Kairos

A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy

ISSN 1521-2300

• Topoi

  • Expanding the Space of f2f: Writing Centers and Audio-Visual-Textual Conferencing

    Melanie Yergeau, Kathryn Wozniak, and Peter Vandenberg

    

    Able to link tutors across distance while closely approximating the tenor of face-to-face tutoring (f2f), synchronous audio-video-textual conferencing (AVT) is a semiotically rich medium that sustains critical “social cues” and enhances interaction and exchange. The authors theorize and demonstrate the potential of synchronous digital exchange, including functions that surpass the affordances of paper-based f2f tutorials—such as real-time modeling and web-based referencing.

• Inventio

  • Pulling the Difference: Re-envisioning Journals' Negotiations of New Media Scholarship

    Patricia Webb Boyd

    

    This webtext is a rethinking of "Writing and Publishing in the Boundaries: Academic Writing in/through The Virtual Age," originally published in The Writing Instructor in 2001.

• Praxis

  • Digital Technology and English Pedagogy: From Traditional Essays to a Fabric of Digital Text

    David Ciccoricco and Billy O'Steen

    

    This study is intended to explore the learning outcomes of an English course in which digital texts become both the object of study and the means of assessment. The authors suggest the web project serves as a possible example of a transitional pedagogy where two ways of organizing and presenting information — of writing — are used simultaneously and toward mutually enhancing ends.

• Disputatio

  • Inventing/Producing Columbus: A New Humanities Remix

    Shannon Mondor and Angela Rounsaville

    

    This webtext takes up Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT), as developed in Paul Prior et. al (2006),” by re-presenting key concepts in Prior’s core text using different media and modalities and illustrating our invention processes as we worked to demonstrate those concepts.

  • Digital Media and Composition: DMAC Theory 2008

    Ryan Omizo

    

    How do we as scholars of rhetoric, composition, and digital media do digital media theory? How do we develop these theories and put them into action in digital media?

  • An "A" Word Production: Authentic Design

    Douglas Walls

    

    “Authentic Design” is an attempt to convey a sense of playfulness and frustration, along with a hefty warning to digital writing scholars: We need to understand that meaning is not inherent in our tools (writing, media, ideas, language) nor does meaning reside in ourselves.

• 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 occassion 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. Now in its 12th year of continuous publication, 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.

• Kairos Staff

  • Senior Editor

    • Douglas Eyman

  • Editor

    • Cheryl Ball

  • Associate Editor

    • Mike Edwards

  • Praxis Editors

    • Envera Dukaj
    • Alex Reid

  • Inventio Editors

    • Madeleine Sorapure
    • Karl Stolley

  • Reviews Editors

    • Laura McGrath
    • Joddy Murray

  • Interviews Editors

    • D. Alexis Hart
    • Margaret M. Strain

  • News Editor

    • Charlie Lowe

  • Communications Editors

    • Erin Karper
    • Deborah Morton

• Kairosnews.org

  • Researchers: written English language will weather LOL storm

    Ars Technica reports on a recent study which shows that instant messaging may not be ruining students' writing abilities after all as many might...Read On
    (Posted May 14, 2008)

  • WordHustler

    Full disclosure: one of the founders of this site, due to launch May 19, is a former student of mine. But here's an interesting re-mediation: Web...Read On
    (Posted May 14, 2008)

  • Microsoft Word 2007 Automates "Complain about Teacher"

    I was browsing the template library of Office 2007 today when I came across an interesting "academic" letter template: "Complaint about Teacher." The...Read On
    (Posted May 13, 2008)

  • The Puzzle Box, Chapter 4

    "Urizen separated out a region from the rest of eternity, shrank it into solid matter, weighed it in his scales, measured it with his rods and...Read On
    (Posted May 12, 2008)

  • OpenOffice 3.0 beta Released for Mac OS X

    OpenOffice.org has released public beta 3.0, which includes native OS X support (previous betas required an X11 installation). The beta is intel...Read On
    (Posted May 09, 2008)