Faculty and Staff

Joel Schneier, Ph.D.

• Assistant Professor
• Email: Joel.Schneier@ucf.edu
• Office Hours: by appointment
• Campus Location: TCH166G
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Biography

My name is Joel Schneier. I earned a Ph.D. from the Communication, Rhetoric, & Digital Media program at North Carolina State University, and I am currently a Lecturer at the University of Central Florida in the Department of Writing & Rhetoric.

My research investigates questions at the intersection of mobile communication, writing, and sociolinguistics. I have conducted studies that have examined how young children play mobile Minecraft collaboratively, how individuals write on mobile devices, how facial expressions of emotions are interwoven into the writing process, and how a language diversity curriculum impacts first-year writing students. My single-author research has been published in Written Communication and Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, and my co-authored research has been published in College English, New Media & Society, Mobile Media & Communication, the Journal of Interactive Teaching & Pedagogy, and Digital Humanities Quarterly.

My teaching experience has included classes in First-Year Composition, Writing Studies, Professional Writing, Linguistics, and Science Technology & Society.

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)

Research Interests

writing processes, process-based methods, mobile writing, digital media, sociolinguistics, 

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 2027
• Fall 2026
• Summer 2026
• Spring 2026
• Fall 2025
• Summer 2025
• Spring 2025
• Fall 2024
• Summer 2024
• Spring 2024
• Fall 2023
• Summer 2023
• Spring 2023
• Fall 2022
• Summer 2022
• Spring 2022
• Fall 2021
• Summer 2021