Kairos

A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy

ISSN 1521-2300

• Disputatio

  • Caring for the Future: Initiatives for Further Inclusion in Computers and Writing

    Janine Butler, Joseph Cirio, Victor Del Hierro, Laura Gonzales, Joy Robinson, & Angela Haas

    

    Winners of the Gail E. Hawisher & Cynthia L. Selfe Caring for the Future Scholarship share their experiences and their suggestions for increasing diversity and inclusion in the Computers and Writing community.

  • The Terrain Less Traveled

    Margaret A. Moore

    

    Moore shares her experiences using a wheelchair to navigate space to argue that a wheelchair allows for an adventurous life. Her video was composed using her Assistive and Augmentative Communication (AAC) device and her camera and iMovie on her iPhone.

  • Transmodality in Action: A Manifesto

    Kate Artz, Danah Hashem, Anne Mooney

    

    A collaboratively created manifesto on the value and complexity of transmodal composition, this webtext includes three variant forms: an alphabetic statement (structurally modeled after the Riot Grrrl Manifesto), an audio discussion (composed as a podcast), and a video trailer (in the style of a movie trailer).

• Topoi

  • Visualizing Digital Seriality or: All Your Mods Are Belong to Us!

    Shane Denson

    
    

    "Visualizing Digital Seriality" explores the modding community surrounding video games through a case study exploring how serialization relates to digital cultures. Through a series of data visualizations, the topic of seriality and methods of distant reading are offered to enhance critical code studies through digital humanities methods."

  • Augmented Vélorutionaries: Digital Rhetoric, Memorials, and Public Discourse

    Madison Jones & Jacob Greene

    
    

    "Ghost bikes function as MEmorials, or a public acknowledgement of the unspoken costs of petrocultural values. However, ghost bikes are temporary monuments: they are often stolen or taken down by public authorities within just a few days or weeks after their installation. We created the mobile augmented reality experience “Death Drive(r)s: Ghost Bike (Monu)mentality” to visualize MEmorials of ghost bikes digitally."

  • Augmented Learning Spaces for Sustainable Futures: Encounters between Design and Rhetoric in Shaping Nomadic Pedagogy

    Bruce Snaddon, Andrew Morrison, & Andrea Grant Broom

    
    

    "Methodologically, this webtext takes up a diversity of modes of making, documenting and reflecting on this shared learning journey, including photography, interviews, participant observation, and a documentary film. This is conveyed through a spatial rhetoric that is designed to evince and allow access to different thematics and elements in the interface so that readers—students, educators, researchers—may differentially traverse the multimodal account of the learning journey."

• Inventio

  • Remediating the CCCC Chair's Address for Video

    Michael J. Faris, Sarah E. Austin, Erica M. Stone, & Joyce Locke Carter

    

    This webtext shares the invention practices and processes of two students in Michael Faris's 2016 two-week New Media Rhetoric graduate course, Sarah E. Austin and Erica M. Stone, who were tasked with creating a video of Joyce Locke Carter's 2016 College on Composition and Communication (CCCC) Chair's Address.

• Praxis

  • Affective Connections to Place: Digital Storytelling in the Classroom

    Megan Adams

    
    

    Adams uses students’ video compositions, interviews, and written reflections of their work in a rural community to examine the affordances of audio-visual composing in assisting students to connect to cultural and geographic communities outside of campus and to interrogate their own personal perceptions of and connections to place.

• PraxisWiki

  • "That Looks Weird": Analyzing the Rhetoric and Technology of Websites Over Time with Critical Genre Awareness

    Marcy Leasum Orwig

  • Critics and Cartographers in the Classroom: Using CARTO and WordPress to Build a Digital Public Writing Project

    J. Bret Maney

  • Digital Badges in the First-Year Composition Classroom

    Spencer Smith

• 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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