Kairos
A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, & Pedagogy
http://kairos.technorhetoric.net
History
Mission
Statistics
Submit
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?
Mike Salvo
image courtesy of Douglas Eyman, via Jim Kalmbach
To bridge the print/digital scholarly divide
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
Lore
Kairos publishes more scholarship from untenured & tenure-track scholars than those with tenure
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"
Pop Quiz!
Is Kairos affiliated with any organization?
No. The editorial staff runs the journal.
Reasons to publish in Kairos
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
* reasons your tenure cmte might care about
Myth
It’s quicker to publish in an online journal than a print journal 
Lore
Longest … continuously running … online journal … in writing studies
Pop Quiz
How many files are hosted on the Kairos server?
24,500+
http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/submissions.html
Fact
7 sections
3 peer-reviewed
4 editorially reviewed
Disputatio & Praxiswiki
(1st time authors)
Process 
Query
Peer-Review
3 Tiers
Mentoring
Revision
Copy- & design-editing
Author query & proofing
Publication
Submission
Pop Quiz!
How do you get 
published in Kairos? 
By trying!
:)  
Email the Editors:
kairosed@technorhetoric.net