T&T Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Trust In Ephemeral Content In Social Media Platforms: A Mixed-Method Approach Examining Online Users’ Privacy Concerns In The Case Of Snapchat, ream Al-Ghamdi
Transformative Pedagogies Through Iterative Instructional Design, Nikki F. Barnes
Netflix and the Platformization of Film and Television Content Discovery, Jacob Boccio
Emojis as Text Technology: Between Visual Paradigm and Cultural Revolution, Hanan Hafiz
The Unindexed Marginalia of Historical American Cookery Books Digital Public History Project: Domestic Technical Communication Labor Contributions, Alessandra Zinicola Lopez
Ethical Concerns And Consumer Perceptions Of Fairness In Gamified Customer Loyalty Programs, Shelley Maccini
Analysis of Queerness and Race in Black Lightning and DCTV Femslash, Rachel Marks
The Path of Peace: Non-Violent Methods of Play in Indie Video Game History, Ryu R. Yamamoto
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Contextualizing TikTok Controversies: Critical Discourse Analysis of Platform Privacy Debates, Bshaer Kameil Aharazi
Software Company Workplace Bias in Technical Communication, Amanda Altamirano
Prompt Engineering: Toward a Rhetoric and Poetics for Neural Network Augmented Authorship in Composition and Rhetoric, Christopher Foley
Crusading for Fun and Profit: An Examination of Ludohistorical Mode in the Crusader Kings Community, Kirk M. Lundblade
Empathy in Digital Healthcare, Michael R. Powell
A Pandemic in the Educational Sphere: Collecting and Understanding Students' Responses to University Communication on COVID-19, Matthew R. Stapleton
An Exploration of mHealth Applications Usage Among Older Adults: A Mixed Methods Study, Francine N. Sutton
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Studying Memes During Covid Lockdown as a Lens Through Which to Understand Video-Mediated Communication Interactions, Tatyana Claytor
"Do You Want to Build with Snowman?": Positioning Twine Story Formats Through Critical Code Study, Daniel Cox
Narrating the Fragmenting Brain: Alzheimer's Disease Neuronarratives, Bonnie Cross
"It is in our DNA": Athlete Activism and Social Media Discourse During the 2020 WNBA Season, Kendra Gilbertson
Fostering Empathy in SMS Text Messaging, Tami C. Gitto-Kania
Writing About Reflecting About Teaching: The Circulation of Writing About Writing with Pedagogical Implications, Emily Hensley
Site, Sight, Swipe, Prada Marfa: A Case Study in Public Art, Cultural Tourism, and Image-Based Social Media Engagement, Ha'ani Joy Hogan
Mapping the Focal Points of WordPress: A Software and Critical Code Analysis, Bryce Jackson
Activist-Casual Game Design: Iterating Serious Games Through Research-Creation, Daniel J. King
The Women's Wood Engraving Revival and its Global Impact (1912-1960): Gwen Raverat, Clare Leighton, and Joan Hassall, Abigail Moreshead
Planeswalking: Magic: The Gathering Across Analog and Digital Platforms, Jack Murray
Justice for George Floyd: The Tipping Point?, Christopher C. Odom
"But I Can't Forget": Media and Fannish Representations of Superheroes with PTSD, Lauren Rouse
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
The Nine Lives of Ula Stöckl: Recovering Germany's First Feminist Filmmaker, Rachel Braaten
No More Pencils, No More Books: A One-to-One Digital Device Implementation and Its Effect on the Digital Divide, Theresa Gindlesperger
Seeing the Unseen: Interactive Narrative as a Tool for Understanding Invisible Disabilities, Jesslyn Parrish
Creating a Reverberating Beat: Digital Curation of the Women Writers of the Beat Generation, Elena Maria Rogalle
Methodology of Augmented Reality Chinese Language Articulatory Pronunciation Practice: Game and Study Design, Daria Sinyagovskaya
Digital Humanities & Community College Libraries: Opportunities and Challenges, Mia Tignor
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Pixelated Domes: Cinematic Code Changes through a Frank Lloyd Wright Lens, William Allen
Immersion's Relationship to Enjoyment in Gaming, Ronald Ray Eddy
Paradigmatic Change and Its Effect on the Collection and Cataloging of LGBTQAI+ Literature in the Elementary School Library, Linda Garrison
The Ethos of Vaccine-Related Discussions in Online Public Spaces, Carolyn Glasshoff
How Twitter Exposes Daily Whiteness Practices in Mexico and Argentina, Erika Maribel Heredia
Critical Modding: A Design Framework for Exploring Representation in Games, Kenton Howard
Bringing Instagram Posts into Being: A Study of FYC Students' Self-Sponsored Posting Practices and Transfer Opportunities, Jessica Kester
Canvas Course Design and the Effects on Faculty Workload and Stress During COVID-19, Christine Kugelmann
Perceived Impacts of Collaborative Technology on Grant Writing Teams: Collaboration, Productivity, and Quality of Writing, Joshua Roney
From Screen to Shining Screen: Representations of YouTube as a Democratic Platform for a Community of Authentic Creators, Emily Tarvin
