Using Facial Recognition To Understand the Gender Dynamics of Congressional News Coverage

• In Event: Audio and Images as Data

Brief Overview

Using a facial recognition algorithm built around a novel neural network, we explore when/where MCs appear on over 12,000 hours of cable news footage. More specifically, we determine whether female MCs are shown in a different light.

Authors

• Bryce Jensen Dietrich, University of Iowa

• Hyein Ko, University of Iowa