Kairos

A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy

ISSN 1521-2300

• Topoi

  • Designing Captions: Disruptive Experiments with Typography, Color, Icons, and Effects

    Sean Zdenek

    

    Zdenek experiments with "novel forms of audiovisual accessibility. Enhanced captioning (also called kinetic, embodied, integral, dynamic, and animated captioning) offers radical alternatives to the taken-for-granted landscape of captioning and sonic accessibility."

• Inventio

  • Making Comics as Scholarship: A Reflection on the Process behind DHQ 9.4

    Anastasia Salter, Roger Whitson, & Jason Helms

    

    The authors describe the process of editing a special issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly focused on Comics as Scholarship, reflecting on the complications for scholarly practice and editorial assumptions when working with scholarly comics.

  • Making Rhizcomics

    Jason Helms

    

    Helms reflects on his process of developing and producing Rhizcomics, a born-digital monograph, and argues that "writers of digital scholarly monographs must pay special attention to the eventual form of their work at every stage, from writing a proposal to eventual publication."

• PraxisWiki

  • User Testing Student ePortfolios: An Activity for Peer Reviewing Showcase ePortfolios and Raising Audience Awareness

    Jenae Druckman Cohn

• 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
    • Elkie Burnside
    • Elizabeth Fleitz
    • Kristi McDuffie

  • Disputatio Editor

    • Rick Wysocki

  • Inventio Editors

    • Elizabeth Chamberlain
    • Rich Shivener

  • 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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