Kairos

A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy

ISSN 1521-2300

• Topoi

  • Motherhood on the Screen: An Exploration of Wounds Opened and Closed through Home Video

    Alexandra Hidalgo

    

    Alexandra Hidalgo's webtext uses the medium of home video in a mediated conversation between two mothers to explore issues of composition, recomposition, memory, and remediation. Starting from a home video, Hidalgo both makes and embodies an argument for investigations of home video that complicate notions of amateur versus professional production and projections of editing or its apparent absence, while also raising questions about the intersections of domestic life and technological history.

  • Arranging Delivery, Delivering Arrangement: An Ecological Sonic Rhetoric of Podcasting

    Abigail Lambke

    

    Abigail Lambke extends Collin Gifford Brooke’s (2009) theory of rhetorical canons as an ecology, in which choices in one canon influence others as in a dynamic ecological model, and applies that to the practice, process, composition, and reception of podcasting–a form that can be considered both a static text and an interface. Lambke concludes that we might be in the age of secondary orality, but text, print, visuals, graphic narratives remain central to how we can think about and process the world.

  • Disney Death Tour

    Jason Crider & Kenny Anderson

    

    Jason Crider and Kenny Anderson construct a digital MEmorial (Ulmer, 2005) commemorating those who have died at Walt Disney World as a means of investigating the intersections of hypermediated corporate spaces and place-based opportunities for civic rhetorics. Digitally augmenting the monumental aspects of Disney World offers readers of the webtext and visitors to the park a reconsideration of how individual, public, and historical experiences contribute to context-dependent collaborative compositions of space.

• PraxisWiki

  • Critical Rhetorical Analysis of Social Media Sites

    Amber M. Buck & Lillian W. Mina

  • CFP: VideoActivism (Due 2/28/19)

    PraxisWiki Editors

• 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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