UCF Texts & Technology PhD
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Texts & Technology PhD Program at the University of Central Florida. Highlighting news, events, and publications of our great faculty, students, and alumni! tandt.cah.ucf.edu
T&T alum @persephone.blue recently published "Anti-Games, Fantasy Consoles, and the Rise of Speculative Game Development on Itch.io." Check it out! dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
Anti-Games, Fantasy Consoles, and the Rise of Speculative Game Development on Itch.io | Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games
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February 11, 2026 at 1:13 PM
T&T alum @persephone.blue recently published "Anti-Games, Fantasy Consoles, and the Rise of Speculative Game Development on Itch.io." Check it out! dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
#TBT to T&T faculty member @terpsinoe.bsky.social's 2022 article, "Do Voices Really Make a Difference? Investigating the Value of Local Video Narratives in Risk Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Sea-Level Rise." Take a look! www.ingentaconnect.com/content/stc/...
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February 5, 2026 at 9:44 PM
#TBT to T&T faculty member @terpsinoe.bsky.social's 2022 article, "Do Voices Really Make a Difference? Investigating the Value of Local Video Narratives in Risk Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Sea-Level Rise." Take a look! www.ingentaconnect.com/content/stc/...
T&T alum Carissa Baker recently published "Leveraging historical hospitality in the national parks: Fred Harvey, Mary Colter, and the heritage of the American Southwest." Check it out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Leveraging historical hospitality in the national parks: Fred Harvey, Mary Colter, and the heritage of the American Southwest
This conceptual paper examines the Fred Harvey Company, a key entity that helped develop tourism at Southwestern national parks, in particular Grand Canyon National Park and Petrified Forest Nation...
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February 4, 2026 at 1:53 PM
T&T alum Carissa Baker recently published "Leveraging historical hospitality in the national parks: Fred Harvey, Mary Colter, and the heritage of the American Southwest." Check it out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#TBT to T&T alum Hajer Albalawi's 2021 paper, "Human–Technology Interaction: The Cognitive Hack in the Automatic Speech Recognition Devices." Check it out! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Human–Technology Interaction: The Cognitive Hack in the Automatic Speech Recognition Devices
Many significant changes and shifts in daily human life have occurred in the digital era because of technology, with claims that the newest technology makes life more comfortable and more efficient, i...
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January 29, 2026 at 3:22 PM
#TBT to T&T alum Hajer Albalawi's 2021 paper, "Human–Technology Interaction: The Cognitive Hack in the Automatic Speech Recognition Devices." Check it out! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
T&T faculty member @lucidbard.bsky.social recently published "Streams of Consciousness in Interactive Digital Narrative Research Design." Check it out! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Streams of Consciousness in Interactive Digital Narrative Research Design
Interactive Digital Narrative researchers have used a variety of methodologies to assess players’ experiences with IDN processes, systems and artifacts. Interviewing and surveying have been the ...
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January 28, 2026 at 8:44 PM
T&T faculty member @lucidbard.bsky.social recently published "Streams of Consciousness in Interactive Digital Narrative Research Design." Check it out! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
#TBT to "Digital Humanities and/as Media Studies," published in 2022 by T&T alum @amoreshead.bsky.social and T&T director @anasalter.bsky.social Take a look! www.bloomsbury.com/us/bloomsbur...
The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities
The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities reconsiders key debates, methods, possibilities, and failings from across the digital humanities, offering a t…
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January 22, 2026 at 1:40 PM
#TBT to "Digital Humanities and/as Media Studies," published in 2022 by T&T alum @amoreshead.bsky.social and T&T director @anasalter.bsky.social Take a look! www.bloomsbury.com/us/bloomsbur...
#TBT to T&T faculty member @ekj.bsky.social's 2022 article, "The Aural-Visual Rhetoric in Video Game Tutorials." Take a look! www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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January 15, 2026 at 3:38 PM
#TBT to T&T faculty member @ekj.bsky.social's 2022 article, "The Aural-Visual Rhetoric in Video Game Tutorials." Take a look! www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
T&T student Nikki Chasteen recently published "Remotely Sustaining Community and Enhancing Professional Development in a Writing and Communications Center during the COVID-19 Pandemic." Check it out! ship.pressbooks.pub/thepostpande...
Remotely Sustaining Community and Enhancing Professional Development in a Writing and Communications Center during the COVID-19 Pandemic – The Post-Pandemic Writing Center: A WLN Digital Edited Collec...
<p>Sarah Rice, John Katunich, and Noreen Lape, Editors</p><p>Karen Gabrielle Johnson & Julia Bleakney, <em>WLN</em> Digital Edited Collection Series Editors</p><p>For more information about the WLN D...
