T&T Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
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
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
Capillarity: A Theory Of Mlearning And Its Application In Emerging Markets, David Rogers
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Examining Gender In Pharmaceutical Rhetoric Through A Cultural Studies Lens: A Case Study On The Gardasil Vaccine, Jennifer Fickley-Baker
Somatechnologies Of Body Size Modification: Posthuman Embodiment And Discourses Of Health, Meghan Griffin
Placing Birds On A Dynamic Evolutionary Map: Using Digital Tools To Update The Evolutionary Metaphor Of The "Tree Of Life", Sonia Stephens
Deconstructing Disability, Assistive Technology: Secondary Orality, The Path To Universal Access, Tara Prakash Tripathi
Engaging And Enacting Writing In First-year Composition: Re-imagining Student Self-efficacy In Writing, Mary L. Tripp
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The Visual Divide Islam Vs. The West, Image Peception In Cross-cultural Contexts, Hatem Nazir Akil
Remediation And The Task Of The Translator In The Digital Age Digitally Translating Simone Schwarz-bart's Pluie et Vent Sur Telumee Miracle, Stacey Lynn DiLiberto
E-portfolios And Digital Identities Using E-portfolios To Examine Issues In Technical Communication, Jane E. Moody
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
A Screen Of One's Own The Tpec And Feminist Technological Textuality In The 21st Century, Amy J. Barnickel
Virtual Hood: Exploring The Hip-hop Culture Experience In A British Online Community., Natalia Cherjovsky