Faculty and Staff

Biography

Dr. Joel Schneier is a Lecturer in the Department of Writing & Rhetoric (DWR) at the University of Central Florida. He earned a Ph.D. from the Communication, Rhetoric, & Digital Media program at North Carolina State University.

Dr. Schneier's research investigates questions at the intersection of mobile communication, writing, and sociolinguistics, with a focus on process-based and computational methods for empirically studying how individuals meaningfully communicate with others through mobile technology. His recent research has included keystroke-logging analysis on mobile devices to study writing processes during text messaging, a microethology of collaborative gameplay in mobile Minecraft, a usability study of BigDIVA.org, and longitudinal study of non-native English speakers' writing experiences in undergrad. His research has been published in New Media & Society, Mobile Media & Communication, and Digital Humanities Quarterly.

Dr. Schneier's teaching experience has included classes in First-Year Composition, Writing Studies, Professional Writing, Linguistics, and Science Technology & Society.

Education

• Ph.D. in Communication, Rhetoric, & Digital Media from North Carolina State University (2019)
• M.A. in English (Sociolinguistics, Writing & Rhetoric) from North Carolina State University (2013)
• B.A. in English (Creative Writing, Writing & Rhetoric) from James Madison University (2007)

Research Interests

Mobile communication and interfacing, process-based methods for writing research, emerging digital literacies, language variation and change, mediatization.

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Selected Publications

Articles/Essays

• Schneier, J. (2021). Digital articulation: Examining text-based linguistic performances in mobile communication through keystroke-logging analysis. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frai.2020.539920.
  
• Schneier, J., Stinson, T., & Davis, M. (2018). Networked Browsing: Performative, Joyous Browsing and the case of BigDIVA. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 12(2).
• Schneier, J., & Taylor, N. (2018). Handcrafted gameworlds: Space-time biases in mobile Minecraft play. New Media & Society, 20(9), 3420–3436. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444817749517.
• Schneier, J., & Kudenov, P. (2018). Texting in motion: Keystroke logging and observing synchronous mobile discourse. Mobile Media & Communication, 6(3), 309–330. https://doi.org/10.1177/2050157917738806.

Book Sections/Chapters

• Schneier, J. (2020). “You Broke Minecraft”: Hybrid play and the materialization of game spaces through mobile Minecraft Play. In de Souza e Silva, A., & Glover-Rijkse (Eds.), Hybrid Play: Crossing boundaries in game design, player identities, and play spaces. Routledge.
• Schneier, J. (2019). Is text-messaging changing how I write and speak? In Myrick, C. & Wolfram, W. (Eds.), The Five-Minute Linguist: Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages, 3rd Edition.
• Childs, B and Schneier, J. (2018). Language and the internet in the New South. In Reaser, J., Wilbanks, E., Wojcik, K., & Wolfram, W. (Eds.), Language Variety in the New South: Contemporary Perspectives on Change and Variation (pp 62-77). Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press.

Courses

• Spring 2021
• Fall 2020
• Summer 2020