Kairos

A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy

ISSN 1521-2300

• Disputatio

  • Composing the Sonic Sacred: Podcasting as Faith-based Activism

    Jonathan W. Stone

    

    My argument in this sonic disputatio is that activism within conservative religious traditions is a crucial, if often overlooked, form of social change. In recent years, conservative Christianity has become subject to increased scrutiny due to what many see as antiquated and even discriminatory beliefs and practices; because questioning religious dogma in a church setting can be treacherous, emerging online platforms have become a safe place to discuss faith, doubt, and religious dissolution.

• Topoi

  • Testimonios and Turntables: Claiming Our Narratives through Sound and Space

    Vanessa Aguilar, Stephany Bravo, Todd Craig, Jared Milburn, Emery Petchauer, Eric Rodriguez, Cecilia Valenzuela & Magnolia Landa-Posas

    

    "Terrible Melodies Telling Me Beautiful Things" by Eric Manuel Rodriguez
    "AudioVoice: A Relational, Subaltern Praxis of Listening to Testimonios and Composing with Sound" by Cecilia Valenzuela and Magnolia Landa-Posas
    "Black Sound Matter(s): The Sonic Soundscape of Black Auditory Liberation" by Todd Craig
    "Breaking and Making: An Introduction" by Emery Petchauer
    "Sunk in the Method: There's a Groove to the Theory" by Jared D. Milburn
    "TEST-TEST-TESTIMONIALISTA: Stories of Sound, Space, Place, and the Body in Compton" by Stephany Bravo
    "Summoning Duende: Afro-Diasporic Religious Listening Practices in Funkadelic and Childish Gambino's Music" by Vanessa J. Aguilar

  • Filling In the Gaps: Primary Voices of Japanese American Incarceration

    S.D.C. Parker

    

    This webtext identifies how vocal rhetoric can contribute to the emotional attachment of public memory and argues for the importance of voices to the history of Japanese American incarceration, focusing on two instances of vocal rhetoric: an open-access database on Densho.org that houses oral histories of World War II-era incarceration of Japanese Americans, and an audio kiosk at The Rohwer Memorial Cemetery located on the former Rohwer concentration camp site.

  • Come Together, Right Now: How the Compositional Affordances of Music Shed Light on Community, Identity, and Pedagogy (A Symposium )

    Sarah Snyder, Holly Hassel, Mark Blaauw-Hara, Jacob Babb, Harley Ferris

    

    We write as musicians and fans who are also writing teachers; we feel we have contributions to make in the form of "sympathetic resonances" we have observed between music and writing, most especially as we consider ways both music and writing can be harnessed to question and subvert power, to understand and complicate genres and expectations, to foster community, and to project and shape identity.

• Inventio

  • Listening Roundtable for Sleepwalking 2: A Mixtap/e/ssay

    A.D. Carson

    

    On February 21, 2019 The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia hosted a listening roundtable for A.D. Carson's Sleepwalking 2 [a mixtap/e/ssay | OTR]. In the roundtable, Carson and five colleagues in music and/or rhetoric, discuss the process of the album, hip hop as resistance, and the academic legibility of Carson's musical work.

• Praxis

  • The Border Soundscapes Project

    José Manuel Flores & Lucía Durá

    

    The Border Soundscapes Project is based on Schafer's (1977) “World Soundscapes Project,” which made sound a formal subject of research and a fundamental dimension of what it means to “inhabit” the world in a “universal” composition in which we all participate. Through this study, we embark on a search for a border sound identity—a polyphonous representation of who border residents are, how we coexist, and how we clash in spite and because of being a border community.

• PraxisWiki

  • Sounding Out in a Predominately White Institution: Circulating Asian American Sound for Institutional Change

    Jennifer Sano-Franchini, Margaret Fernandes, Jonathan Adams, & Michelle Kim

• 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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