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Call for Reviews

Kairos, a refereed online journal exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy, is actively seeking reviews of technologies (social networking and research tools, learning platforms, etc.) and nonprint as well as print texts. Initial query emails should be sent to the Reviews Co-Editors Ashanka Kumari (ashankakumari@gmail.com) and Jonathan Marine (jonathanmmarine@gmail.com). The query should, in 250-300 words, include the title of the text or webtext under consideration, a brief explanation of why you believe you have the background knowledge to review this text, and a description of your initial ideas regarding your review webtext's design. A CV should also be attached.

We want to encourage reviewers to remember that Kairos reviews are innovative in form as well as content, and we promote alternative modes of reviewing texts, such as video or audio. For video reviews, authors are welcomed to mix together their own original filmed material with other audio, video, and still imagery elements to create a compelling and intriguing review. When considering multimodal elements to include, please consult Kairos's copyright policies, style guide, and technical specifications. For audio reviews, reviewers are encouraged to compose podcast reviews. Along with single-text reviews, the Reviews section also publishes review essays—usually lengthier, more in-depth analyses of multiple texts focused around a unifying idea. Review essays (in any media) are usually solicited, but queries for this type of review are also encouraged. We accept reviews of video games, software, and websites as well.

We are also seeking reviews of the following print and online texts:

