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Posted: 17-Mar-24
Location: Syracuse, New York
Salary: Open
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Other - Academic/Faculty
Internal Number: 100256
Job Description:
The Institute for Democracy, Journalism, and Citizenship (IDJC) invites applications for a 2-year Postdoctoral Researcher position. Located in Washington, D.C., the IDJC, is a newly launched joint venture between the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. In its inaugural year, the research division of the IDJC is launching several large-scale research projects addressing questions about the drivers and consequences of critical threats to democracy. These threats – trends of mistrust in the press and political institutions, affective partisan polarization, and rampant exposure and susceptibility to mis- and disinformation – are linked to a growing disregard for democratic norms, and even tolerance for mistreatment and political violence toward out-partisans. While aspects of the digital and social media environment may play a role in some of these trends, we know surprisingly little about how they operate in tandem with individual and system level characteristics to exacerbate such trends and encourage anti-democratic tendencies and beliefs. Without a better understanding of such processes, we have little hope of providing actionable solutions.
Overview of Projects
Our large-scale data intensive projects will focus on the inter-relationships between four key sets of contributors: media (including their systems and infrastructures), institutional and electoral contexts, citizens, and political elites. Broadly, we want to understand how these operate to influence representation, democratic responsiveness, the salience of political identity, civic engagement, affective polarization, citizen trust and satisfaction, and adherence to (or disregard for) democratic norms.
Together these projects will require several large scale data collection efforts, some sub-national and others cross-national. We will use a variety of approaches to collect data on attitudes and behavior, including a mixture of lab, field, and lab in the field experiments, as well as survey and interview methods. We will also collect other forms of observational data such as data on media content and use, characteristics of political and media institutions, and infrastructures for communication technology spanning media markets, localities, and states. We will supplement our larger-n studies with in depth qualitative methodologies like interviews and focus groups.
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