Kairos

A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy

ISSN 1521-2300

• Disputatio

  • Stream-lining Collaboration: Participatory Composition and Twitch

    Zack Shaw

    

    This video project considers participatory composition and media platforms like YouTube and Twitch, primarily focusing on how the latter’s infrastructure promotes online community participation and collaborative narratives. Viewers develop an understanding of the technology and together expand upon their media literacies engagements through textual, verbal, aural, and multimodal communication.

• Topoi

  • Identity and Representation in the 2017 Disability March

    Talea Anderson

    

    Close and distant readings are used as an analytical framework to better understand visual and linguistic representations of disability that appeared in the 2017 Disability March, presented through a webtext that isn’t perfectly accessible. The juxtaposition between inclusive narratives and inaccessible structures is explored via videos about the design choices made by the author that can serve to welcome or distance readers with diverse abilities.

  • Women, Healing, and Social Community: Cyberfeminist Activities on Reddit

    Meghan McGuire

    

    Although reddit is a male-dominated space and is often considered problematically gendered, women with Polycystic Ovarian Syndome have created a subreddit for supportive discussion of living with their illness. This webtext investigates this contradiction of users on reddit and contends that women have embraced reddit as a space for cyberfeminist activity through their PCOS subreddit.

  • What Do First-Year Writing Students Find Reliable in Online Source Material?

    Elise Silva, Jessica Green, & Michael Mendoza

    

    This webtext reports on research conducted at Brigham Young University in the summer of 2017 about source evaluation methods used by first-year writing students. Librarians used several methods to study how students rate online source reliability including voice recordings, screen recordings, and open response tests. This webtext provides a visual landscape of how students interacted with the articles we asked them to evaluate.

• Inventio

  • Dancing Across Media: Composing the Odissi Body

    Kaustavi Sarkar & Erin Kathleen Bahl

    

    This webtext curates three artistic transpositions of Odissi, an eastern Indian classical dance form, from live movement to digital embodiment. The authors investigate three representations of recorded movement data and explore these variations' affordances and constraints as online avatars for the embodied Odissi dancer, framed by the dancer's reflections on her experience as both dancer and digital composer.

• Praxis

  • The Writing Center Blogs Project

    Julia Bleakney, Michelle Hager, & Maria Judnick

    

    Through an analysis of over 40 writing center blogs, this webtext offers an overview of the current status of blog use in writing centers, and a guide to best practices that incorporates survey responses from the writing center professionals who maintain exemplary blogs.

  • Student-Teacher Conferencing in Zoom: Asymmetrical Collaboration in a Digital Space/(Non)Place

    Mary Stewart

    

    This webtext presents video recordings of writing conferences with two students in a lower-division online research writing course, analyzed in light of online writing instruction and writing center scholarship on synchronous conferencing—specifically considering the extent to which students in the conference practice or acquire digital literacy skills, benefit from the immediacy of the interaction, and experience an asymmetrical power dynamic.

• PraxisWiki

  • Using Data Visualization to Analyze Big Data in Social Networks

    Tracey Hayes

  • Assigning Graduate Student Digital Co-Authorship: A Student's Perspective

    Krista Speicher Sarraf

• 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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