Kairos

A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy

ISSN 1521-2300

• 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

  • Survey of Open Source Adoption and Usage

    Greetings. We are conducting a preliminary online survey aimed at assessing the role of open source software in the scholarly and pedagogical...Read more.
    (Posted on November 19, 2008)

  • Lift up your heads, O ye gates

    Newly co-published by Furtherfield and The Hyperliterature Exchange: an appreciation of David Daniels, the great shape-poet, who died in May...Read more.
    (Posted on November 17, 2008)

  • Between--Weird Game from Jason Rohrer

    I just found a link to Between, an interesting-sounding game published by Esquire. Here's the snip:read...Read more.
    (Posted on November 16, 2008)

  • Beyond Bootcamp Multimedia Workshops

    Rich Beckman, the new Knight Chair of Visual Journalism at the School of Communication at the University of Miami, started a series of multimedia...Read more.
    (Posted on November 11, 2008)

  • Creative Writing and Comp Jobs (Tenure-Track) at Seton Hill University

    English: Seton Hill University seeks published novelist of popular fiction (preferably mystery/suspense), to teach and to mentor novel-length theses...Read more.
    (Posted on November 11, 2008)