Dissertations are available in the Texts and Technology STARS archive.
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
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
2020
Discursive Trick Effects: How Raced and Gendered Semiotics in Industry Media Undermine Equal Representation in the Cybersecurity Workforce, Patricia Thomas
Examining the Design and Usability of Telemedicine Communications: A Mixed-methods Study, Jessica Campbell
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
Hearing the Voices of the Deserters: Activist Critical Making in Electronic Literature, Laura Okkema
The Heralds of the Dawn: A History of the Motion Picture Industry in the State of Florida, 1908-2019, David Morton
Moving Towards a Dialogic Pedagogy: Using Video Feedback as a Teaching Tool to Respond to Writing across Disciplines, Paul Martin
Measuring Player Perceptions of Freedom and Control in Modded and Unmodded Versions of Bethesda’s Skyrim: A Qualitative Play Study, Mark Kretzschmar
Power to the People: Responsible Facilitation in Co-Creative Story-Making, Amanda Hill
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’Keeffee
Touching the Unreal: The Definition, Narrative Strategies, and Aesthetics of 3D Cartoon Narratives., Nathan Snow
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
2008
From Textbooks To Safety Briefings: Helping Technical Writers Negotiate Complex Rhetorical Situations, Brian Blackburne
Outside The Frame: Towards A Phenomenology Of Texts And Technology, Anthony Crisafi
Green Chairs, Fictional Phalluses, Infiltration, And Love On The Rocks: Medical Imaging Artifacts Blown Up, Lynn Koller
Memories And Milestones: The Brighton Seminole Tribe Of Florida And The Digitization Of Culture, April Van Camps
2007
Patchwork Culture: Quilt Tactics And Digitextuality, Michelle P. Barrett Ferrier
Postmodern Feminism, Hypertext, And The Rhetoric Of Cooking Websites, Heather Eaton McGrane
Space Matters: An Institutional Critique Of Distance Learning Within The University Of Central Florida English Department, Lori Mumpower
Recreational Technology And Its Impact On The Learning Development Of Children Ages 4-8: A Meta-analysis For The 21st Century Cl, Joey Templeton
2006
The Kiosk Culture: Reconciling The Performance Support Paradox In The Postmodern Age Of Machines, Thomas Cavanagh
Memory-craft: The Role Of Domestic Technology In Women’s Journals, Tammy Powley
2004
A Software-based Knowledge Management System Using Narrative Texts, Thomas Rudy McDaniel
A Rhetoric Of Technology: The Discourse In U.S. Army Manuals And Handbooks, Sherry Ann Steward