Kairos

A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy

ISSN 1521-2300

• Topoi

  • Perspicuous Objects

    Fred Johnson

    
    

    "Perspicuous Objects" puts theorists of visual rhetoric into conversation with comics theorists and practitioners in order to look closely at the use of comics and comics principles for teaching students about composition, meaning-making, and critical reading.

• Inventio

  • Satellite Lamps

    Einar Sneve Martinussen, Jørn Knutsen, & Timo Arnall

    

    "The city is changing in ways that can’t be seen. As urban life becomes intertwined with digital technologies, the invisible landscape of the networked city is taking shape—a terrain made up of radio waves, mobile devices, data streams and satellite signals. Satellite Lamps is a project about using design to investigate and reveal one of the fundamental constructs of the networked city—the Global Positioning System (GPS)."

• Praxis

  • Multimodal Instruction: Pedagogy and Practice for Enhancing Multimodal Composition

    Sherry Rankins-Robertson, Tiffany Bourelle, Andrew Bourelle, & David Fisher

    

    "This webtext argues for the use of multimodal instruction to design online writing courses with digital tools to deliver instructional content and facilitate feedback" — "we believe students who are asked to produce multimodal composition assignments should be engaged with instructional content of appropriate uses of multimodal materials."

• PraxisWiki

  • Why I Still Blog

    Lanette Cadle

    "Each year new graduate students, teachers, and scholars enter the fields of rhetoric and composition, new media, and computers and writing. What is old for those with more history in this corner of the very broad field of rhetoric and composition is not so for new arrivals. They may well ask "why blog at all?" now that blogs are no longer the new kid on the social media block, noting that the cool kids have moved on to other tools that I also use, such as Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, YouTube, Vine, Instagram, and yes, even Facebook."

  • Digital (Re)Visions: Blending Pedagogical Strategies with Dynamic Classroom Tactics

    Gina Szabady, Crystal N. Fodrey, & Celeste Del Russo

    "Like great jazz, a classroom that moves nimbly feels effortless in its harmony. This wiki entry is a meditation on strategic adjustments three teachers have made to their multimodal pedagogies as we attempted to integrate visual and digital literacies. We adapted both strategies and tactics for integrating digital technologies into a range of composition courses at the University of Arizona, including courses in the First-Year Writing series, Technical Writing, and Advanced Composition. "

  • Wiki Writing as Cyberfeminist Pedagogical Practice

    Rebecca S. Richards

    "Cyberfeminist pedagogy has been under-theorized, which leads to the displacement of embodied hierarchies from real life (RL) to the digital realm. By engaging in teaching praxes that use technology playfully, ironically, and reflectively, students and instructors can co-create spaces and practices that adhere to the philosophical and political tenets of feminist pedagogy. I find that using wiki writing in the classroom provides one of the most accessible, easy to incorporate cyberfeminist pedagogical platforms."

• 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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