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,”...
T&T Student, Clayton Benjamin, Published in Textshop Experiments
June 01, 2017 Clayton Benjamin’s piece, “Conducting Place/Consulting Space: A Proposal to an Electronic Monument to Addiction,” was recently published in Textshop Experiments (volume 3, Summer 2017). Textshop Experiments is an open-access journal dedicated to extending Gregory Ulmer’s work. Using methodology from Ulmer’s Electronic Monuments, Benjamin’s article proposes the installation of a new...
The New Age of Eliminationism: How the Internet Feeds Radicalization and Dehumanization by Dr.David Neiwert
April 18, 2017 David Neiwert presented a talk to the University of Central Florida titled “The New Age of Eliminationism in America: How the Internet Feeds Radicalization and Dehumanization.” The next day, he sat down for a discussion with Dr. Barry Mauer, Interim Director of the Texts and Technology Doctoral Program and a...
Presentation, Texts, Technology, and Context, by Dr. Kirk St. Amant
April 11, 2017 Dr. Kirk St. Amant, Professor and the Eunice C. Williamson Endowed Chair in Technical Communication at Louisiana Tech University (USA), spoke with T&T students and faculty during a presentation titled Texts, Technology, and Context: Integrating Usability into the Design of Texts and Technologies for Local and Global Audiences. Dr. St....
T&T Candidate Abigail Padfield Received the 1st Place Doctoral Award
April 04, 2017 Congratulations, Abigail! T&T candidate Abigail Padfield received the 1st Place Doctoral award at the 2017 UCF Graduate Research Forum for her project, “History Harvest: Teaching the Community to Preserve History.” Pictured: Holly Baker and Abigail Padfield
Dr. David Staley Presents to History and T&T Students
March 29, 2017 Dr. David Staley from the Ohio State University gave a talk to History and T&T students and faculty in conjunction with the display of FHQ III, a 3-D printed data sculpture of the Florida Historical Quarterly. Dr. Staley has written three books: Computers, Visualization and History; History and Future: Using...
The Full-Time Employee in a Doctoral Program
February 28, 2017 Carissa Baker I cannot recall how many times I have been asked since beginning the Texts & Technology doctoral program, “How do you do that?” During the candidacy exam process, I asked myself the same question constantly as I would start my workday at 8am and end my studying at...
Three T&T students recently published in Visual Ethnography v5(2).
February 27, 2017 Four T&T students– Bartley Argo, Nicholas DeArmas, Amanda Hill, and Sara Raffel– were recently published in Visual Ethnography v5(2).): “The Way It Used to Be: Exploring Cultural Heritage Through the Augmented Reality Story of a Neighborhood Soul Food Restaurant.” Visual Ethnography is an international, peer-reviewed journal. The article is about...
Notes on Althusser: Ideology and Interpellation
January 27, 2017 One of the central topics of study in the humanities is the question of ideology. There are many theories about what it is and how it works. One of the more significant of these theories comes from a French Marxist, Louis Althusser, in his 1970 essay, “Ideology and Ideological State...
Tools and Advice for Confronting the Core Candidacy Exam
January 09, 2017 When I joined Texts & Technology, the Ph.D. candidacy exams seemed to me like they’d be the most nerve-wracking aspect of the journey. When I was a first-year student balancing the demands of courses, teaching, and professional development, the exams seemed hazy and far in future. Suddenly, they weren’t. For...
T&T Student,Kendra Auberry, Won the 2016 Florida Campus Compact Engaged Scholarship Research Award
November 29, 2016 T&T student Kendra Auberry recently won the 2016 Florida Campus Compact Engaged Scholarship Research Award in the Florida College System Sector for her research on collective impact. Collective impact refers to a collaborative, inter-organizational effort to effect social change. Auberry, who is the STEM librarian at Indian River State College...
A Sorcerer Looking for a Place in the Academy
November 27, 2016 Author’s note: While working on this post, it was brought to my attention that the binary I created here could be read as arrogance. This is not my intent. I am here exploring something which I feel a great amount of self-consciousness about. I spend a lot of time thinking...
That Reminds Me of a Story
November 25, 2016 Stories have always played an important part in my life. In fact, my story begins with a story that my great-grandmother told her assembled relatives at a Thanksgiving gathering. As the story goes, she had consumed her one glass of pivo (Slovak for beer) and began telling her family not...
T&T Student Published in Xchanges
November 16, 2016 Congratulations to T&T student, Jennifer Miller, on her recently published article in Xchanges! Her article may be viewed here: "Multiliteracies for Inclusive Technologies: A Case Study on Location-Based Services and Domestic Violence Survivors."
Three T&T Students Have Been Named 2016-2018 HASTAC Scholars
November 14, 2016 The Texts and Technology program is pleased to announce that three of its students, Nick DeArmas, Jennifer Miller, and David Morton, have been named 2016-2018 HASTAC Scholars (pronounced Haystack: Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory). The HASTAC Scholars fellowship program is an innovative student-driven community of graduate and...