Kairos - Call for Reviews

Kairos Reviews is currently seeking reviews for the following texts. If you are interested in reviewing these or other texts (including Web-based and new media resources) appropriate for Kairos, please email a letter of interest and a brief CV to kreviews@technorhetoric.net

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• Ron Burnett’s How Images Think (2005)
• Angela Crow’s Aging Literacies: Training and Development Challenges for Faculty (2006)
• Christine Harold’s OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture (2007)
• Mary Hock and Michelle Kendrick’s (eds.) Eloquent Images: Word and Image in the Age of New Media (2005)
• Mark Liberman and Geoffrey K. Pullum’s Far from the Madding Gerund: And Other Dispatches from LANGUAGE LOG (2006)
• Carolyn Lin and David Atkin’s Communication Technology and Social Change: Theory and Implications (2007)
• David E. Nye’s Technology Matters: Lessons to Live With (2006)
• Lee Odell and Susan Katz’s Writing in a Visual Age (2006)
• Jason Swarts’s Together with Technology: Writing Review, Enculturation, and Technological Mediation (2007)
• T. L. Taylor’s Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture (2006)
• Barry Thatcher and Carlos Evia’s (eds.) Outsourcing Technical Communication: Issues, Policies and Practices (2007)
• Bernadette Wegenstein’s Getting Under the Skin: Body and Media Theory (2006)

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• Comppile and CompFAQs: http://comppile.tamucc.edu/
• PaperToolsPro (a “tool by which students gather, document, and organize information for an outline or draft as well as help students analyze, synthesize, and evaluate researched information”; copy of software available by request for review)
• Online textbook supplements and companion Web sites
• Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies: http://rccs.usfca.edu
• Technical Communication E-Server: http://tc.eserver.org/
• Viz (“portal maintained by the Visual Rhetoric Workgroup”; “The goal of the site is to examine ‘the ways in which rhetoric, visual culture, and pedagogy interact with and inform each other.’”): http://workgroups.cwrl.utexas.edu/visual/