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January 14, 2026 at 2:48 PM
T&T student Nikki Chasteen recently published "Remotely Sustaining Community and Enhancing Professional Development in a Writing and Communications Center during the COVID-19 Pandemic." Check it out! ship.pressbooks.pub/thepostpande...
#TBT to T&T alum @persephone.blue's 2022 paper, “LET ALL PARTAKE IN THE SUFFERING”: MÖRK BORG as a Visual-Material Toolkit for Fan Remix. Check it out! dl.digra.org/index.php/dl...
“LET ALL PARTAKE IN THE SUFFERING”: MÖRK BORG as a Visual-Material Toolkit for Fan Remix
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January 8, 2026 at 3:45 PM
#TBT to T&T alum @persephone.blue's 2022 paper, “LET ALL PARTAKE IN THE SUFFERING”: MÖRK BORG as a Visual-Material Toolkit for Fan Remix. Check it out! dl.digra.org/index.php/dl...
T&T student @veekennedy.bsky.social recently published "A Pre-Pandemic Snapshot of a Culture of (in)Access: Accommodation Statements in the Document Ecology of the First-Year Writing Programs in Michigan" in WPA: The Journal of Writing Program Administration: www.wpacouncil.org/aws/CWPA/pt/...
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January 7, 2026 at 3:56 PM
T&T student @veekennedy.bsky.social recently published "A Pre-Pandemic Snapshot of a Culture of (in)Access: Accommodation Statements in the Document Ecology of the First-Year Writing Programs in Michigan" in WPA: The Journal of Writing Program Administration: www.wpacouncil.org/aws/CWPA/pt/...
T&T faculty member Jonathan Beever recently published "Ethical Decision-Making Among Nurses Participating in Social Media: A Grounded Theory Study." Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Ethical Decision-Making Among Nurses Participating in Social Media: A Grounded Theory Study
Nurses use social media for both professional and personal purposes, but even personal posts that can be misconstrued or violate patient privacy can l…
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December 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
T&T faculty member Jonathan Beever recently published "Ethical Decision-Making Among Nurses Participating in Social Media: A Grounded Theory Study." Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#TBT to T&T alum @bynikkibarnes.bsky.social's 2022 chapter, "An Expanded Field: Exploring Form, Mode, and Material in Poetry Writing Workshop." Take a look! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/multimoda...
Multimodal and Digital Creative Writing Pedagogies
Multimodal and Digital Creative Writing Pedagogies offers a breadth of expertise and informed pedagogies on teaching multimodal and digital creative writing in…
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December 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
#TBT to T&T alum @bynikkibarnes.bsky.social's 2022 chapter, "An Expanded Field: Exploring Form, Mode, and Material in Poetry Writing Workshop." Take a look! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/multimoda...
T&T alum Carissa Baker recently published "Maintaining Brand Identity and Heritage in the Corporate Environment: The Case of Knott’s Berry Farm’s Boysenberry Festival." Check it out! www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cog/...
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December 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
T&T alum Carissa Baker recently published "Maintaining Brand Identity and Heritage in the Corporate Environment: The Case of Knott’s Berry Farm’s Boysenberry Festival." Check it out! www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cog/...
#TBT to "Supporting Community Resilience to Environmental Hazards through User-Centered Design," published in 2022 by T&T faculty member @terpsinoe.bsky.social and T&T alum Amanda Altamirano. Take a look! dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Supporting Community Resilience to Environmental Hazards through User-Centered Design | Proceedings of the 40th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
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December 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
#TBT to "Supporting Community Resilience to Environmental Hazards through User-Centered Design," published in 2022 by T&T faculty member @terpsinoe.bsky.social and T&T alum Amanda Altamirano. Take a look! dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
T&T faculty member Blake Scott and his collaborators recently published "Using Comics as Data Collection and Training Tools to Understand and Prevent Provider-Enacted HIV Stigma." Check it out! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Using Comics as Data Collection and Training Tools to Understand and Prevent Provider-Enacted HIV Stigma - Journal of Medical Humanities
Comic storyboards that participants co-create can function as generative data collection tools when integrated into interviews or focus groups in a qualitative-rhetorical study. As a preliminary stage...
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December 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
T&T faculty member Blake Scott and his collaborators recently published "Using Comics as Data Collection and Training Tools to Understand and Prevent Provider-Enacted HIV Stigma." Check it out! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Our last information session for the T&T PhD is TONIGHT, Thursday, November 20, at 6pm. If you're interested in a PhD at the intersection of humanities and technology, be sure to sign up to learn more about our program! applynow.graduate.ucf.edu/register/?id...
Texts and Technology November Virtual Open House
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November 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Our last information session for the T&T PhD is TONIGHT, Thursday, November 20, at 6pm. If you're interested in a PhD at the intersection of humanities and technology, be sure to sign up to learn more about our program! applynow.graduate.ucf.edu/register/?id...
