🎙️ Season 2, Ep. 1 of "By Conduct and Example" dropped today. The pod was joined by @esserfrank.bsky.social Professor at the Univ. of Zurich and Visiting Scholar with the CSD, to discuss challenges for global democracies and his observations from a front row seat to the 2024 U.S. election. 🗳️ 👇

The CSD looks forward to welcoming former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Antonia Novello on April 14th for a discussion on the importance of public service to the success of our communities.

Understanding current leadership approaches requires an understanding of attention environment dynamics. CSD director @joshscacco.bsky.social explains to @politico.com how attention management is critical to President Trump’s messaging approaches.

After a busy 2024, the CSD is continuing its efforts to understand and foster a local, national, and international community deeply connected to the transformative possibilities of democracy. Check out the video to see what we have been up to!

How to protect democracies from falsehoods? By empowering the young with open-source investigation skills, argue @bellingcat.com founder @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social from @cmpcr.bsky.social in this new piece reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-pro...

Relevant and bracing survey results about views on democracy from my colleague @joshscacco.bsky.social

The CSD stands ready to partner with medical professionals on developing approaches that center public health and key democratic processes, such as information quality, institutional trust, and difficult conversations.

📰 Harassment and threats against journalists undermine the ability of reporters to spotlight those in and check political power. 🗞️ Our recent report offers recommendations for journalists and newsrooms to protect the safety of press officials.

Fantastic starter pack to build community around digital democracy! Thanks for including us @ddc-sdu.bsky.social!!

Welcome to all of our new followers! We conduct research and engage on topics related to political leadership, information and content environments, and how communities connect to democracy. We are a Florida-based research center with national and international reach. Let’s build community!

Partisan rancor is a BIG challenge. Our @sustaindemocracy.bsky.social survey found that six-in-ten Americans see the party opposed to their political views as "hurting America" or "knowingly sabotaging the country."

For all of our new community members--our Center has a podcast! "By Conduct and Example" talks w/ the people who do the research and practice of democracy. We have discussed (so far) news practices, info quality and integrity, and combatting threats to democracy's guardians.

For all of our new community members--our Center has a podcast! "By Conduct and Example" talks w/ the people who do the research and practice of democracy. We have discussed (so far) news practices, info quality and integrity, and combatting threats to democracy's guardians.

Welcome to all of our new followers! We conduct research and engage on topics related to political leadership, information and content environments, and how communities connect to democracy. We are a Florida-based research center with national and international reach. Let’s build community!

📊 📊 State of Democracy and the 2024 Election: Americans Very Interested in Election Despite Concerns about Democracy in America 🗳️ 🗳️ ▶️ Majority say democracy is "not working." ▶️ A third support a 'strong leader' form of govt. ▶️ Six-in-ten see opposing political party as "sabotaging" America.

Fantastic starter pack to build community around digital democracy! Thanks for including us @ddc-sdu.bsky.social!!

📊 📊 State of Democracy and the 2024 Election: Americans Very Interested in Election Despite Concerns about Democracy in America 🗳️ 🗳️ ▶️ Majority say democracy is "not working." ▶️ A third support a 'strong leader' form of govt. ▶️ Six-in-ten see opposing political party as "sabotaging" America.

📊 🗳️ We've commissioned a nationally representative survey of voter attitudes about democracy and election 2024. The YouGov survey reached 1,400 U.S. adults (1,280 registered voters) in September with follow-ups of the same individuals in mid-October. Stay tuned for results beginning 11/4.

"He felt like he was being followed…There were some funny things that were happening with his bank accounts and his access to the accounts." 💡 💡 White paper: Our latest white paper looks at harassment faced by journalists. Important work from @acadianjprof.bsky.social, Aya Diab, and Zakaria Khan.

As CSD programming and research activities return following the impacts of Hurricane Helene and Milton, we are reminded of the effects of societal misinformation for democracy, health, and communities. Factcheck.org breaks down the bad content about the hurricanes that have the southern US reeling.

🎙️ 🎙️ New episode of "By Conduct and Example" drops today featuring insights from Zeeshan Ali, a researcher w/ Princeton Bridging Divides Initiative and USF alum. Zeeshan talks about political threats and violence, including how BDI is working to document such anti-democratic acts.

The CSD welcomes Dr. @esserfrank.bsky.social as a visiting research fellow. Dr. Esser is currently researching the cross-national factors that make societies resilient to anti-democratic attitudes and movements. #democracy #politics #communication #misinformation #disinformation #incivility