Kairos

A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy

ISSN 1521-2300

• Inventio

  • Singer, Writer: A Choric Exploration of Sound and Writing

    Crystal VanKooten

    

    "This text is an experiment with sound and multimodality, with connection and discord. It exposes some meanings and materialities of writing and composing, borrowing the musical concepts chord and fugue. It is an exploration of rhetoric and of chora, an inventional method that is intuited and felt. The webtext is designed to feature this exploration in the form of a video, with written text on subpages that describes the process behind the video's creation."

• Topoi

  • Where Access Meets Multimodality: The Case of ASL Music Videos

    Janine Butler

    
    

    "I use this webtext to demonstrate how ASL music videos can enhance accessible multimodal pedagogies because of the ways that their designers use multimodal strategies to make their compositions more inclusive. I call on instructors and students to analyze ASL music videos and design more accessible multimodal compositions that reach different bodies."

  • Polymorphic Frames of Pre-tenure WPAs: Seven Accounts of Hybridity and Pronoia

    Derek Mueller, Kate Pantelides, Laura Davies, Matt Dowell, Alanna Frost, Mike Garcia, & Rik Hunter

    
    

    "Grounded in a series of local accounts, this webtext examines complex issues facing pre-tenure writing program administrators as they enter the professoriate while negotiating hybrid identities as teachers, researchers, and administrators. Developed out of a roundtable at the 2014 Conference on College Composition and Communication, the project also emphasizes contemporary alternatives to roundtable design that regard openness, accessibility, and persistence as priorities for delivery and circulation."

• Praxis

  • Navigating the Soundscape, Composing with Audio

    Tanya K. Rodrigue, Kate Artz, Julia Bennett, M.P. Carver, Megan Grandmont, Dan Harris, Danah Hashem, Anne Mooney, Mike Rand, & Amy Zimmerman

    
    

    "This webtext is comprised of nine sonic compositions as well as explorations and reflections on, and about, sonic rhetoric and the teaching of it. We have three goals: (1) to contribute to the growing body of scholarship on digital and sonic rhetoric via explorations of sonic rhetorical strategies and a presentation of a new digital pedagogical approach; (2) to offer insight into the complexity of understanding and employing sonic rhetorical strategies as first-time audio composers; and (3) to provide a teaching tool and curricula resource on sonic rhetoric for students in secondary and higher education."

• PraxisWiki

  • Collect, Select, Reflect: Assigning Research Eportfolios to Encourage Student Inquiry

    Jacob W. Craig

  • Digital Dissertations: A Research Story

    Megan Adams & Kristine Blair

  • Blackboard CMS for Large-scale Data Collection

    Thomas Peele

  • Three Ways In: Teaching Visual Rhetoric through Web-Based Infographic Programs

    Marisa Sandoval Lamb, Jenna Sheffield, & Kristin Winet

  • Intervention by Design: Helping Students Build Agency within the Designed Interfaces of Web 2.0

    Katherine Bridgman

  • Transcribe.wreally: Methods for Digital Transcription of Audio

    Mariana Grohowski

• 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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