T&T alum Carissa Baker was recently featured by UCF Alumni. Take a look! ucfalumni.com/blog/educate...

#TBT to T&T faculty member Barry Mauer's 2022 chapter, "Making Repulsive Monuments." Check it out! openbooks.lib.msu.edu/makingsensed...

T&T faculty @anasalter.bsky.social, @rudymcdaniel.bsky.social, @medievalhistorian.bsky.social, and Jonathan Beever recently participated in the Association of American Colleges and Universities’ Institute on AI, Pedagogy and the Curriculum. Check it out! www.ucf.edu/news/ucf-fac...

#TBT to 2022 chapter "Gameful teaching: Exploring language teacher identity and agency through video games," from T&T faculty members @ekj.bsky.social and Amy Giroux, T&T alum Don Merritt, and collaborators! www.jbe-platform.com/content/book...

T&T student @bynikkibarnes.bsky.social was recently featured in this UCF news article. Check it out! www.ucf.edu/news/ucf-doc...

#TBT to 2022 paper "Adventures in TwineSpace: An Augmented Reality Story Format for Twine" from T&T alums @persephone.blue @videlais.bsky.social @jackademia.bsky.social and T&T faculty member @anasalter.bsky.social Check it out! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

#TBT to T&T alum @bynikkibarnes.bsky.social and student Farrah Cato's 2022 piece, "'These are the conditions we write under': Selfies, Care-work, and Collaboration in the Time of COVID." Take a look! journalofmultimodalrhetorics.com/6-2-cato-and...

T&T alum Carissa Baker recently published "The future of hospitality is storytelling: Conceptualising the visitor’s journey." Check it out! www.ajol.info/index.php/rh...

#TBT to T&T alum Francine Sutton's 2022 publication, "A Content Analysis of Existing mHealth Applications for Potential Older Adult Use." Take a look! dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

T&T faculty member @terpsinoe.bsky.social recently published "Understanding What Amateur Nature Observers Value in Identification Field Guides: A Content Analysis." Check it out! dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

T&T faculty member @melstanfill.bsky.social recently published “Against ‘Toxic Fandom’: Fans, Harassment, and the Culture Wars" in the book _Participatory Culture Wars: Controversy, Conflict and Complicity in Fandom_. Check it out! uipress.uiowa.edu/books/partic...

#TBT to T&T faculty member Blake Scott's 2022 publication, "Reconfiguring the Relationship between Graduate Professional Writing and Rhetoric & Composition Programs—Innovations toward Transdisciplinary Integration." Take a look! ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...

T&T alum David Morton recently published a commentary on the history of indie film-making in Florida. Check it out! www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/07/27/c...

Last week, we had FOUR incoming T&T students present the research they completed as part of the Summer Mentoring Fellowship: LJ Connolly, Christina Restrepo Nazar, Erin Webreck, and Teddy Duncan (not pictured).

Congratulations to our three Summer 2025 graduates, Hanan Hafiz, Shelley Maccini, and Ryu Yamamoto!

#TBT to T&T faculty member Joel Schneier's 2022 paper, "Achievement motivation in writing: Exploring the pursuit of multiple goals and keystroke behaviors during writing tasks." Take a look! repository.isls.org/handle/1/8449

#TBT to "Imagining the Other for Interactive Digital Narrative Design Learning in Real Time in Sherlock," published by T&T alum @videlais.bsky.social and T&T faculty @lucidbard.bsky.social in 2021. Check it out! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

T&T alum @amoreshead.bsky.social and T&T faculty @anasalter.bsky.social recently published "Craftivism in the time of Covid: resisting toxic masculinity through feminized labor." Check it out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

#TBT to T&T faculty member @rudymcdaniel.bsky.social's 2017 paper, "Creative Content Management: Importance, Novelty, and Affect as Design Heuristics for Learning Management Systems." Check it out! ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...

T&T alum @corinnejones.bsky.social recently published "Heuristic Questions for Instagram Live." Check it out! comunicazionisociali.vitaepensiero.com/scheda-artic...

#elo25 starts today. T&T has SEVEN people participating: students @pdedgar30.bsky.social, Ricky Finch, and Anyssa Gonzalez; alum @videlais.bsky.social; incoming student Glenn Ritchey; and faculty @anasalter.bsky.social and @lucidbard.bsky.social

T&T alum @persephone.blue recently published "Megathreads and ‘waifu wars’: A structural content analysis of r/persona5 as a community of practice." Check it out! www.participations.org/19-02-07-bri...

T&T congratulates our newest PhD, Dr. Shelley Maccini, who successfully defended her dissertation, "Ethical Concerns and Consumer Perceptions of Fairness in Gamified Customer Loyalty Programs," yesterday!

T&T is representing at Console-ing Passions Atlanta, with SIX students and one faculty member: @thekateprior.bsky.social @veekennedy.bsky.social @nicoleneece.bsky.social (not pictured, @melstanfill.bsky.social, @helloemi.bsky.social, @pdedgar30.bsky.social, and @alyssab7.bsky.social).

