Kairos

A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy

ISSN 1521-2300

• Topoi

  • Cell Phones, Networks & Power: Documenting Cell Phone Literacies

    Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder

    
    

    "[T]this webtext presents cell phones as agents that can hold a great deal of influence in our everyday activities and literacies. In order to get closer to how these powers function in an educational context, this project explores cell phones through an explanation of a student video project and an actor-network/new materialist analysis of that video."

• Inventio

  • Click to Add Ideas

    David M. Sheridan

    

    This webtext "tells the story of one composer's struggles with (and within) PowerPoint, a metonymic interface of digital composing" by placing "the composing process depicted in the video in dialogue with the composing process that resulted in the video."

• Praxis

  • ClarissaBlogs: Narrative, Writing, and the Self

    Debra Journet, Steve Cohen, Rachel Gramer, Megan Faver Hartline, Keri Mathis, Tony O'Keeffe, Kendra Sheehan, & Jessica Winck

    

    "Our goals in this webtext are to 1) document our reflexive examination of the connections among narrative, writing, and the self that we performed as we read, responded to, analyzed, and wrote about Clarissa and blogs; and 2) offer a series of interpretive claims about how narrative functions as a powerful tool for the construction of a self, especially when that self is built within rhetorical interchange."

  • The Mechanics of New Media (Science) Writing: Articulation, Design, Hospitality, and Electracy

    Nathaniel A. Rivers, Christopher Grabau, Kate T. Kavanaugh, & Katie Zabrowski

    

    "This multimedia project employs and performs the full etymology of articulation—the linguistic, visual, embodied, and mechanical—to describe an advanced undergraduate course in science writing, which focused exclusively on new media storytelling....Each element, produced by a participant in the course, performs the mechanics of new media and can be viewed or heard in any order as they each attempt to stand alone while joining with the others. By design, this webtext can be employed in ways specific to new media science writing specifically or to new media writing more generally."

• PraxisWiki

  • Teaching Students How to Write Teaching Evaluations

    Nick Carbone

    "To write a good a review, students need to know a bit more about the course, which means instructors need to make the learning outcomes for the course clear, need to explain how assignments help students reach those outcomes. Students, in turn, need to think more fully about their responsibilities in courses. And so for them, the review of the course is not just a judgment of the instructor, but also a chance to reflect on their learning, on themselves as learners."

  • Great Debating: Combining Ancient and Contemporary Methods of Peer Critique

    Steven J. Corbett

    "Debates can be used, especially, as dynamic vehicles for peer review and response. Debates also offer the perfect venue for bringing audio and visual technology into the classroom via video. Video recording provides a digital playground for further student-teacher collaboration and reflection. Posting videos to YouTube allows those videos to reach potentially larger audiences."

  • Procedures, Projects, and Programs: Florida State University’s Digital Studio Tutor Handbook

    Josh Mehler, Stephen McElroy, & Jennifer Wells

    "Focusing on the Digital Studio's tutor training program, we note the challenges of enlisting and training new tutors for the Digital Studio. We look at the tutor handbook in-depth, describing the four major components of the text. Finally, we conclude that the approach that we took in this handbook is just one of many for helping tutors understand and put into practice the connections between digital composing tools and rhetoric, a connection that also assists in helping students see common ground between composing alphabetic texts and multimodal texts."

• About Kairos

  Kairos is a refereed open-access online journal exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy. The journal reaches a wide audience -- currently 45,000 readers per month, hailing from Ascension Island to Zimbabwe (and from every top-level domain country code in between); our international readership typically runs about 4,000 readers per month. Kairos publishes bi-annually, in August and January, with occasional special issues in May. Our current acceptance rate for published articles is approximately 10%.

  Since its first issue in January of 1996, the mission of Kairos has been to publish scholarship that examines digital and multimodal composing practices, promoting work that enacts its scholarly argument through rhetorical and innovative uses of new media. Kairos is one of the leading peer-reviewed journals in English Studies, made so by its dedication to academic quality through the journal’s extensive peer-review and editorial production processes.

  We publish "webtexts," which are texts authored specifically for publication on the World Wide Web. Webtexts are scholarly examinations of topics related to technology in English Studies fields (e.g., rhetoric, composition, technical and professional communication, education, creative writing, language and literature) and related fields such as media studies, informatics, arts technology, and others. Besides scholarly webtexts, Kairos publishes teaching-with-technology narratives, reviews of print and digital media, extended interviews with leading scholars, interactive exchanges, "letters" to the editors, and news and announcements of interest.

  Because questions of copyright, intellectual property, and fair use often arise for scholars who wish to create digital publications, we have developed a statement of copyright that encourages authors to carefully consider their rights and responsibilities while advocating for a strengthening of fair use. Our copyright statement also provides authors with the opportunity to build upon and republish their work because we are committed to the continuing development of intellectual work and believe that authors should retain the rights to scholarly production.

  We invite you to share your views about Kairos, and we hope you'll consider submitting your work for our editorial review.

  
  

   —Douglas Eyman, Kairos Senior Editor/Publisher, kairosrtp@gmail.com. Virginia, USA.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Kairos Staff

  • Senior Editors

    • Douglas Eyman
    • Cheryl Ball

  • Editor

    • Michael J. Faris

  • Managing Editors

    • Christopher Andrews
    • Erin Kathleen Bahl

  • Praxis/Wiki
    & Topoi Editors

    • Tim Amidon
    • Elizabeth Fleitz
    • Kristi McDuffie

  • Disputatio Editors

    • Ashley Beardsley
    • Rick Wysocki

  • Reviews Editors

    • Ashanka Kumari
    • Jonathan Marine

  • Interviews Editors

    • Brandy Dieterle
    • Monica F. Jacobe

  • Communications Editors

    • Cameron Cavaliere
    • Vyshali Manivannan

  • Special Projects Editor

    • Traci Gardner
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