Department Archives: Texts and Technology Ph.D.

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 mainstream but also become a […]

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 an article titled “Orlando Businesses […]

A group of nearly 30 T&T faculty, staff, students, and their family members gathered on December 16th to celebrate the holidays.

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 Doctor of Philosophy   Dissertation […]

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 information in online social networks.” […]

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 in car-centric metropolitan cities, took […]

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 the 51st State? Alicia Duffy […]

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.

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 continue to lead efforts for […]

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.”