Adam Hughes is a computational social scientist at Pew Research Center. He uses data science tools to investigate communication, behavior and public opinion. His research also evaluates the promise and pitfalls of emerging methodological approaches. He is a contributing author to reports about partisan conflict in Congressional outreach and the ways that members of Congress share news with online audiences. Hughes received his Ph.D. in government from the University of Virginia, where he used natural language processing, survey experiments and television broadcast data to measure how political communication shapes political behavior and attitudes. His work appears in academic journals such as Public Administration Review, Research and Politics and The Journal of Political Marketing.
News photos posted by national outlets on Facebook consistently feature more men than women. A majority of photos with people exclusively show men.
