''Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy'' is a biannual peer-reviewed

academic journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and ...

covering the fields of

computers and writing Computers and writing is a sub-field of college English studies about how computers and digital technologies affect literacy and the writing process. The range of inquiry in this field is broad including discussions on ethics when using computers ...

, composition studies, and

digital rhetoric Digital rhetoric can be generally defined as communication that exists in the digital sphere. As such, digital rhetoric can be expressed in many different forms —including but not limited to text, images, videos, and software. Due to the incr ...

. It was established in 1996, and was the first academic journal to publish multimedia webtexts. Founding editor Mick Doherty said:

This new journal has a great deal to do with ''kairos'', particularly in terms of its appropriateness and timeliness in our field at this time. As we are discovering the value of hypertextual and other online writing, it is not only important to have a forum for exploring this growing type of composition, but it is essential that we have a ''webbed'' forum within which to hold those conversations. With this journal, the ''Kairos'' staff and authors intend to push many envelopes—of theory and pedagogy, of technology, of composition, and of professional scholarship—at a time when these efforts are vital to continued growth of our field. In essence, we've tried to make this the most ''kairotic'' journal we could.

''Kairos'' readership often exceeds 45,000 readers per month during issue release months. The journal's sister site, '' Kairosnews'', ran from 1997 to 2006, providing an online forum for discussion of issues. The

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is Douglas Eyman ( George Mason University). The word '' kairos'' is an

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic p ...

term with meanings including "exact or critical time, season, opportunity", used in rhetoric and other fields.

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