Kairos

A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy

ISSN 1521-2300

• CoverWeb

  • Multimodality in Motion: Disability & Kairotic Spaces

    M. Remi Yergeau, Elizabeth Brewer, Stephanie Kerschbaum, Sushil K. Oswal, Margaret Price, Cynthia L. Selfe, Michael J. Salvo, Franny Howes

    
    

    "Traversing public and private spaces inevitably means finding a way to access those spaces. This simple fact is thrown into relief for those who experience barriers to access, and often unnoticed by those whose bodies, minds, abilities, and resources allow them to occupy the role of default user. Multimodality has been discussed at length as a means to enhance access to the public and private spaces through which we and our writing move. However, we argue that multimodality as it is commonly used implies an ableist understanding of the human composer. Our webtext seeks to redress this problem."

  • Suggested Practices for Syllabus Accessibility Statements

    Tara Wood and Shannon Madden

    
    

    "Students with disabilities, especially those whose needs may not be met under the minimum legal guidelines for accommodations, can glean a lot from the accommodation statement in the syllabus about how the instructor approaches disability; this statement reveals the teacher's ethos as well as her attitude toward issues of access. "

• Inventio

  • iPad Invention: Reflections on "A Thrilla in ManiLA"

    Geoffrey V. Carter

    

    A reflection on A Thrilla in ManiLA (Kairos 17.2), this work examines the challenges and pleasures of composing a work on an iPad 2, a device that is not often recognized for its digital composing potential. This Inventio piece features a voice-over narration that talks about the process of composing and collects a series of related links (gathered below) that reveal earlier stages in the composing process.

• PraxisWiki

  • Developing Critical Literacy and Critical Thinking through Facebook

    David T. Coad

    

    "The approaches detailed here offer a pattern for helping students think critically about the human forces they interact with on Facebook. I argue that this kind of critical thinking about human forces is an important key to having a lasting impact on our students' future communicative practices."

• Disputatio

  • Prezi Design Strategies

    Shawn Apostel

    

    A Prezi about designing with Prezi, focusing on space, line, shape, tone, color, movement, and rhythm.

• 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
    • Elkie Burnside
    • Elizabeth Fleitz
    • Kristi McDuffie

  • Disputatio Editor

    • Rick Wysocki

  • Inventio Editors

    • Elizabeth Chamberlain
    • Rich Shivener

  • 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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