Faculty and Staff

Joel Schneier, Ph.D.

• Associate Lecturer
• Email: [email protected]
• Office Hours: by appointment
• Campus Location: TCH166G

Biography

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)

Selected Publications

Articles/Essays

• Schneier, J. (2023). Modeling Mobile Writing: Applying Sociocognitive Models of Writing to Mobile Contexts. Written Communication, 40(1), 3–29. https://doi.org/10.1177/07410883221131543

  
  

• Rounsaville, A., Milu, E., & Schneier, J. (2022). 'Research is a Gift of Yours': A Place for Language Diversity in Undergraduate Research at a Hispanic Serving Institution. College English, 84(6), 519-545. 

  
  

• Kester, J.*, & Schneier, J. (2021). Soft Surveillance: Social Media Filter Bubbles as an Invitation to Critical Digital Literacies. The Journal of Interactive Teaching & Pedagogy, 1(20). https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/soft-surveillance-social-media-filter-bubbles-as-an-invitation-to-critical-digital-literacies/ 

  
  
• 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 2026
• Fall 2025
• Summer 2025
• Spring 2025
• Fall 2024
• Summer 2024
• Spring 2024
• Fall 2023
• Summer 2023