technorhetoric.netIssue 24.2 (Spring 2020) - Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy

Kairos A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy ISSN 1521-2300 Issues About Submit Board Staff Awards kCast Open Issue 24.2 Spring 2020 Logging On In This Issue Cheryl Ball, Editor instead of the ul#webtexts-- Disputatio Building Rhetorlist: A Call for Small, Meaningful Projects in Rhetoric & Composition Tim Lockridge This webtext focuses on Lockridge's production of Rhetorlist, an inventory of new books published in Rhetoric and Writing, Composition Studies, Technical Communication, and related disciplines. Tracing the histories and challenges of these disciplines' engagement with digital tools, Lockridge argues for an attention to small, meaningful projects of service to field, and offers strategies for the development of such projects. Screen Reading: A Gallery of (Re)Imagined Interfaces Bethany Monea This webtext is a digital gallery of six (re)imagined interfaces, designed to de-familiarize and call attention to the material and aesthetic components of web design. By (re)imagining six everyday interfaces that commonly mediate online activity, the gallery offers space for viewers to question and explore issues of navigation, orientation, metaphor, language, embodiment, and infrastructure that undergird human-computer interaction. Forgetting as a Function: When the Internet Wants to Remember, How Can We Learn to Forget? Sarah Welsh In this article, I propose a social process for digital forgetting (or promoting forgetfulness of media traces that should be relatively inconsequential) using one successful example from Twitter. One example is of course not exhaustive, but it was chosen as a representative model of the ways users are learning to forget. If our systems are not built to forget, we might consider how we can do so not (only) by combating technological functions, but by working with them. Topoi Don’t Read the Comments: Women’s Rhetorical Strategies in the Comments Sections of News Articles Bailey Madison Poland The comments sections below online news articles are popularly regarded as hostile—but many scholars see comments sections as spaces that expand democratic discourse. This webtext complicates the tension between these two interpretations of the comments sections by examining women’s rhetorical strategies in response to gendered hostility that accompany articles covering feminism and women’s issues. Persuasion, Procedure, and Planeswalkers: The Protocological Rhetoric of Magic: The Gathering Kevin Brock, Trevor C. Meyer, & Adam S. Lerner In this webtext, we explore how Magic and other complex analog systems operate rhetorically as activity networks. Our scrutiny of Magic’s protocols leads us to consider and compare the game’s anticipated activities (as described in its game rules and our social expectations, conventions, and norms involved in playing the game) with its realized expressions of those activities (as encountered when actually playing one or more iterations of the game itself). Rhetoric's Outliers in Second Language Writing: A Corpus-Enabled Study Jay Jordan This webtext reports on initial corpus-based analysis of roughly 45 years' worth of scholarship in top-tier journals in the field of second language writing. Findings suggest that while “rhetoric” is variously inflected by specific, historical preoccupations of the field, articles throughout the corpus evince a sustained interest in deploying “rhetoric” as a label that names explicit pedagogical targets for multilingual student writers. Inventio Weaving and Yarning Sovereign Relationships Aunty Lorraine Tye, Yoko Akama, Linda Elliott, Seth Keen, Faye McMillan, Mark McMillan, & Peter West This webtext pursues pluralities by exploring how text, video, and images can be braided to evoke sovereign relationships. Indigenous sovereignty is a significant premise of this work, animated through weaving and yarning – both a practice of Indigenous sovereignty and a graceful methodology that invites non-Indigenous and Indigenous sovereignties to strengthen and maintain sovereign relationships. Praxis 'Stronger Together': Open Pedagogy, Digital Scholarship, and Hillary Clinton's Rhetorical Appeal Julia Canzoneri, Brie Cronin, Iris Finkel, Melissa Harden, Wendy Hayden, Alex Kreichman, Dana Krugle, Sarah Parente, Rasha Reda, & Christina Yim Open Pedagogy relies on tools and collaboration to facilitate public discourse. Student projects are linked throughout the narrative, which were also collaboratively composed. As we will demonstrate, the inclusion of digital tools enabled students to engage with the rhetoric on a level appropriate for the times, creating our own kairotic moment. What Reddit Has to Teach Us About Discourse Communities Ryan Shepherd This webtext provides one way to teach students how to enter a new discourse community; allowing them to then use what they’ve learned to enter new discourse communities after leaving their composition classes. The purpose is not to teach students a specific discourse so much as to teach them how to recognize and enter new discourse communities on their own. PraxisWiki Connecting Writing Programs and Faculty with Disability Services Jay Dolmage, Melissa Helquist, & Tara Wood A DIY Electronic Survey Device for Studying User Experience John T. Sherrill Visualizing Suffering: Undergraduate Big Data and Humanities Research on Affect and Politics Astrid Giugni & Jessica Hines Interviews Ways of Knowing and Doing Stephen J. McElroy, Matthew Davis, & Rory Lee A synthesis of converging and contrasting perspectives on ways of knowing and doing in digital rhetoric pedagogy among 25 teacher-scholars that provides a rough sketch of the state of digital rhetoric pedagogy as it is understood and practiced in the second decade of the 21st century and as it is told by a range of voices, including leading voices, in the subfield of Digital Rhetoric and identifies and highlights areas of productive tension among interviewees’ responses. Index: All Kairos Interviews Reviews A Review of Retroactivism in the Lesbian Archives: Composing Pasts and Futures by Jean Bessette Maria Alberto Review of Bad Ideas About Writing edited by Cheryl Ball and Drew Loewe Brandie Bohney, Johnathan Brownlee, Renee Ann Drouin, Ran Meyer, Bailey Poland, Brian Urias, & Lena Ziegler A Review of Rhetorics of Motherhood by Lindal Buchanan Sarah E. S. Carter A Review of Digital Writing Assessment and Evaluation edited by Heidi McKee & Dànielle DeVoss Bonnie L. Martin A Review of the Virtual Martin Luther King (vMLK) Project Website by Victoria Gallagher Nupoor Ranade A Review of Reading to Learn and Writing to Teach by Beth Hewett Richard Samuelson Index: All Kairos Reviews About Kairos Kairos is a refereed open-access online journal exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy. The journal reaches a wide audience -- currently 45,000 readers per month, hailing from Ascension Island to Zimbabwe (and from every top-level domain country code in between); our international readership typically runs about 4,000 readers per month. Kairos publishes bi-annually, in August and January, with occasional special issues in May. Our current acceptance rate for published articles is approximately 10%. Since its first issue in January of 1996, the mission of Kairos has been to publish scholarship that examines digital and multimodal composing practices, promoting work that enacts its scholarly argument through rhetorical and innovative uses of new media. Kairos is one of the leading peer-reviewed journals in English Studies, made so by its dedication to academic quality through the journal’s extensive peer-review and editorial production processes. We publish "webtexts," which are texts authored specifically for publication on the World Wide Web. Webtexts are scholarly examinations of topics related to technology in English Studies fields (e.g., rhetoric, composition, technical and professional communication, education, creative writi...