Kairos

A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy

ISSN 1521-2300

• Topoi

  • This is Scholarship

    Catherine C. Braun and Kenneth L. Gilbert

    

    “This Is Scholarship” is a movie that provides examples of different forms of scholarship that exist online, arguing that existing online scholarship is multiple and varied enough already that a more flexible definition of scholarship has emerged, even if it is not yet valued by many tenure-granting units. The movie further argues that these examples can guide tenure and promotion committees in creating new procedures for evaluating this new scholarship, and it offers suggestions for how to begin to build new values into tenure and promotion policies.

  • Old+Old+Old=New: A Copyright Manifesto for the Digital World

    DigiRhet

    

    We are a collective that believes that it is time for more of us in rhetoric and composition, and computers and writing specifically, to have a louder voice and a more persuasive say in the intellectual property debates going on in our culture and in our world.

  • From Gallery to Webtext

    Curated by Virginia Kuhn and Victor Vitanza

    

    Sarah Arroyo: Hands & Writing: A Digital Sample
    Geof Carter: PlatesPleatsPetals
    Byron Hawk: Rhetoric of Revolution (Open Hand Remix)
    Virginia Kuhn: The Components of Scholarly Multimedia
    Bonnie Kyburz: Bones
    Robert Leston: Into the After.word with Victor Vitanza
    Timothy Richardson: Bereshith
    Victor Vitanza: Writing the Tic
    

  • Literature and Digital Illumination

    Lis Lindeman and Gregory O. Smith

    

    Friends and colleagues in literature programs often have assumptions and apprehensions about using digital media to teach traditional texts. These assumptions deal with (1) the status of the printed text, (2) the relationship between literature and composition, and (3) pedagogical concerns

  • An Inconvenient Rhetorical Truth: A Rhetorical Warming of the Public Sphere

    Ted Remington

    

    Just as greenhouse gasses added to the earth's atmosphere create unpleasant climate changes, my thesis here is that the addition of corporate money and influence in them media is creating unpleasant rhetorical changes in our public sphere's climate.

  • Urban Literacy Center Manifesto

    Spencer Schaffner

    

    On September 12, 2007, a multi-part text titled the "Urban Literacy Center Manifesto" was found affixed to an abandoned city building. Through snapshots, text, audio, and video, this site attempts to preserve and contextualize the handwritten manifesto, seeing it as an attempt to transform passersby into advocates for literate activism.

  • The Lo-Fi Manifesto

    Karl Stolley

    

    Digital scholars in the loosely defined fields of rhetoric and composition, computers and writing, and technical communication should create free and open source artifacts that are software-and device-independent. Discourse posted on the open Web can hardly be considered free if access requires costly software or particular devices.

  • Words are the Ultimate Abstraction

    Robert Watkins

    

    Students are exposed to multimedia daily, and to deny the argumentative powers involved in these newer media is cheating students. Embracing these art forms could spark interest in otherwise dormant writers. As composition teachers, our job is to teach argument(s) through texts. It is essential that we recognize all facets and genres that texts reach. Embracing multimedia may be the key to awakening the next generation of compositionists.

• 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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