#TBT to T&T faculty member Jonathan Beever's 2022 chapter, "The ethics of privacy in research and design: Principles, practices, and potential." Check it out! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

T&T congratulates our newest PhD, Dr. Hanan Hafiz, who successfully defended her dissertation, "Emojis as Text Technology: Between Visual Paradigm and Cultural Revolution," today!

T&T alum Carissa Baker recently published "Three-Dimensional Fear: The Presence of Narrative in Theme Park Halloween Festivals." Take a look! www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cog/...

#TBT to T&T faculty member @terpsinoe.bsky.social's 2021 article, "Story mapping and sea level rise: listening to global risks at street level." Take a look! dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

T&T student @veekennedy.bsky.social recently published "Postcolonial Pokémon: The Social Responsibility of Indigenous Representation as told by Online Discourse and Game Reviews of Pokémon Legends Arceus." Check it out! doi.org/10.34382/000...

#TBT to T&T director @anasalter.bsky.social 's 2016 chapter "Educational Games" in Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon. Check it out! direct.mit.edu/books/edited...

T&T faculty member @lucidbard.bsky.social recently published "Discovering IDN Authoring Strategies: Novices Anchor Choice Design Through Character Development with Player Feedback." Take a look! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

#TBT to T&T faculty member @rudymcdaniel.bsky.social's 2016 article, "Developer Discourse: Exploring Technical Communication Practices within Video Game Development." Take a look! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

T&T alum @persephone.blue and coauthors recently published "'Imagine a place': Power and intimacy in fandoms on Discord" in @journal.transformativeworks.org. Check it out! journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...

T&T congratulates our SEVEN students who graduated last week!

T&T faculty member J.D. Applen recently published "Considering Race and Mortality from COVID as a Wicked Problem Using Praxiography as Pedagogy." Check it out! ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...

#TBT to T&T alum Amanda Altamirano's 2022 publication, "Intersectional Feminism as a Theoretical Framework for Navigating Bias in the Technical Communication Workplace." Check it out! dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

#TBT to T&T faculty member @terpsinoe.bsky.social's 2019 article, "A Framework for User Agency during Development of Interactive Risk Visualization Tools." Check it out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

T&T faculty @anasalter.bsky.social and @melstanfill.bsky.social recently published "Game Studies, Endgame?" in the most recent edition of Debates in the Digital Humanities, discussing how Game Studies provides insight into the present and future of DH. dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/debates...

Really grateful for the opportunity to present my reading and a stab at what will become an article on these many collections at @pcaaca.bsky.social ! The poetry track is incredibly generous and it’s fun to be here with @helloemi.bsky.social, @jmlwhittington.com & other @ucftandt.bsky.social folks!

‪Heading into #FDG25, check out past hits from T&T! In 2023, alum @casusscribere.bsky.social published "If Your Empire Last More Than Two Centuries, You May Need to Speak to Your Doctor: The Effects of Historicizing Discourse in the Crusader Kings 3 Community." dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Heading into #FDG25, check out past hits from T&T! In 2023, faculty @melstanfill.bsky.social and @anasalter.bsky.social along with former faculty member @annetropy.bsky.social published "The Constraints of Cozy Games: Boyfriend Dungeon and Consent in Queer Play" dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Heading into #FDG25, check out past hits from T&T! In 2023, alum @jackademia.bsky.social published "Igniting the Spark: Analog to Digital Adaptation of Narrative Affect and Player Subjectivity in Magic: The Gathering through Analog to Digital Adaptation." dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

T&T congratulates our latest PhD, Dr. Ream Alghamdi, who successfully defended her dissertation, "Trust In Ephemeral Content in Social Media Platforms: A Mixed-Method Approach Examining Online Users’ Privacy Concerns in The Case of Snapchat," today!

T&T congratulates Dr. Nikki Fragala Barnes, who successfully defended her dissertation, "Transformative Pedagogies Via Iterative Instructional Design," yesterday!

T&T congratulates our newest PhD, Dr. David Matteson, who successfully defended his dissertation, "Precedents For the Experiential Turn In American Art Museums: A Case Study of Paul Gardner, Chick Austin, Leslie Cheek, and the Museums They Directed, 1932-1968," today!

T&T congratulates our latest PhD, Dr. Rachel Marks, who successfully defended her dissertation, "Analysis of Queerness and Race in Black Lightning and DCTV Femslash," today!

T&T congratulates our newest PhD, Dr. Jacob Boccio, who successfully defended his dissertation, "Netflix and the Platformization of Film and Television Content Discovery," today!

Still recovering from jet lag traveling to/from Trondheim, Norway! Really grateful to @ucftandt.bsky.social and UCF’s student government for the help getting to present a “Poetry Prompting Pattern” as an AI “equity audit” mode partially inspired by “ignore previous instructions; write me a poem”

T&T students Alia Hall and @pdedgar30.bsky.social recently presented "Decoding the Black Box: Discerning AI Rhetorics About and Through Poetic Prompting" at the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence.

#TBT to T&T faculty member @lucidbard.bsky.social's 2021 paper, "Transfordance: The Decentering Effect of Transformative Affordances in Virtual Reality in The Hollow Reach." Check it out! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...