Adam G. Hughes is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Emporia State University, where he teaches a variety of communication courses, studies rhetoric, media, and technology, and practices digital and analog photography. Under the guidance of advisor Dr. Antonio de Velasco, Dr. Hughes completed the rhetoric & media studies Ph.D. program at the University of Memphis, graduating in December 2022. His dissertation, titled “Glitched Rhetorics: Online Deliberation of New Technology”, examines the digital rhetorics employed in public deliberation of the prominent virtual assistant Alexa and the first cryptocurrency Bitcoin. Previously, Dr. Hughes completed an M.A. in Communication at Virginia Tech, and a B.A. in Communication at NC State.
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