  • NEW! Ames, Melissa, & McDuffie, Kristi. (Eds.). (2023). Hashtag activism interrogated and embodied: Case studies on social justice movements. Utah State University Press.
  • Anderson, Daniel. (2021). Video scholarship and screen composing. University of Michigan Press.
  • Andrews, Deborah C., & Tham, Jason C.K. (2021). Designing technical and professional communication. Routledge.
  • Andrijasevic, Rutvica, Chen, Julia Yujie, Gregg, Melissa, & Steinberg, Marc. (2021). Media and management. University of Minnesota Press.
  • Anson, Chris M. & Flash, Pamela. (Eds.). (2021). Writing-Enriched curricula: Models of faculty-driven and departmental transformation. The WAC Clearinghouse.
  • NEW! Ayash, Nancy Bou, & Kilfoil, Carrie Byars. (Eds.). (2023). Translingual and transnational graduate education in rhetoric & composition. Utah State University Press.
  • Badenhorst, Cecile, Amell, Brittany, & Burford, James. (Eds.). (2021). Re-imagining doctoral writing. The WAC Clearinghouse.
  • NEW! Barrett-Fox, Jason. (2022). Untimely women: Radically recasting feminist rhetorical history. The Ohio State University Press.
  • Bartholomae, David. (2021). Like what we imagine: Writing and the university. University of Pittsburgh Press.
  • Beck, Estee, & Hutchinson Campos, Les. (Eds.). (2021). Privacy matters: Conversations about surveillance, within and beyond the classroom. Utah State University Press.
  • Blaauw-Hara, Mark. (2021). From military to academy: The writing and learning transitions of student-veterans. Utah State University Press.
  • NEW! Bleakney, Julia, Moore, Jessie L. & Rosinski, Paula. (Eds.). (2022). Writing beyond the university: Preparing lifelong learners and lifewide writing. Elon, NC: Elon University Center for Engaged Learning.
  • Borgman, Jessie, & McArdle, Casey. (Eds.). (2021). PARS in practice: More resources and strategies for online writing instructors. The WAC Clearinghouse.
  • Butler, Paul, Ray, Brian, & Vanguri, Star Medzerian. (Eds.). (2020). Style and the future of composition studies. Utah State University Press.
  • Carillo, Ellen C. (2021). The hidden inequities of labor-based contract grading. Utah State University Press.
  • Carter, Karen L. Ching. (2021). Photo-essays about Asian American women in LIFE magazine 1936 to 1965: Hidden narratives and breaking stereotypes. Lexington Books.
  • NEW! Clary-Lemon, Jennifer, & Grant, David M. (Eds.). (2022). Decolonial conversations in posthuman and new material rhetorics. The Ohio State University Press.
  • Contanza-Chock, Sasha. (2020). Design justice: Community-led practices to build the worlds we need. The MIT Press.
  • NEW! Corbett, Steven J., Decker, Teagan E., & Young, Maria L. Soriano. (Eds.). (2023). Writing centers and learning commons: Staying centered while sharing common ground. Utah State University.
  • NEW! Crane, Kate, & Cargile Cook, Kelli. (Eds.). (2022). User experience as innovative academic practice. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado.
  • NEW! Daniel, James Rushing. (2022). Toward an anti-capitalist composition. Utah State University Press.
  • Dellinger, Mary Ann, & Hart, D. Alexis. (Eds.). (2020). ePortfolios@edu: What we know, what we don’t know, and everything in-between. The WAC Clearinghouse & University Press of Colorado.
  • Duffy, William. (2021). Beyond conversation: Collaboration and the production of writing. Utah State University Press.
  • Edwards, Jessica, McGuire, Meg, & Sanchez, Rachel. (Eds.). (2021). Speaking up, speaking out: Lived experiences of non-tenure-track faculty in writing studies. Utah State University Press.
  • NEW! Falconer, Heather M. (2022). Masking inequality with good intentions: Systemic bias, counterspaces, and discourse acquisition in STEM education. WAC Clearinghouse.
  • NEW! Faris, Michael J. & Holmes, Steve. (Eds.). (2022). Reprogrammable rhetoric: critical making theories and methods in rhetoric and composition. Utah State University Press.
  • NEW! Fiormonte, Domenico, Chaudhuri, Sukanta, & Ricaurte, Paola. (Eds.). (2022). Global debates in the digital humanities. University of Minnesota Press.
  • NEW! Gabrys, Jennifer. (2022). Citizens of worlds: Open-air toolkits for environmental struggle. University of Minnesota Press.
  • NEW! Gonzales, Laura. (2022). Designing multilingual experiences in technical communication. Utah State University Press.
  • Gramer, Rachel, Bearden, Logan, & Mueller, Derek. (2021). Radiant figures: Visual rhetorics in everyday administrative contexts. Computers and Composition Digital Press.
  • NEW! Green, Jacob. (2023). Composing place: Digital rhetorics for a mobile world. Utah State University Press.
  • NEW! Gruwell, Leigh. (2022). Making matters: Craft, ethics, and new materialist rhetorics. Utah State University Press.
  • NEW! Gustafsson, Magnus, & Eriksson, Andreas. (Eds.). (2022). Negotiating the Intersections of Writing and Writing Instruction. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado.
  • NEW! Hassel, Holly, & Phillips, Cassandra. (2022). Materiality and Writing Studies: Aligning Labor, Scholarship, and Teaching. Studies in Writing and Rhetoric, NCTE.
