[ATTW-L] CFP: Kairos Special Issue on Science Communication, Oct 30, 2023

Mon Aug 14 18:44:46 UTC 2023

*Hi everyone,  We would appreciate your sharing this CFP with anyone who
would be interested.  Thanks!  Karen*

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*Call for Proposals*

*Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy*
<https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/>

*Fall 2025 Special Issue:  *

*Science Communication: Multimodal Challenges and Opportunities*

*Guest Editors, Writing Program, University of California, Santa Barbara:*

Karen Lunsford <http://www.writing.ucsb.edu/people/karen-lunsford>, PhD

Kara Mae Brown, MFA

Rebecca Chenoweth, PhD

Kenny Smith, PhD

Amanda Stansell, PhD

*Kairos* is a peer-reviewed, academic, open-access, online journal founded
in 1996. Scholars represent their research using a mixture of written text,
audio files, video clips, or other technologies ("webtexts").

This special issue of *Kairos* aims to investigate how digital and
multimodal technologies have transformed science communication (broadly
defined) over the last decade. We have seen changes in how both researchers
and the public interact with scientific information–changes driven by
scientific concerns (e.g., the pandemic, climate change) and recent
technological developments (e.g., in social media, video games,
transcription, artificial intelligence, sound). We seek scholarship that
both takes into account the current state of science communication but also
anticipates where the field is headed in the future. We encourage pieces
that guide and challenge our colleagues as they and their students navigate
the shifting science writing landscape.

In particular, we encourage work that takes advantage of *Kairos's* capacities
as an Internet-based publication, using the affordances of digital and
multimodal rhetoric to go beyond what is possible in a print text.
*Kairos’s *publication platform can allow authors to present the
*dynamic* multimedia
and multimodal content that now characterizes much of science communication
(see the examples mentioned below). We also seek research that investigates
how digital technologies are breaking down barriers between disciplines and
revealing the interconnection between science and the humanities that has
become central to discourse about science in public spaces.

The following serve as suggestions for proposals; however, we are open to a
wide variety of topics.

●      How have new media (podcasts, video games, social media platforms)
and new capacities of media (data visualization, AI art/writing) changed
both academic and public science communication?

●      How are informal science learning spaces (e.g., museums,
edutainment, after-school programs) shaping science communication? What can
Writing Studies learn from / about these spaces?

●      How have digital technologies or social media contributed to or
addressed fraud, data manipulation, and other lapses in science?

●      How has the digital turn diversified the population of science
communicators (e.g., demographics in authorship and/or engagement;
supporting indigenous voices in science communication)?

●      How has this turn facilitated community-building among minoritized
scientists (e.g., #BlackAFinSTEM)?

●      How might digital spaces reformulate our understanding of some
perennial distinctions within our discipline, such as the division between
“science” and “technical” communication?

●      How have storytelling (including memoirs and ‘day in the life’) and
visual art (including comics) been used to communicate with the public
about science in digital spaces?

●      How might we best integrate, examine, and interrogate our approaches
to teaching SciComm in courses and programs?

Authors are encouraged to respond to these questions with dynamic
multimodal evidence, such as screen captures (e.g., of interactions on
citizen science projects), audio clips (e.g., of audio-based projects such
as databases of bird calls), video clips (e.g., of vlogs, popular science
videos, physical gestures), renditions of VR or AR experiences, and other
forms of multimodal representation.

We seek submissions for the following sections of the journal: Topoi,
Inventio, Praxis, Interviews, Reviews, and Disputatio. Please consult
the Kairos
submission page <https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/submissions.html> for
descriptions. Queries to the guest editors are welcome.

*Submission Deadline (Proposals): October 30, 2023*

Contact the guest editors with a proposal via email. (Subject line:
“SciComm submission: YOUR-NAME”.) The proposal should include a 1-2
paragraph explanation of the webtext’s topic and argument; a 1-2 paragraph
description of the webtext’s structure and design (including a URL and/or
mockup images, if authors wish); a list of associated technologies that
will be incorporated (consult general *Kairos* guidelines re: which
technologies are supported); and a brief annotated bibliography. Authors
will receive confirmation of submission, via email, within 2-3 days.

Submission email: klunsford at writing.ucsb.edu

*Proposed Publication Timeline:*

Proposals due: October 30, 2023

Notification of acceptances of proposals: November 21, 2023

Full webtexts due: May 1, 2024

Revised webtexts due: October 15, 2024

Publication date: Fall 2025

*General Guidelines:*

• Please consult the general submission guidelines
<https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/submissions.html>, particularly
regarding supported technologies.

• *Kairos* can accept most web-ready file formats. (Check with the guest
editors if you are unsure.) Please keep in mind that this excludes
word-processed documents, although you will be asked to provide transcripts
of materials as pdfs.

• We prefer URLs of webtexts for review purposes. If you do not have access
to open or password-protected webspace, please contact the guest editors in
advance of the submission deadline to arrange alternate means of delivery.

-- 
Karen Lunsford, PhD
Associate Professor of Writing
Director, Writing Program
3432 South Hall
University of California, Santa Barbara 93106-3010
klunsford at writing.ucsb.edu
Pronouns: she, her, hers

-- 
Karen Lunsford, PhD
Associate Professor of Writing
Director, Writing Program
3432 South Hall
University of California, Santa Barbara 93106-3010
klunsford at writing.ucsb.edu
Pronouns: she, her, hers
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