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Overview of Upcoming Changes and Projects

 

We’ve described quite a few new and big changes that the journal is undergoing, and we’ve hinted at some of the other changes that will be taking place. In this section of the Logging On column, we want to provide readers with a sneak-peak at some of those additional changes. While we don’t yet know how (or whether) all of these projects will work out, we present them here to let you know that our vision extends beyond one anniversary issue and, moreover, so that we can hear from you regarding comments you might have about these projects or about any projects you think Kairos should undertake in the future. After all, we are your journal, so let us know what you think!

  • The journal is considering whether to seek non-profit status, which will enable it to compete for grants and professional development monies that will help the staff and editorial board continue to learn changing technologies (and to pass on that knowledge to authors participating in mentorships).
  • Kairos will require its authors to use the APA citation style for in-text and reference citations on all webtexts except those where the author can support a reasoned argument for a different or more innovative citation style—in accordance with the form and content of the webtext overall.
  • The journal will undergo a major redesign. This change will include use of a content-management system that will support more reader interaction in each issue while retaining the best of Kairos’ look and feel. As part of this change, content that was once fairly hidden (e.g., explanation of the peer-review system, the FAQ, the section editors’ letters introducing each issue, and projects like the Kairos Awards, etc.) will be featured more prominently in the navigational system.
  • Starting next summer, Will Hochman and his team of CCCC reviewers will be contributing their reviews to Kairos (a move from another online journal, Across the Disciplines), which will help Kairos to broaden its readership. These conference reviews will appear in the Reviews section of special summer issues—in addition to themed content in Topoi (if it’s a guest-edited issue) or on their own. 
  • The journal will be marketed to new readers and reaffirming its value to established readers, keeping Kairos at the center of scholarly publishing on rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy. We will do this by locating Kairos in broader bibliographic resources and thus enhancing the journal’s visibility in these scholarly references.
  • The journal staff will create and initiate student internship opportunities that keep Kairos in the forefront as a journal that values and mentors pre-professional scholars, researchers, and educators in the field.

Certainly, these are a lot of changes, and we’re eager to get started on them. We believe that now is the appropriate moment for Kairos—poised on its next ten years—to jump into newness once again and reinvigorate itself. Much thought has gone into these developments, and we hope that you, our readers, are pleased. We encourage you to share your thoughts with us—about the staff and editorial changes, proposed projects, and possible submissions. In addition, we hope you will join us in anticipating Kairos’ next 10 years. But, before we jump headlong into the next decade, we must remember and celebrate the last 10 years—the journal’s foundation, instrumental decisions, and influential moments that we all—as staff, readers, authors, reviewers, and (always) newcomers—have come to experience as part of the Kairos community.

Overview

 

Kairos 11.1

Vol. 11 Iss. 1 Fall 2006