Kairos

A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy

ISSN 1521-2300

• Disputatio

  • Multimodal Composing, Sketchnotes, and Idea Generation

    Kendra Andrews, illustrated by T. Mark Bentley

    

    Using the mixed media of sketch notes, animation, and voiceover, this video explores the field of composition’s relationship between multimodality and composing. The piece illustrates how multimodal strategies such as sketchnotes can enhance idea generation and learning and provide classroom stategies for multimodal composition.

  • POOC Yourself

    Paul Muhlhauser & Daniel Schafer

    

    POOC assignments enable students to step in and out of different important economies that interact in a post-truthy world: the attention economy (engaging viewers with content), information economy (finding info to create the university), reputation economy (developing ethos), and trust economy (learning how to trust others by vetting).

  • Welcome to the Letters of Anna Calhoun Clemson

    Stephen Quigley

    

    This project challenges the dominant narrative a state university utilizes to describe its namesake. The project curates a selection of primary source documents set in juxtaposition to myriad other texts, images, and videos, all working in conjunction to complicate the scene of learning at this university and in this state.

• Topoi

  • A Multisensory Literacy Approach to Biomedical Healthcare Technologies: Aural, Tactile, and Visual Layered Health Literacies

    Kristin Marie Bivens, Lora Arduser, Candice A. Welhausen, & Michael J. Faris

    
    

    Health literacy is an embodied, multisensory experience that is invariably mediated by healthcare technologies. We illustrate this concept through three case studies that describe scenarios in which non-experts and lay experts engage in non-discursive literacy practices: parents caring for an infant in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), people with type 1 diabetes (T1D) self-managing their treatment, and public audiences reporting symptoms to a crowd-sourced flu-tracking program.

  • A Distant View of English Journal, 1912-2012

    Jason Palmeri & Ben McCorkle

    
    

    Distant reading and related data-driven methodologies illuminate previously unrecognized trends in how the discipline of English has incorporated, resisted, and naturalized new media technologies.

• Praxis

  • Navigating Shifting Social Media Networks: An Ecological Approach to Anonymous Mobile Applications

    Erin Brock Carlson

    
    

    Using anonymous, location-based social media applications in the writing classroom can heighten student awareness of other situational factors online, such as time, place, and feeling. By engaging with student posts and their accompanying reflections, this text argues for the use of anonymous social media applications in our pedagogy to help students engage ethically in digital spaces.

  • S.E.E.D.: Creating and Implementing an Alternate Reality

    Philip Ehrenberg, Patrick Jagoda, & Melissa Gilliam

    
    

    This webtext explores the educational and social potential of Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) by describing and analyzing the design, curriculum, and objectives of an ARG entitled S.E.E.D. This webtext uses some of the transmedia assets that made the game itself possible, as well as video documentation of the game, to provide an account of this genre and its affordances.

  • Building Rhetoric One Bit at a Time: A Case of Maker Rhetoric with littleBits

    Michael J. Faris, Andrew M. Blick, Jack T. Labriola, Leslie Hankey, Jamie May, & Richard T. Mangum

    
    

    In this webtext, we share our experiences in a new media graduate course in which students played and experimented with littleBits (modular circuitry designed for easy invention). Modular three-dimensional objects provide opportunities to introduce new media to students in ways that disrupt their conventional practices of invention, provide opportunities to explore rhetorical practice as play, and refigure creation as remix and craft.

• PraxisWiki

  • The Markdown Movement: Writing's Influence on Markdown

    Aaron Beveridge

  • Twitter Bots As Digital Writing Assignments

    Rachael Graham Lussos

  • Twitter Archives: A Discussion of Systems, Methods, Visualizations, and Ethics

    William I. Wolff