T&T Graduate Theses and Dissertations
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
Writing About Reflecting About Teaching: The Circulation of Writing About Writing with Pedagogical Implications, Emily Hensley
Mapping the Focal Points of WordPress: A Software and Critical Code Analysis, Bryce Jackson
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
Prospects For Change: Creating A Blended Learning Program Through A Culture Of Support, Bill Leach
Multi-modal Reading For Low Level Readers, Jamie O'Neal
The Rhetoric Of The Regional Image Interpreting The Visual Products Of Regional Plannning, Alissa Barber Torres
Defining Workplace Information Fluency Skills For Technical Communication Students, Yuejiao Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Political Spaces And Remediated Places: Rearticulating The Role Of Technology In The Writing Center, Russell Carpenter
Pedagogical Re-mediation In Hybrid Courses: A Case Study Of Five First-year Composition Instructors, Rebecca Middlebrook
Digital Research Cycles: How Attitudes Toward Content, Culture And Technology Affect Web Development., Edward Scott
Information-seeking Strategies Of Doctoral Students And Implications For Design Of The Graduate School Web Space, Debra Winter
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
From Textbooks To Safety Briefings: Helping Technical Writers Negotiate Complex Rhetorical Situations, Brian Blackburne