Kairos

A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy

ISSN 1521-2300

• 30 Years of Kairos

  • 30th Anniversary CoverWeb

    Christopher Andrews and Erin Kathleen Bahl

    

    Reflecting on 30 years of Kairos, this Coverweb includes a short introduction, a complete listing of Kairos staff and positions since Volume 1, Issue 1, an audio reflection from outgoing senior editor Cheryl Ball, and a collection of audio, video, and text reflections from Kairos staff, authors, board members, and community on what Kairos means to them.

• Topoi

  • Waveforms: A Webtext Mixtape

    Brian Mooney

    

    WAVEFORMS is a sonic composition that explores the embodied, affective qualities of sound in the study of spoken word poetry. This audio-centered webtext invites the reader-listener to engage with collaboratively-produced spoken word and musical compositions that layer the voices of youth poets, critical theorists, and the author’s own.

• Inventio

  • Shaping Narratives: Exploring a Hybrid Documentary Pedagogy

    Kelly Lycke Donate

    

    This webtext presents a hybrid documentary film and textual methodology in the creation of community-engaged rhetorical scholarship, and specifically in a project called “Into Space Film-book: Public Memory in New Mexico’s Central Mining District,” which combines elements of documentary filmmaking, academic research, and oral history to create a digital memory collective for Santa Rita, New Mexico.

  • Creative Destruction: A Pedagogical Process with the FrankenProject

    Calvin Olsen, Kelsey Dufresne, and David Rieder

    

    This webtext documents a collaborative, multimodal project that reimagines Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein through the lens of digital rhetoric, Critical Making, and glitch aesthetics. In it, we explore the idea of “Creative Destruction”—the paradoxical act of dismantling to create—as both theme and method. In tracing the intersections of discursive design, transductive rhetorics, and digital humanities, this project offers a materially and rhetorically complex model for digital pedagogical invention that acknowledges the creative possibilities inherent in working at the seams.

• 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 Editor

    • Douglas Eyman

  • Editors

    • Christopher Andrews
    • Erin Kathleen Bahl

  • Managing Editor

    • Elizabeth Fleitz

  • Technical Editor

    • Rick Wysocki

  • Praxis/Wiki
    & Topoi Editors

    • Brandy Dieterle
    • Ashanka Kumari
    • Kristi McDuffie

  • Disputatio Editors

    • Ashley Beardsley
    • Rick Wysocki

  • Inventio Editor

    • Anastasia Salter

  • Reviews Editors

    • Jonathan Marine
    • Dan Martin

  • Interviews Editors

    • Monica F. Jacobe
    • Casey Manogue

  • Communications Editors

    • Vyshali Manivannan
    • Olivia McMurray
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