Kairos

A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy

ISSN 1521-2300

• Inventio

  • The Lo-Fi Manifesto, v. 2.0

    Karl Stolley

    

    "Those who teach have [a] responsibility to learn and then engage students with digital approaches and technologies that students themselves would not likely discover independently. Students must be afforded the opportunity to write markup, programs, APIs, and commit messages in the same range of learning situations as they write essays and exams today."

• Topoi

  • The Roots of an Academic Genealogy: Composing the Writing Studies Tree

    Benjamin Miller, Amanda Licastro, & Jill Belli

    
    

    "We explore the design of the Writing Studies Tree prototype as an intervention in both writing studies and the study of academic genealogy. We articulate the many exigencies for the project and explain the design choices we have made in response. Finally, we argue for data-driven academic genealogy as a valuable framework for understanding how influence circulates within writing studies."

  • Writing in an Age of Surveillance, Privacy, & Net Neutrality

    Estee N. Beck, Angela Crow, Heidi A. McKee, Colleen A. Reilly, Jennifer deWinter, Stephanie Vie, Laura Gonzales, & Dànielle Nicole DeVoss

    
    

    "The Web is big business, and our online communications and interactions and the data they leave behind are commodified by big business. Large-scale data aggregators, natural language systems that code and collect billions of posts, and tracking systems that follow our every click have fundamentally changed the spaces and places in which we compose, create, interact, research, and teach."

  • Access/ibility: Access and Usability for Digital Publishing

    Douglas Eyman, Cheryl E. Ball, Jeremy Boggs, Amanda K. Booher, Elkie Burnside, Scott Lloyd DeWitt, Jason Dockter, Jay Dolmage, Traci Gardner, Sara Georgi, Hal Hinderliter, Susan Ivey, Michael Keller, Rachael Kelley, Sarah Kennedy, Rebecca Kennison, Pamela McClanahan, Alex Ries, Kassi Roberts, Melanie Schlosser, Karl Stolley, John Paul Walter, George H. Williams, M. Remi Yergeau, & Sean Zdenek

    
    

    "Our goal is to map the relationships between global open-access publishing, the accessibility of those publications to diverse users, and sustainability and preservation of digitally published and archived texts, in all their designed formats and media. We are short-handing these concepts through the word "access/ibility," which we take to encompass open access, access and preservation, and accessibility in terms of availability, usability, and disability."

• PraxisWiki

  • Digital Fénéon: Experiments with Style

    Moe Folk

• 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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