Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is pleased to announce publication of our Fall 2023 issue, featuring exciting new developments and webtexts:
https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/28.1/loggingon/index.html
Among our new developments:
PraxisWiki is now the new home of the MMU Scholar Bibliography and MMU Scholars List! These two resources were created by Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq and recently updated by Itchuaqiyaq, Natasha N. Jones, and Jennifer Sano-Franchini, who serve as the MMU Database Advisory Board. Both resources have been useful for tech comm scholars seeking to read, cite, and support research by MMU scholars in the field.
We have launched our Inventio in 5 series! Envisioned by section editors Liz Chamberlain and Rich Shivener, this series presents 5-minute videos in which recently published Kairos authors talk about their composition processes. This issue’s series was produced in collaboration with Leah Ciani and Chante Douglas, recent graduates from York University’s Professional Writing program, and features Kairos authors Shantam Goyal, Stacey Copeland, Richard Holeton, Nancy Small, and Stephen Paur.
We have also added several new items to Stasis, our long-running archive of Computers and Writing resources! With this issue, we’ve added: a 2015 interview with Todd Taylor about CCC Online, an archive of the original Hawisher and Selfe Caring for the Future award (now administered at Kairos), and Greg Ulmer’s “Noonstar.”
And we are excited to share that Cheryl E. Ball and Doug Eyman’s Kairos book project, “Publishing Digital Scholarship: A How-To Guide and Oral History [of the Longest, Continuously Running Open-Access Scholarly Multimedia Journal],” will be released on a biweekly basis, starting now!
This issue features two Disputatio webtexts. In “Making a Webtext with ChatGPT,” Senior Editor Doug Eyman asks ChatGPT to design and create content for a website that could help writing studies composers use OpenAI to produce multimodal essays. Doug shares the prompts he used, ChatGPT’s output, and reflects on the process. In “Leaving Academia: Hot Takes, Tips, and Voices from Out There…”—an ongoing resource—Senior Editor Cheryl E. Ball shares feedback from scholars in the field who left academia.
This issue features a new Topoi webtext, Sara West’s “Student Perceptions of Anonymous Applications,” which explores how four students understand privacy and anonymity on Yik Yak and how scholars might approach researching anonymous apps like Yik Yak.
This issue also features two PraxisWiki webtexts. In “The Multimodal Advocacy Project: Centering Accessible Composing Choices,” Molly E. Ubbesen describes how she centered disability and accessibility in designing and teaching the Multimodal Advocacy Project. In “Re-envisioning the Abstract: Visual Abstracts in Writing Studies,” Molly Ryan discusses developing a visual abstract assignment in her FYW and research course.
Finally, we have two new book reviews: Ashley M. Beardsley reviews Leigh Gruwell’s Making Matters: Craft, Ethics, and New Materialist Rhetorics, and Basanti Timalsina reviews Multimodal Composing: Strategies for Twenty-First-Century Writing Consultations, edited by Lindsay A. Sabatino and Brian Fallon.
Check out the full issue as your summer winds down!