  • Hesford, Wendy S. (2021). Violent exceptions: Children’s human rights and humanitarian rhetorics. The Ohio State University Press.
  • Hitt, Allison Harper. (2021). Rhetorics of overcoming: Rewriting narratives of disability and accessibility in writing studies. Studies in Writing and Rhetoric (SWR) Series.
  • NEW! Holly, Ryan & Vie, Stephanie. (Eds.). (2022). Unlimited players: The intersections of writing center and game studies. Utah State University Press.
  • Horner, Bruce, Hartline, Faver, Megan, Kumari, Ashanka, & Matravers, Laura Sceniak. (2021). Mobility work in composition. Utah State University Press.
  • NEW! Hsu, V. Jo. (2022). Constellating home: Trans and queer Asian American rhetorics. The Ohio State University Press.
  • Hutchinson, Glenn. (2021). Writing accomplices with student immigrant rights organizers. National Council of Teachers in English.
  • Inoue, Asao B. (2021). Above the well: An antiracist literacy argument from a boy of color. University Press of Colorado & CSU Open Press.
  • NEW! Inoue, Asao B. (2022). Labor-based grading contracts: Building equity and inclusion in the compassionate writing classroom, 2nd edition. The WAC Clearinghouse and University of Colorado.
  • NEW! Iverson, Christopher, & Ehrenfeld, Don. (Eds.). (2023). Processes: Writing across academic careers. Milne Open Textbooks.
  • NEW! Jordan, Jay. (2022). Grounded literacies in a transnational WAC/WID ecology: A Korean-U.S. study. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado.
  • Karppi, Tero, Stäheli, Urs, Wieghorst, Clara, & Zierott, Lea. (2020). Undoing networks: Exploring and conceptualizing practices, technologies, and politics of disconnecting. University of Minnesota Press.
  • NEW! Kessler, Molly Margaret. (2022). Stigma stories: Rhetoric, lived experience, and chronic illness. The Ohio State University Press.
  • Kiernan, Julia E., Frost, Alanna, & Malley, Suzanne Blum. (Eds.). (2021). Translingual pedagogical perspectives: Engaging domestic and international students in the composition classroom. Utah State University Press.
  • NEW! Kirsch, Gesa E., Garcia, Romeo, Burns Allen, Caitlin, & Smith, Walker P. (Eds.). (2023). Unsettling archival research: Engaging critical, communal, and digital archives. Southern Illinois University Press.
  • Klein, Michael J. (2021). Effective teaching of technical communication: Theory, practice, and application. The WAC Clearinghouse.
  • NEW! Knight, Aimée. (2022). Community is the way: Engaged writing and designing for transformative change. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado.
  • NEW! Köseoğlu, Suzan, Veletsianos, George, & Rowell, Chris. (Eds.). (2023). Critical digital pedagogy in higher education. Athabasca University Press.
  • Kuhn, Virginia, & Finger, Anke. (Eds.). (2021). Shaping the digital dissertation: Knowledge production in the arts and humanities. Open Book Publishers.
  • Lewis, Richard S. (2021). Technology, media literacy, and the human subject: A posthuman approach. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers.
  • NEW! Lewis, Tyson E., & Hyland, Peter B. (2022). Studious drift: Movements and protocols for a postdigital education. University of Minnesota Press.
  • Lockett, Alexandria L., Ruiz, Iris D., Sanchez, James Chase, & Carter, Christopher. (2021). Race, rhetoric, and research methods. The WAC Clearinghouse.
  • Lockhart, Tara, Glascott, Brenda, Warnick, Chris, Parrish, Juli, & Lewis, Justin. (Eds.). (2021). Literacy and pedagogy in an age of misinformation and disinformation. New City Community Press.
  • Lockridge, Tim, & Van Ittersum, Derek. (2021). Writing workflows: Beyond word processing. The University of Michigan Press.
  • Lotier, Kristopher M. (2021). Postprocess postmortem. The WAC Clearinghouse.
  • Lutkewitte, Claire, Kitchens, Juliette C., & Scanlon, Molly J. (2021). Stories of becoming: Demystifying the professoriate for graduate students in composition and rhetoric. Utah State University Press.
  • Maraj, Louis M. (2020). Black or right: Anti/Racist campus rhetorics. Utah State University Press.
  • NEW! Martins, David S., Schreiber, Brooke R., You, Xiaoye. (Eds.). (2023). Writing on the wall: Writing education and resistance to isolationism. Utah State University Press.
  • NEW! McGrail, Anne B., Nieves, Angel David, & Senior, Siobhan. (Eds.). (2022). People, practice, power: Digital humanities outside the center. University of Minnesota Press.
  • NEW! Miller, Benjamin. (2022). Distant readings of disciplinarity: Knowing and doing in composition/rhetoric dissertations. Utah State University Press.
  • NEW! Morris, Janine, & Concannon, Kelly. (Eds.). (2022). Emotions and affect in writing centers. Parlor Press.
  • Morrison, Bruce, Chen, Julia, Lin, Linda, & Urmston, Alan. (2021). English across the curriculum: Voices from around the world. The WAC Clearinghouse.
  • NEW! Neaderhiser, Stephen E. (Ed.). (2022). Writing the classroom: Pedagogical documents as rhetorical genres. Utah State University Press.