T&T students Matthew Bryan, Emily Proulx, @veekennedy.bsky.social, and Ricky Finch, and faculty Joel Schneier and Sherry Rankins-Robertson recently published "Sustaining Collective Actions: Program Assessment During Transitional Moments." Check it out! compositionforum.com/issue/56/pro...
Sustaining Collective Actions: Program Assessment During Transitional Moments – Composition Forum
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November 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
T&T students Matthew Bryan, Emily Proulx, @veekennedy.bsky.social, and Ricky Finch, and faculty Joel Schneier and Sherry Rankins-Robertson recently published "Sustaining Collective Actions: Program Assessment During Transitional Moments." Check it out! compositionforum.com/issue/56/pro...
Our last information session for the T&T PhD is in ONE WEEK on Thursday, November 20. Be sure to sign up to learn more about our program! applynow.graduate.ucf.edu/register/?id...
Texts and Technology November Virtual Open House
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November 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Our last information session for the T&T PhD is in ONE WEEK on Thursday, November 20. Be sure to sign up to learn more about our program! applynow.graduate.ucf.edu/register/?id...
T&T alum @persephone.blue recently published "Un-Moving Play and the End of Time: Code Injections and the Trans Abrogation of Media Objects." Check it out! muse.jhu.edu/pub/349/arti...
Project MUSE - Un-Moving Play and the End of <i>Time</i>: Code Injections and the Trans Abrogation of Media Objects
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November 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
T&T alum @persephone.blue recently published "Un-Moving Play and the End of Time: Code Injections and the Trans Abrogation of Media Objects." Check it out! muse.jhu.edu/pub/349/arti...
#TBT to T&T alum @jackademia.bsky.social and T&T director @anasalter.bsky.social's 2022 piece, "Mechanics on the Blockchain: A Taxonomy of NFTs in Games" dl.digra.org/index.php/dl.... Check it out!
Mechanics on the Blockchain: A Taxonomy of NFTs in Games
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November 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
#TBT to T&T alum @jackademia.bsky.social and T&T director @anasalter.bsky.social's 2022 piece, "Mechanics on the Blockchain: A Taxonomy of NFTs in Games" dl.digra.org/index.php/dl.... Check it out!
Our information session for the DH in the Age of AI certificate is TONIGHT, Wednesday, November 5. Be sure to sign up to learn more about our program!
Want to study the intersection of humanities and technology at a smaller scale than a PhD? T&T also offers an interdisciplinary graduate certificate, Digital Humanities in the Age of AI. We'll be holding an information session Wednesday, November 5 at 6pm applynow.graduate.ucf.edu/register/?id...
Digital Humanities in the Age of AI Gradute Certificate Open House
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November 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Our information session for the DH in the Age of AI certificate is TONIGHT, Wednesday, November 5. Be sure to sign up to learn more about our program!
T&T congratulates our newest PhD, Dr. Demagio Mansell, who successfully defended his dissertation, "It Goes Down in the Valley: The Resonance of Black Queer Authenticity and Fan Engagement in Black Television," today!
October 31, 2025 at 4:24 PM
T&T congratulates our newest PhD, Dr. Demagio Mansell, who successfully defended his dissertation, "It Goes Down in the Valley: The Resonance of Black Queer Authenticity and Fan Engagement in Black Television," today!
Our information session for the DH in the Age of AI certificate NEXT WEEK on Wednesday, November 5. Be sure to sign up to learn more about our program!
Want to study the intersection of humanities and technology at a smaller scale than a PhD? T&T also offers an interdisciplinary graduate certificate, Digital Humanities in the Age of AI. We'll be holding an information session Wednesday, November 5 at 6pm applynow.graduate.ucf.edu/register/?id...
Digital Humanities in the Age of AI Gradute Certificate Open House
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October 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Our information session for the DH in the Age of AI certificate NEXT WEEK on Wednesday, November 5. Be sure to sign up to learn more about our program!
T&T congratulates our latest PhD, Dr. Marissa Salas, who successfully defended her dissertation yesterday!
October 29, 2025 at 7:20 PM
T&T congratulates our latest PhD, Dr. Marissa Salas, who successfully defended her dissertation yesterday!
T&T faculty member @rosalindbeiler.bsky.social was recently featured in this UCF news story about the PRINT (People, Religion, Information Networks, and Travel) project she leads: www.ucf.edu/news/ucf-his...
UCF Historians Infuse the Past with Tech to Breathe New Life into Atlantic Migration
An ambitious UCF-led team comprising faculty, students and recent graduates are using advanced digitizing to better visualize 17th and 18th century European religious migration to the Americas and con...
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October 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
T&T faculty member @rosalindbeiler.bsky.social was recently featured in this UCF news story about the PRINT (People, Religion, Information Networks, and Travel) project she leads: www.ucf.edu/news/ucf-his...