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EDITOR
Mick Doherty

MANAGING EDITOR
Michael J. Salvo

PRODUCTION MANAGER
Jason Cranford Teague

LINKS EDITOR
Greg Siering

NEWS EDITOR
Corey W. Wick

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Kimberly Jo Allison

Claudine Keenan

Sandye Thompson

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From the Links Editor
by Greg Siering

In this discussion of "informed navigational decisions," Siering explores various linking styles and strategies, explains what he calls the "vlink syndrome," and has a suggestion for software developers that could make our linking lives easier.


IN BOX

The Ten Commandments of MOO Pedagogy
Janet Cross and Kristian Fuglevik respond to the Summer 1996 Kairos  Coverweb with a series of suggestions for teachers in MOO-based environments.

Reviewing the Reviewer
Ron Burnett responds to Susan Lang's review of his book, Cultures of Vision: Images, Media and the Imaginary,  in the Summer 1996 issue of Kairos.


COVERWEB

Electro-Pedagogies
Coordinated by Anthony Rue and Jane Love
A collection of teacher/student projects as well as commentary from more established scholars working in the University Center for Excellence in Teaching's Networked Writing Environment program at the University of Florida. The various contributors create, explain, and extrapolate teaching practices responsive to the postmodern, post-industrial, media-saturated environment of which their students are a part.


FEATURES

Surveying the Body Electric, or How Voyeurism Transforms Audience and E-valuation
by Tim Krause,Purdue University

Employing the techniques of "appropriation" and "inversion," Krause demonstrates how the activities of surveillance, voyeurism, and exhibitionism change our definitions of authorship, and asks us to consider how those changes may force us to re-imagine the power we enact and serve in our grading techniques.

Rethinking the Academy: Problems and Possibilities of Teaching, Scholarship, Authority, and Power in Electronic Environments
by Keith Dorwick, University of Illinois-Chicago

What are the problems and possibilities inherent in the academy as it exists in a web of social, political, technological, and legal forces that are mostly beyond its own control? Dorwick emphasizes scholarship and teaching, with a contrast to the problems and possibilities that are increasingly evident as growing numbers of teachers and students begin to experiment with the creation of knowledge in cyberspace.

Hyped-Up for Friends: Cultural Studies and Web Research in Composition
by Michelle Sidler, Purdue University

Are web sites simply hyped-up virtual representations of the American popular experience, decontextualized information wrapped up in unfamiliar space? Sidler demonstrates and discusses the use and usefulness of a cultural studies assignment which explores the ways in which popular visual media reflect--and impact on--larger social, political and economic conditions.



NEWS

InterMOO: Joseph Unger
"Every department needs a Joseph Unger" ... just what do you do when your name becomes a commonplace? Corey Wick and Doug Eyman of Kairos  swap pixels with one of the next-generation standardbearers for departmental technologists working in the Humanities.

Mapping New Rhetorical Spaces: Building Bridges from Current to New Technologies
by Claudine Keenan, George Otte and Peter Sands

The three authors tell stories from the recent Epiphany Summer Institutes, held in Newark, NJ and in Richmond, VA.

This Place Is Y/our Space; This Space is Y/our Place
by Jane Lasarenko, Dene Grigar, and Alan Rea

The authors present a call for action regarding the issues involved with establishing unified, but evolving, standards for electronic scholarship.

Calls For Participation
Opportunities to share scholarship in communications-related fields of study.


REVIEWS

The E-List: Resource Reviews For Teachers of Writing
Coordinated by Sandra Thompson and Camille Langston, Texas Woman's University

Michael Joyce's Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics
Reviewed by Allan Heaps, Michigan Technological University

Beth Baldwin's Conversations: Computer-Mediated Dialogue, Multilogue and Learning
Reviewed by Morgan Gresham and Mike Jackman, University of Louisville

Nick Carbone's and Eric Crump's English Online: A Student's Guide to the Internet and World Wide Web
Reviewed by Ted Nellen, New York City's Murry Bergtraum High School

CommonSpace
Software review by Nancy Tucker, University of Michigan-Flint


PIXELATED RHETORICS

Autumn 1996
How can Kairos  become more interactive? Help us decide the kinds of changes we'll be making as we close out our first volume of publication and head into 1997.