Kairos

A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy

ISSN 1521-2300

• CoverWeb

  • Special Issue: Ownership, Authorship, & Copyright

    Guest Editors: Karen J. Lunsford, John Logie, TyAnna Herrington
    Coverweb Design by Erika B. Carlos

    

     
    Introduction
    A Copyleft Manifesto
    In Memory of Ty Herrington

• Disputatio

  • A Perspective on Modding and Ownership

    Samuel Jackson Fuller

    

    Videogame modders are legally disenfranchised when it comes to owning what they create, but an ethical solution exists: let modders claim ownership of the mods they create but require that their work be labeled as "unofficial." This solution would create new opportunities for productive partnerships between gamers and the videogame industry based on equitability and mutual respect.

• Topoi

  • Copyright, Content, & Control: Student Authorship Across Educational Technology Platforms

    Timothy R. Amidon, Les Hutchinson, TyAnna Herrington, & Jessica Reyman

    

    This webtext considers how educational technology platforms challenge student authorship and ownership, focusing on three platforms: Turnitin, Twitter, and Canvas. These platforms represent a range of platform types—a plagiarism detection system, a social media platform, and a learning management system—and support an assortment of composing practices and platform-based interactions that give rise to tensions in authorship.

  • What Monkeys Teach Us about Authorship: Toward a Distributed Agency in Digital Composing Practices

    Jialei Jiang

    

    This webtext explores the pedagogical possibilities of teaching with and through "monkey selfies" as the issue of animal authorship and copyright opens up new pedagogical avenues for challenging the static and fixed views of authorship in composing practices.

  • Mapping the IP Landscape: Reflections on Ownership, Authorship, & Copyright for Writing Instruction

    Karen J. Lunsford, James P. Purdy, & Erika B. Carlos

    

    This webtext presents excerpts from recorded interviews with seventeen writing studies practitioners that provide examples of the different, considered approaches to intellectual property that they adopt.

  • Stories of Plagiarism / Theories of Writing: How Public Cases of Plagiarism Reveal Circulating Theories of Writing

    Alexis Teagarden

    

    Given decades of stalemate, one could be forgiven for thinking plagiarism is best left an agree-to-disagree issue, best handled by in-house amelioration. Yet, one facet of plagiarism appears intriguing and overlooked: the arguments that surround public figures charged with plagiarism. Such debates bring to light the often invisible commonplaces about writing.

• Praxis

  • Collaboration and/against Copyright: Notes Home from the Information Technology Revolution’s Battlefield

    Daniel Frank, Firasat Jabeen, Eda Ozyesilpinar, Joshua Wood, & Nathan Riggs

    

    This webtext approaches the notion of copyright as a counter-revolutionary tool abused by the corporate politics of global capital and its power networks. We, the authors of this webtext, respond to the triangle of revolution, copyright, and counter-revolution.

• 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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