  • Nguyen, Josef. (2021). The digital is kid stuff: Making creative laborers for a precarious economy. University of Minnesota Press.
  • NEW! Noel, Hannah. (2022). Deflective co-opting Black & Latinx identity politics. The Ohio State University Press.
  • NEW! Obermark, Lauren E. (2022). Engaging museums: Rhetorical education and social justice. Southern Illinois University Press.
  • Olson, Christa J. (2021). American magnitude: Hemispheric vision and public feeling in the United States. The Ohio State University Press.
  • Palmeri, Jason, & McCorkle, Ben. (2021). 100 years of new media pedagogy. University of Michigan Press.
  • Pesce, Mark. (2021). Augmented reality: Unboxing tech’s next big thing. Polity Books.
  • NEW! Pflugfelder, Ehren Helmet. (2022). Geoengineering, persuasion, and the climate crisis: A geologic rhetoric. The University of Alabama Press.
  • NEW! Giaimo, Genie Nicole. (2023). Unwell writing centers: Searching for wellness in neoliberal educational institutions and beyond. Utah State University Press.
  • NEW! Propen, Amy D. (2022). At home in the anthropocene. The Ohio State University Press.
  • Reid, Darren R., & Sanders, Brett. (2021). Documentary making for digital humanists. Open Book Publishers.
  • Risam, Roopika, & Josephs, Kelly Baker. (Eds.). (2021). The digital Black Atlantic. University of Minnesota Press.
  • NEW! Rodrigue, Tanya K., & Stedman, Kyle. (2022). Soundwriting: A guide to making audio projects. Broadview Press.
  • Sanchez, James Chase. (2021). Salt of the earth: Rhetoric, preservation, and white supremacy. Studies in Writing and Rhetoric (SWR) Series
  • NEW! Schreiber, Joanna, & Melonçon, Lisa. (Eds.). (2022). Assembling critical components: A framework for sustaining technical and professional communication. The WAC Clearinghouse, University Press of Colorado.
  • Selber, Stuart A. (2020). Institutional literacies: Engaging academic IT contexts for writing and communication. The University of Chicago Press.
  • Shivers-McNair, Ann. (2021). Beyond the makerspace: Making and relational rhetorics. University of Michigan Press.
  • NEW! Siczek, Megan M. (Ed.) (2022). Pedagogical innovations in oral academic communciation. University of Michigan Press.
  • NEW! Smilges, J. Logan. (2022). Queer silence: On disability and rhetorical absence. University of Minnesota Press.
  • NEW! Spicer, Scott. (2022). Student-centered media: Designing research, learning, and skill-building experiences. ALA Editions.
  • NEW! Sparby, Erika M. (2023). Memetic rhetorics: Toward a toolkit for ethical making. University of Michigan Press.
  • Stone, Jonathan W. (2021). Listening to the Lomax Archive: The sonic rhetorics of African American folksong in the 1930s. University of Michigan Press.
  • NEW! Thaiss, Chris, & Zawacki, Terry Myers. (2022). Engaged writers and dynamic disciplines: Research on the academic writing life. The WAC Clearinghouse.
  • NEW! VanKooten, Crystal, & Del Hierro, Victor (Eds.). (2022). Methods and methodologies for research in digital writing and rhetoric: Centering positionality in computers and writing scholarship, Volume 1. The WAC Clearinghouse, University Press of Colorado.
  • NEW! Waite, Stacey, & Moe, Peter Wayne. (Eds.). (2022). Inventing the discipline: Student work in composition studies. Parlor Press.
  • Walton, Rebecca, & Agboka, Godwin Y. (Eds.). (2021). Equipping technical communicators for social justice work. Utah State University Press.
  • NEW! Wilkes, Lydia, Kreuter, Nate, & Skinnell, Ryan. (Eds.). (2022). Rhetoric and guns. Utah State University Press.
  • NEW! Yabe, Manako. (2022). Deaf rhetoric: An ecology of health communication. Springer.
  • NEW! You, Xiaoye. (2023). Genre networks and empire: Rhetoric in early imperial China. Southern Illinois University Press.
  • NEW! Young, Sarah. (2023). Working through surveillance and technical communication: Concepts and connections. SUNY Press.

Games, Software, and Tools

  • ChatGPT. (2023). Developed OpenAI.
  • Disco Elysium. (2019). Developed by ZA/UM.
  • Elden Ring. (2022). Developed by FromSoftware. Published by Bandai Namco Entertainment.
  • elicit.org. (2022). Published by Ought.
  • Factorio. (2016). Developed by Wube Software.
  • GeoGuessr. (2013). Developed by Anton Wallén.
  • hypothes.is. (2020). Published by AAK.
  • iris.ai. (2022). Published by Researcher Workspace.
  • Loop Hero. (2021). Developed by Four Quarters. Published by Devolver Digital.
  • Pit. (1904). Developed by Edgar Cayce. Published by Hasbro.
  • Slay the Spire. (2017). Developed by Mega Crit. Published by Humble Bundle.
  • Untitled Goose Game. (2019). Developed by HouseHouse. Published by Panic Inc.
  • Wingspan. (2019). Designed by Elizabeth Hargrave. Published by Stonemaier Games.

Additional suggestions for this list are welcome. If you have a text you would like to review, just propose it to us.

All reviews should be authored specifically for publication on the World Wide Web, and they should focus on "exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy," in keeping with Kairos's mission as a journal.