Kairos

A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy

ISSN 1521-2300

• Topoi

  • Polymorphous Perversity in Texts

    Johndan Johnson-Eilola

    

    "Here's the tricky part: If we teach ourselves and our students that texts are made to be broken apart, remixed, remade, do we lose the polymorphous perversity that brought us pleasure in the first place? Does the pleasure of transgression evaporate when the borders are opened?"

  • Psychogeographies of Writing: Ma(r)king Space at the Limits of Representation

    Scot Barnett

    

    "Space matters, and regardless of our commitments to one theoretical framework or another, we should continue to invite students to write about space and about their embodied experiences with/in space. In so doing, however, we should be mindful of the worldviews our spatial rhetorics and pedagogies present and authorize, however implicitly."

  • A Geographical History of Online Rhetoric and Composition Journals

    Jeremy Tirrell

    

    "The Mapping Digital Technology in Rhetoric and Composition History project can accommodate the geographical aspects of many relevant potential data sets, such as the locations of conferences, grant and award winners, book publications, graduate programs, job openings, and blog posts. The maps created for this article focus specifically on online rhetoric and composition journals and the discourses they contain."

• Praxis

  • Space | Event | Movement: Reflections on a Spatial & Visual Rhetorics Graduate Course

    Amy C. Kimme Hea, Adrienne Crump & Elise Verzosa, Crystal N. Fodrey, Anita Furtner Archer, Jennifer Haley-Brown, Ashley J. Holmes, Marissa M. Juarez, Londie T. Martin, and Jenna Vinson

    

    "Our experiences in English 696e: Spatial and Visual Rhetorics culminated in a semester project that included large-scale installation projects and mini-workshops. This semester project was an event—titled svr²—that we hosted for our local community, particularly targeting an audience of first-year composition instructors who would be teaching visual and spatial analysis to undergraduate students as part of the University of Arizona's first-year composition curriculum."

  • Introduction and Background

    Amy C. Kimme Hea

    

  • Visualizing Writing Space: A Reflection

    Adrienne Crump & Elise Verzosa

    

  • Thrown Into Theory, Or How I Learned To Love Spatial Rhetoric

    Crystal N. Fodrey

    

  • From Sound to Crisis: Strategic Mapping in the Classroom and Workplace

    Anita Furtner Archer

    

  • Risky Writing in Unsafe Spaces

    Jennifer Haley-Brown

    

  • The Essence of the Path: A Traveler's Tale of Finding Place

    Ashley J. Holmes

    

  • Visual-Spatial Approach to Spontaneous Composing in First-Year Composition

    Marissa M. Juarez

    

  • Thirdspacing the University: Performing Spatial and Visual Literacies

    Londie T. Martin

    

  • Spatial Shock: Place, Space, and the Politics of Representation

    Jenna Vinson

    
    
    

  • Spaces of the Hilltop: A Case Study of Community/Academic Interaction

    Aaron Knochel & Dickie Selfe

    

    "The mapping imagery of the web interface is an attempt to illustrate the surprising element of the Hilltop project. The map is not "accurate." It shows real streets and highways in, around, and in-between the Ohio State University and the Hilltop community, but it is not intended to provide directions."

  
  
  
  

• 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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