An experiment in enlisting ChatGPT as a collaborator for scholars who wish to design academic multimedia webtexts.

This web text investigates how student users and nonusers perceive and operate within anonymous social media platforms. Through a survey and a small batch of qualitative interviews, I examine the ways that students are using anonymous applications and the extent to which anonymity influences how they navigate these spaces.

Inventio in 5is a series in which recently publishedKairosauthors discuss their composing processes in videos of about 5 minutes.Season Onefeatures authors Shantam Goyal, Stacey Copeland, Richard Holeton, Nancy Small, and Stephen Paur.

This webtext develops a dual theory of dark patterns based in the ancient concept of mêtis, or rhetorical cunning, and the Gestalt principles of visual design related to optical illusion and perspective. This theory is used to interpret dark patterns of six representative types to show how it can support a reading of other deceptive texts and web interfaces more broadly.

This webtext uses four Artifacts—annotated video excerpts of class recordings— to demonstrate how web conferencing and collaborative word processing platforms can be used to bolster interactivity, teaching presence, and social presence in synchronous online writing classes.

The Winograd Matrix" is an interactive fiction made with Twine's Chapbook format about a gaming-industry couple who face interpersonal and work-related conflicts, jealousies, and roving bands of thugs while confined together in a near-future, post-pandemic world.

Why Podcast?" is a three-part podcast miniseries written and produced by Stacey Copeland and Hannah McGregor that asks: why does podcasting lend itself to the communication of scholarly knowledge? And what new possibilities does podcasting open up, especially for those of us interested in publicly accessible or community engaged scholarship?

Materials compositions, such as textiles, tell stories and act as data carriers. They persist in speaking even as their makers are erased or lost. When information about a maker ceases to be available, applying principles of storytelling and rhetoric facilitates a possible re–reading of a material composition as a process of recentering the human maker.