINE hosted 11 Boston students, ages 16 -21…

Discovering the Future of WRAP via realtalk Conversations

In Spring 2025, realtalk@MIT partnered with WRAP (the MIT Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication Program) to support groups of lecturers in reflecting on their…

PBS’s FRONTLINE, Cortico, and CCC to engage youth in new Youth Civic Voices initiative

FRONTLINE, the acclaimed PBS documentary series produced at GBH in Boston, has announced the launch of a two-phase Youth Civic Voices Initiative designed to engage young…

Checking in on realtalk@Boston, one year in

The MIT Center for Constructive Communication, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has been training local community leaders to host facilitated convers…

CCC launches a inaugural student advisory board

MIT CCC is launching a student advisory board to help shape its ongoing research as well as student programming via realtalk@MIT. This group of undergraduates will contri…

Study: Some language reward models exhibit political bias

Large language models (LLMs) that drive generative artificial intelligence apps, such as ChatGPT, have been proliferating at lightning speed and have improved to the poin…

CCC Newsletter, Issue 13 (Spring/Summer 2026)

Realtalk about MIT funding, words without consequence, Foraging for conversation themes, conference presentations and much more.

CCC Newsletter, Issue 12 (Fall/Winter 2025)

As the US approaches its 250th anniversary, the National Conference on Citizenship is launching an ambitious initiative: the American Conversation Project. The effort see…

CCC Newsletter, Issue 11 (Spring/Summer 2025)

FRONTLINE collaboration, realtalk@MIT updates, & more

CCC Newsletter, Issue 10 (Fall/Winter 2024)

Bridging Dictionary Launch, realtalk@MIT Pilot, Welcome Audrey Tang and Michiel Bakke, & more.

CCC Newsletter, Issue 9 (Spring/Summer 2024)

Second annual CCC Symposium, realtalk@MIT and realtalk@Boston Updates, & more.

CCC Newsletter, Issue 8 (Winter 2024)

RealTalk@MIT: Moving Toward a “Listening Campus,” Deb Roy article in The Atlantic, Three successful CCC course offerings during MIT IAP

CCC Newsletter, Issue 7 (Fall 2023)

CCC at Ars Electronica 2023, Josh Flax joins CCC, Five new graduate students, DemocracyNext collaboration, and more.

CCC Newsletter, Issue 6

On May 10, CCC hosted its first in-person event: Real Talk, Real Listening, and Trust in the Age of Social Media and Generative AI, New Initiative Announced, Cited on Cap…

CCC Newsletter, Issue 5

FRONTLINE’s Raney Aronson-Rath Joins CCC, Facilitated Conversations at Freeport High in Maine: Making a Difference, Deb Roy on ChatGPT

CCC Newsletter, Issue 4

Martha Minow and Ceasar McDowell on the Constitution, Built-in Inequities, and Where We Go From Here…, Offering Solutions: Local News as an Antidote to Toxic Social Med…

CCC Newsletter, Issue 3

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 reminder…

CCC Newsletter, Issue 2

In coordination with MIT’s Values Statement Committee, CCC is launching RealTalk@MIT, a cross-campus pilot program that will solicit honest perspectives from staff, stude…

CCC Newsletter, Issue 1

Welcome to the first issue of the MIT Center for Constructive Communication’s newsletter!

CCC and Google Xi Launch “New Social Forms”

What are the structural building blocks of how people come together—and how do different configurations shape what groups can actually do together? Many of the forms…

Study: AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users

Large language models have been championed as tools that could democratize access to information worldwide, offering knowledge in a user-friendly interface regardless of…

Words Without Consequence | Deb Roy | The Atlantic

For the first time, speech has been decoupled from consequence. We now live alongside AI systems that converse knowledgeably and persuasively—deploying claims about the…

We’re Hiring

CCC is seeking a student to assist with full stack and/or hardware development to help create AI-mediated social interfaces over the spring semester. 

Boston Stories, Unscripted

On the evening of November 10, 2025, more than 150 Bostonians came together with members from the MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) for the realtalk@Boston…

Meet Boston, Unscripted: realtalk@Boston Portal Goes Live

What does Boston sound like when you stop to listen? Today, realtalk@Boston invites you to do just that—with the launch of a new public-facing portal where you can l…