Kairos

A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy

ISSN 1521-2300

• Topoi

  • Rhetorical Roots and Media Future: How Podcasting Fits into the Computers and Writing Classroom

    Jennifer Bowie

    

    Rhetorical Roots and Media Future is a multimodal project exploring podcasting as a part of a writing class. The text has two main components: a hypertextual webtext and a seven episode podcast series. The podcasts provide both a basic introduction to podcasting as a classroom activity and the ways in which podcasting provides new ways of engaging and shaping the canon of classical rhetoric, as well as the rhetorical skills that are foundational for good writing practice.

  • Views from a Distance: A Nephological Model of the CCCC Chairs' Addresses, 1977-2011

    Derek N. Mueller

    

    Views from a Distance is a series of word clouds rendered from 35 chairs' addresses delivered at CCCC conventions from 1977 to 2011. The digital installation invites explorations of word-level patterns and anomalies within this widely recognized collection of speeches. The installation itself is underpinned with the assumption that distinctive forms of knowledge are mobilized through visualization techniques.

• Inventio

  • Watch the Bubble

    Daniel Anderson

    

    "I'm trying to do two things. One, I want to talk about performance and emergence. I'm going to mix that discussion. At times, I discuss performances that inform this project. At times, I look at what emerges from those performances. ... And two, I want to describe how I made/am making the video/performance, 'Watch the Bubble.' That work involves recovery and release, a Möbius compositional loop that looks back and flows forward as the reflections are mixed into the project before you."

• Praxis

  • Podcasting in a Writing Class? Considering the Possibilities

    Jennifer Bowie

    

    The practical, "how-to" companion to the more theoretically-oriented webtext in the Topoi section, Podcasting in a Writing Class? similarly provides a hypertext and series of podcasts—this time focusing on the construction and implementation of podcast assignments for writing courses.

  • PraxisWiki: Gregory Ulmer's Electracy: An Archive

    Jeremy Cushman and Alex Layne

  • PraxisWiki: CCCC 2011 Digital Pedagogy Poster Sessions

    Shelley Rodrigo & Elaine Jolayemi: "Focused Topic Tweets for Surface Level Tricks & Treats"
    Dominic Ashby, Amir Hassan, & Mandy Watts: "Multimodal Remix and/as Cultural Critique"
    Christine Photinos: "Paying Attention to What's Behind the Curtain: An Introductory HTML Activity"
    Moe Folk: "Animate to Advocate for Non-profits"
    Derek Mueller: "Tracing Rhetorical Style from Prose to New Media: 3.33 Ways"
    Brent Simoneaux: "Web 2.0 Technologies and Rhetorical Action"
    Ben McCorkle: "Assessing Remix Assignments: Audio/video and Fair Use"
    Chanon Adsanatham: "Using Digital Delivery Theory as a Heuristic for Multimodal Video Composing"

• Disputatio

  • Messages to Gail

    Cindy Selfe, Editor

    

    At the Computers and Writing 2011 Conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Gail E. Hawisher was celebrated for her many contributions to the field. At that conference, Hawisher gave a keynote address entitled "Our Work in the Profession: The Here and Now of the Future." This video publication includes contributions from scholars who wanted to share their thoughts about Gail upon her retirement; it was presented during her keynote at C&W 2011 and is co-published in C&C Online.

  • Ode to Sparklepony: Gamification in Action

    Wendi Sierra and Kyle Stedman

    

    Rather than introducing a pre-exisiting game into the learning spaces, gamification adds elements of games into educational (or other) spaces. After a brief exploration of the debates surrounding "gamification," we present two successful uses of gamification: C's the Day, a game run as part of the Conference on College Composition and Communication and FYC's the Day, a spinoff from the conference game that was used as part of FYC instructor orientation at the University of South Florida.

  • syncretism: mashup

    David J. Staley

    

    "This webtext is a text/image collage, a meditation on the associations between syncretism and the mashup. In this piece, I do not claim any theoretical connections between syncretism, hybridity, and mash-ups; I am only curious about their associative, analogical connections and how I might represent these materially/visually via this juxtaposition of texts and images."

• 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

  • Technical Editor

    • Rick Wysocki

  • Praxis/Wiki
    & Topoi Editors

    • Tim Amidon
    • Elizabeth Fleitz
    • Kristi McDuffie

  • Disputatio Editors

    • Ashley Beardsley
    • Rick Wysocki

  • Inventio Editor

    • Anastasia Salter

  • 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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