Kairos

A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy

ISSN 1521-2300

• Disputatio

  • How I Learned to Love DESPAIR: Using Simulation Video Games for Advocacy and Change

    Way Jeng

    

    Inspired by games such as the various Tycoon titles, DESPAIR (Department of English Simulated Problematic Adjunct Instructor Relations) puts players in the role of a Writing Program Administrator (WPA) in order to shed light on the plight of contingent labor in the writing classroom and within the larger institutional framework. The game's alternate mode, UPLIFT (Utopian Potential for Life with Instructors at Full Time), provides an example of a way academics might use simulation games to advocate for change in an affirmative manner by demonstrating how alternatives might work.

• Topoi

  • Visualizing Obama Hope: A Data Visualization Project for Mapping Visual Rhetorics

    Laurie Gries

    
    

    Digital visualization techniques offer rich possibilities for visual rhetoric and circulation studies. This webtext applies visualization techniques to 1000 various forms of the Shepard Fairey Obama Hope image to reveals wide and diverse circulation and modification beyond its original political purposes, demonstrating how such methods can help rhetoricians better account for the transnational flows, circulation, and rhetorical applications of viral images through iconographic tracking.

  • A Feminist Approach to Social Media

    Alexandra Hidalgo & Katie Grimes

    
    

    In this webtext, Hidalgo and Grimes respond to Kristine Blair’s call to make online spaces more hospitable to women’s social professional and political goals by developing six social media guidelines rooted in feminism. They argue that feminism provides key insights on how to create online communication styles that foster positive and productive interactions.

  • The Deepwater Horizon Roadkill Tollbooth

    Sean Morey

    
    

    ""The Roadkill Tollbooth is a MEmorial, and focuses on public policy issues concerning domestic oil production and consumption through a digital, conceptual, and affective mapping of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, offering an alternative to how we communicate our individual and collective responses to such a disaster.""

• Praxis

  • On Multimodal Composing

    Sara P. Alvarez, Michael Baumann, Michelle Day, Khirsten L. Echols, Layne M. P. Gordon, Ashanka Kumari, Laura Sceniak Matravers, Jessica Newman, Amy McCleese Nichols, Caitlin E. Ray, Jon Udelson, Rick Wysocki, & Dànielle DeVoss

    
    

    What does composing look like in and across digital, networked spaces and the physical spaces our bodies inhabit as we compose? What does multimodal composing look like as we choreograph alphabetic text, images, sound, video, and more? In this project, the authors take on these questions as they capture and share their composing processes across mediums, platforms, localities, and languages.

• PraxisWiki

  • Using ELAN Video Coding Software to Visualize the Rhetorics of Translation

    Laura Gonzales

  • Using Evernote to Encourage and Monitor Student Research

    Steve Marsden

  • Critical Exploration of Learning Management Systems

    A. Nicole Pfannenstiel, Tenie Zarifian, & Jordan Watson

  • 3D Interviewing with Researcher POV Video: Bodies and Knowledge in the Making

    Ann Shivers-McNair

• 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

  • Editor

    • Michael J. Faris

  • Managing Editors

    • Christopher Andrews
    • Erin Kathleen Bahl

  • Praxis/Wiki
    & Topoi Editors

    • Tim Amidon
    • Elizabeth Fleitz
    • Kristi McDuffie

  • Disputatio Editors

    • Ashley Beardsley
    • Rick Wysocki

  • Reviews Editors

    • Ashanka Kumari
    • Jonathan Marine

  • Interviews Editors

    • Brandy Dieterle
    • Monica F. Jacobe

  • Communications Editors

    • Cameron Cavaliere
    • Vyshali Manivannan

  • Special Projects Editor

    • Traci Gardner
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