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Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology,
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Kairos
History
Started in 1996 by grad students
Fact
Server space was donated by Texas Tech University
Lore
Hootie & the Blowfish played a significant role in journal’s start
Pop Quiz!
There’s only 1 original staff member still affiliated.
Who is it?
Mission
- to publish scholarship that examines digital and multimodal composing practices, and
- to promote work that enacts its scholarly argument through rhetorical and innovative uses of new media
Fact
Nearly every issue uses new technologies
Myth:
Only authors who use Flash or video get published
Flash interfaces account for 1 out of ~20 webtexts
See Kalmbach's (2006) "Reading the Archives: Ten Years of Nonlinear (Kairos) History"
Lore
Kairos publishes more scholarship from untenured & tenure-track scholars than those with tenure
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Is Kairos affiliated with any organization?
No. The editorial staff runs the journal.
Statistics
Reasons to publish in Kairos
* reasons your tenure cmte might care about
Lore
Longest … continuously running … online journal … in writing studies
Fact(s)
45,000 readers/month
180 countries
10% acceptance rate
nearly all are R&Rs
Award-winning
2008 CELJ Design
Michele Kendrick C&C Digital Production Award
Pop Quiz
How many files are hosted on the Kairos server?
24,500+
Myth
It’s quicker to publish in an online journal than a print journal
Submit
http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/submissions.html
Fact
7 sections
3 peer-reviewed
4 editorially reviewed
Disputatio & Praxiswiki
(1st time authors)
Query
Submission
Peer-Review
3 Tiers
Mentoring
Revision
Copy- & design-editing
Author query & proofing
Publication
Pop Quiz!
How do you get
published in Kairos?
By trying!
:)
Email the Editors:
kairosed@technorhetoric.net
http://kairos.technorhetoric.net
Mike Salvo
image courtesy of Douglas Eyman, via Jim Kalmbach
To bridge the print/digital scholarly divide
A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, & Pedagogy