Kairos

A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy

ISSN 1521-2300

• Topoi

  • i'm like ... professional

    bonnie kyburz

    

    "Given that my film is exploring a punk ethos that attends DIY filmmaking, I decided that the rough nature of the video created appropriate content...these are the sorts of details that reveal the complex, cinéma vérité nature of the DIY experience."

  • Typographia: A Hybrid, Alphabetic Exploration of Raleigh, NC

    David Rieder

    

    "As compositionists delve more deeply into the material and technical dimensions of digital media, the contemporary arts should be valued as a source for new approaches to hybrid forms of writing and textuality." In addition to Typographia, this work includes a companion essay (PDF): From Street to Software: How a Lettered Flâneur Invented a Hybrid Rhetoric.

  • On Violence Against Objects: A Visual Chord

    David J. Staley

    

    On Violence Against Objects is best viewed over several minutes; allow the images to go through several iterations in order to see as many juxtapositions as possible.The visual argument of the work emerges as the viewer perceives analogies between the various images.

• Praxis

  • PraxisWiki: For a Wiki, Click Here: Choose Your Own Adventure Stories as a Pedagogical Match for Wiki Interfaces

    Matthew Newcomb & Amy Nimon

• Disputatio

  • Custom Orthotics Changed My Life

    Richard Holeton

    

    The narrator relates his life's downward spiral and miraculous rebound from severe foot problems using animated bullet points, images, charts, and graphs. "Custom Orthotics Changed My Life" is a work of presentation fiction, or slideshow fiction, in the form of a video with an original soundtrack. The music was composed by David Kettler, a Stanford undergraduate in the Symbolic Systems Program and the Program in Music, Science, and Technology.

  • Desktop MCing

    Spencer Schaffner

    

    Desktop MCs work in the space of the desktop, choreographing content using multiple applications. For the desktop MC, new technologies allow for new combinatory forms of composition.

  
  
  

• 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

  • Editors

    • Michael J. Faris
    • Christopher Andrews
    • Erin Kathleen Bahl

  • Managing Editors

    • Christopher Andrews
    • Erin Kathleen Bahl
    • Elizabeth Fleitz

  • Technical Editor

    • Rick Wysocki

  • Praxis/Wiki
    & Topoi Editors

    • Tim Amidon
    • Elizabeth Fleitz
    • Kristi McDuffie

  • Disputatio Editors

    • Ashley Beardsley
    • Rick Wysocki

  • Inventio Editor

    • Anastasia Salter

  • Reviews Editors

    • Ashanka Kumari
    • Jonathan Marine

  • Interviews Editors

    • Brandy Dieterle
    • Monica F. Jacobe

  • Communications Editors

    • Cameron Cavaliere
    • Vyshali Manivannan
  •