Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy

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January 2026

  1. Quantum Ontologies: Beyond Efficiency in Digital Learning Spaces
    Abstract

    Using the results of a qualitative research study, this webtext theorizes ways to resolve the quantum indeterminacy of online learning spaces in ways that serve social justice efforts. The webtext's design encourages readers to engage with content in varied, unpredictable ways, mirroring the ways that digital learning spaces are experienced in single-multiple ways.

January 2025

  1. Negotiating Barriers to Multimodality in Writing Program Administration: A Case Study at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville

August 2017

  1. Visualizing Digital Seriality or: All Your Mods Are Belong to Us!
    Abstract

    Visualizing Digital Seriality" explores the modding community surrounding video games through a case study exploring how serialization relates to digital cultures. Through a series of data visualizations, the topic of seriality and methods of distant reading are offered to enhance critical code studies through digital humanities methods.

  2. Augmented Learning Spaces for Sustainable Futures: Encounters between Design and Rhetoric in Shaping Nomadic Pedagogy
    Abstract

    Methodologically, this webtext takes up a diversity of modes of making, documenting and reflecting on this shared learning journey, including photography, interviews, participant observation, and a documentary film. This is conveyed through a spatial rhetoric that is designed to evince and allow access to different thematics and elements in the interface so that readers—students, educators, researchers—may differentially traverse the multimodal account of the learning journey.

January 2015

  1. Baby, We Were Born to Tweet: Springsteen Fans, The Writing Practices of In Situ Tweeting, and the Research Possibilities for Twitter
    Abstract

    [M]y goal is not to attempt to show uniqueness in fan tweets; even those that might be considered run-of-the-mill fan-type writings that express fan-type adoration are important and meaningful. Rather, I present composing practices as suggested by a grounded theory approach so fan writing on Twitter may begin to be understood on its own terms and not through pre-conceived (and often incorrect) notions about fans, fan writing, and writing on Twitter.

August 2014

  1. Academic Labor, Career Invention, & Workflow Processes: Case Studying Paul Kei Matsuda

August 2012

  1. What's in a Name? The Anatomy of Defining New/Multi/Modal/Digital/Media Texts
    Abstract

    In a 2009Computers and Compositionarticle, I examined how the terms multimedia and multimodal were used in academic and industry situations. This webtext extends that argument to investigate the ways in which a variety of other terms, including digital media and new media, are defined by scholars in the fields of computers and composition and education. These interview-based conversations laid the framework for a broader consideration of the anatomy of a definition: how we develop definitions and how definitions shape our work in academia, the classroom, and public life.

May 2012

  1. Spaces of the Hilltop: A Case Study of Community/Academic Interaction
    Abstract

    The mapping imagery of the web interface is an attempt to illustrate the surprising element of the Hilltop project. The map is not "accurate." It shows real streets and highways in, around, and in-between the Ohio State University and the Hilltop community, but it is not intended to provide directions.

August 2011

  1. Anatomy of an Article: A Film by Sylwester Zabielski and a Case Study by Joseph Janangelo
    Abstract

    This webtext examines the ways that Jonathan Pearson, a recent graduate of The University of Missouri–Kansas City, revised one of his essays to turn it from a seminar paper into a published scholarly article. The project covers a time period from 2004 to 2010 and documents the article's most important streams of input. Those streams include the author's passion for his subject and the ongoing mentoring he received from Professor Jane Greer, his teacher and also the editor of Young Scholars in Writing, and from Professor Patti Hanlon-Baker, member of the journal's editorial board.

May 2007

  1. Re media ting Science: A Case Study of Socialization

January 2002

  1. An Ethnographic Study of Accommodation