Signals as Symbols: Applying Normalization of Deviance to Improve User-Centered Design, Amy Vanschaik
Political Fandom and Social Media: A Case Study of the Texas 2018 Senate Race, Rachel Winter
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Examining the Design and Usability of Telemedicine Communications: A Mixed-methods Study, Jessica Campbell
Discursive Trick Effects: How Raced and Gendered Semiotics in Industry Media Undermine Equal Representation in the Cybersecurity Workforce, Patricia Thomas
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
The Feminine Margin: The Re-Imagining of One Professor's Rhetorical Pedagogy--A Curriculum Project, Camila Alvarez
Mapping Addiction: A Digital Psychogeographic Approach to America's Addiction Epidemic, Clayton Benjamin
Acoustic Ecology and Sound Mapping the University of Central Florida Main Campus, Robert Clarke
Latinx Student Success in Higher Education: Genres, Racialization, and Generic-Racial Interactions., Delia Garcia
Power to the People: Responsible Facilitation in Co-Creative Story-Making, Amanda Hill
Measuring Player Perceptions of Freedom and Control in Modded and Unmodded Versions of Bethesda's Skyrim: A Qualitative Play Study, Mark Kretzschmar
Moving Towards a Dialogic Pedagogy: Using Video Feedback as a Teaching Tool to Respond to Writing across Disciplines, Paul Martin
The Heralds of the Dawn: A History of the Motion Picture Industry in the State of Florida, 1908-2019, David Morton
Hearing the Voices of the Deserters: Activist Critical Making in Electronic Literature, Laura Okkema
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Exploring a Three-Dimensional Narrative Medium: The Theme Park as "De Sprookjessprokkelaar," The Gatherer and Teller of Stories, Carissa Baker
Learning Spaces are WAC: Investigating How Classroom Space Design Influences Student Disciplinary Identities, Landon Berry
Using Hashtags to Disambiguate Aboutness in Social Media Discourse: A Case Study of #OrlandoStrong, Nicholas DeArmas
Celebrities, Fans, and Queering Gender Norms: A Critical Examination of Lady Gaga's, Nicki Minaj's, and Fans' Use of Instagram, Brandy Dieterle
The Resonance and Residue of the First African American Newspaper: How Freedom's Journal Created Space in the Early 19th Century, Valerie Kasper
Digital Citizenship Tools for Cause-Based Campaigns: A Broadened Spectrum of Social Media Engagement and Participation-Scale Methodology, Jennifer Miller
Emergent Narrative: Stories of Play, Playing with Stories, Eric Murnane
Reimagining Composition One as a Course in Storytelling Across Disciplines Using New Media, Angel O'Keeffe
Touching the Unreal: The Definition, Narrative Strategies, and Aesthetics of 3D Cartoon Narratives., Nathan Snow
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Nam June Paik and Avant-Garde as Pedagogy: Promoting Student Engagement and Interdisciplinary Thinking in the Undergraduate Humanities Classroom, Marci Mazzarotto
Digital Dissonance: Horror Cultures in the Age of Convergent Technologies, Daniel Powell
School Has a Bad Storyline: Gamification in Educational Environments, Irene L. Pynn
Noise Thinks the Anthropocene: An Experiment in Noise Poetics, Aaron Zwintscher
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
From Ashes To Ashé: Memorializing Traumatic Events Through Participatory Digital Archives, Patricia Carlton
Dining with the Cyborgs: Disembodied Consumption and the Rhetoric of Food Media in the Digital Age, Maggie Cotto
Exploring Repurposing Across Contexts: How Adolescents' New Literacies Practices Can Inform Understandings about Writing-Related Transfer, Cynthia Mitchell
Sherlock Fandom Online: Toward an Ethic of Advocacy, Jennifer Wojton
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Critical Programming: Toward a Philosophy of Computing, John Bork
Good Works: The Topoi of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Travel and Tourism Industry, Connie Culler
Disciplinary Mythologies: A Rhetorical-Cultural Analysis of Performance Enhancement Technologies in Sports, John Lamothe
Watch Me Disappear: Gendered Bodies, Pro-Anorexia, and Self-Injury in Virtual Communities, Leandra Preston-Sidler
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Composing the Classroom, Constructing Hybridity: Writing Technology in(to) First-Year Composition Course Design, Christopher Friend
Tractors and Genres: Knowledge-Making and Identity Formation in an Agricultural Community, Marcy Galbreath
Kaleidoscopic Community History: Theories of Databased Rhetorical History-Making, Amy Larner Giroux
Recycled Modernity: Google, Immigration History, and the Limits for H-1B, Neil Patten
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Inverse Intuition: Repurposing As A Method To Create New Artifacts, To Invent New Practices, And To Produce New Knowledge, Warren Jones