Our T&T Student, Kirk Lundblade, Awarded Paid Internship with Orange County Clerk of Courts
February 06, 2018 First Year T&T student, Kirk Lundblade, was recently awarded a paid internship with the Orange County Clerk of Courts. His position will involve the following: Overview: The Orange County Clerk of Courts is implementing a wiki-style Knowledge Management System and related best practices to promote information self-service, allowing employees to find answers...
Our T&T Alumnus, Marci Mazzarotto, Publishes Experimental Video on TextShop
February 06, 2018 Marci Mazzarotto, who graduated from T&T in spring 2017, published her new video work, “(re)Inventing with the Cloud,” in the online journal TextShop. In her “Creator’s Statement” about the project, Marci writes, This project began with a simple task: to free up memory on my smart phone. As I deleted...
Elvis and Sam Phillips: Methods of Invention at Sun Records
January 30, 2018 By Barry Mauer How Are New Modes of Communication Invented? The key to the invention of rock and roll was the development of a “personal culture,” which enabled the early rockers to think and communicate differently from commonly accepted modes. Both Elvis and Sam Phillips – Elvis producer at Sun...
Sonia Stephens Awarded Research Grant to Study Story Mapping and Sea Level Rise
January 30, 2018 Sonia Stephens’ research project, “Story Mapping and Sea Level Rise: Bringing a Global Risk Home,” was awarded an ACM SIGDOC Career Advancement Grant. Her co-investigator on the research project is D. Richards, from Old Dominion University. Congratulations, Sonia!
Anastasia Salter Has a New Book: Toxic Geek Masculinity in Media: Sexism, Trolling, and Identity Policing
January 30, 2018 Anastasia Salter’s new book, Toxic Geek Masculinity in Media: Sexism, Trolling, and Identity Policing, co-authored with Bridget Blodgett, was recently published by Palgrave Macmillan. From the publisher’s page (https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783319660769): This book examines changing representations of masculinity in geek media, during a time of transition in which “geek” has not only gone...
Wendy Givoglu Noted in Orlando Sentinel
January 26, 2018 January 25, 2018. T&T dissertation student, Wendy Givoglu, serves as Dean of the School of Arts and Entertainment at Valencia College. Her dissertation research focuses on arts engagement among millennials in Orlando and was featured at the HASTAC conference in November. Wendy was quoted in the Orlando Sentinel today, in...
2017 T&T Holiday Party
January 23, 2018 A group of nearly 30 T&T faculty, staff, students, and their family members gathered on December 16th to celebrate the holidays.
Brandy Dieterle Successfully Defends Dissertation
January 16, 2018 Committee in Charge: Dr. Stephanie Vie, Assoc Prof, Dept Chair, Writing & Rhetoric/UCF Dr. Martha Brenckle, Professor, Director of Graduate Programs, DWR/UCF Dr. Anastasia Salter, Assistant Professor, Digital Media, SVAD/UCF Dr. Stacey Pigg, Assistant Professor, Department of English, NC State Univ. Ms. Brandy Dieterle for the degree of...
T&T Faculty Involved in Social Sim Project
December 15, 2017 T&T faculty members Anastasia Salter, Mel Stanfill, and Barry Mauer joined the team led by Assistant Professor Ivan Garibay, director of UCF’s Complex Adaptive Systems Laboratory in the College of Engineering & Computer Science, “to develop models and massive simulations to help understand online social behavior and predict the spread of...
T&T Student Wins Social Venture Competition
December 07, 2017 At the recent Social Venture Competition, doctoral student David Thomas Moran pitched his idea to use real-time data to enhance public transportation. University of Central Florida doctoral student David Thomas Moran and his company, Omnimodal, LLC, which uses real-time data to enhance the quality, efficiency and reliability of public transportation...
T&T Holds "Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Texts and Technology" Graduate Symposium
November 30, 2017 Texts and Technology Assistant Professor, Mel Stanfill, organized the “Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Texts and Technology: A Graduate Symposium,” November 29, in the Burnett Honors College. Presentations included – Panel 1: Historical Approaches to Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Texts and Technology When will Puerto Rico become...
T and T Alumni Lands Tenure Track Job
November 28, 2017 Texts and Technology alumni Marci Mazzarotto (2017) was offered a tenure-track position in Digital Communication at Georgian Court University, a small liberal arts Catholic university in central New Jersey.
T&T Alum Tom Cavanagh Appointed UCF's Vice Provost for Digital Learning
November 16, 2017 Dr. Tom Cavanagh (T&T 2006) was appointed in August 2017 as the University of Central Florida’s new Vice Provost for Digital Learning, overseeing the Center for Distributed Learning, the Office of Instructional Resources, and new digital initiatives that will positively impact student retention, engagement, success, and access. Dr. Cavanagh will...
T&T Student, Mia Tignor, Wins Poster Competition at HASTAC
November 06, 2017 Mia Tignor was one of three winners of the Electronic Poster competition at HASTAC, held in Orlando, November 3-4, 2017. Her poster is titled “Critical Cataloging: Examining LCSH as Text.”
Dr. Bryan Pijanowski and UCF Confront the Planet’s Current Biodiversity Crisis
November 05, 2017 Participants listened closely as noted Sound Ecologist, Dr. Bryan Pijanowski, presented Seven Sonic Pathways to Address A Silent Wicked Problem: A Call to Arms for Scholars in the Sciences and Humanities to Join Forces to Confront the Planet’s Current Biodiversity Crisis for faculty and students on November 1. Dr. Pijanowski works at...
T&T Student Finalist in Startup Competition
November 01, 2017 Omnimodal, a transportation tech startup co-founded by David Thomas Moran ‘14 and Nathan Selikoff ‘04, was one of nine finalists admitted into the Central Florida Social Enterprise Accelerator (CFL SEA) program committed to creating positive social change through entrepreneurship. The first program of its kind in Central Florida, CFL SEA...
UCF to Host HASTAC Conference
October 26, 2017 Collaborations of the digital and humanities worlds will be presented at an international gathering Nov. 3-4 at the University of Central Florida to look at new ways of teaching and research in an age when many say the printed word is no longer the main medium for education and its...
Three T&T Faculty Members Honored as Luminary Leaders
October 20, 2017 Congratulations to Anastasia Salter, Stephanie Vie, and Pavel Zemliansky for making a positive impact on the world! These T&T faculty members were honored at UCF’s inaugural Luminary Award presentation for dreaming big and making positive change in the world through their work. Read more.
UCF’s Graduate Programs Partner with University of Foggia in Italy
October 18, 2017 As program director for UCF’s College of Arts & Humanities’ doctoral program in Texts & Technology, I am working with Dr. Pierpaolo Limone University of Foggia in eastern Italy to develop a graduate exchange program between our two institutions. I was the third UCF faculty member to travel to Foggia...
Paving a Unique Path Through Texts and Technology
October 13, 2017 While completing his master’s degree, David Morton found himself at a crossroads. He knew he wanted to continue his education and pursue a doctoral degree, but wasn’t sure which of his many passions he most wanted to pursue. The inevitable question, “What am I going to do with my life,”...