Review of "Kairotically Speaking: Kairos and the Power of Identity"

Submitted by ErinK on October 31, 2006 - 10:24.

Tracy Bridgeford, one of our Kairos authors, wrote to the editorial staff to pass on a review of her article "Kairotically Speaking'': Kairos and the Power of Identity" by Dennis Jerz. In passing along this news, Tracy asked, "This would be equivalent to a comment in a print journal, don't you think?" What do you think?

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Print Journal?

Submitted by bobwhipple on November 1, 2006 - 07:40.

Jerz's comment is on his blog. How do we consider how blogs compare to print journals?

It's even more complex than that...

Submitted by Dennis G. Jerz on November 1, 2006 - 14:14.

Since Bridgeford's Kairos article begins as a response to an article I published in Kairos, the comment I posted on my blog is a continuation of that discussion. To what extent does it matter to us that the discussion continued on my blog, and is now here on KairosNews? To what extent should it matter to the hiring and review committees who must evaluate the quality of scholarship?

Dennis G. Jerz
Jerz's Literacy Weblog

what is scholarship?

Submitted by bleckb on November 1, 2006 - 14:28.

It would seem that we need a definition of scholarship that either includes or excludes conversations of this sort. Good luck getting that sort of thing accepted the way notions of print publications are accepted. Was there a similar struggle/tussle going from books to journal articles in deciding what counted/counts as scholarship?

bradley || bleckblog.org

I am a bit out of subject,

Submitted by frida (not verified) on August 23, 2007 - 05:53.

I am a bit out of subject, but i am curious about popularity of printed journals in comparison with electronic ones?
For example i have inet and i don't read printed materials. Is it the same with the others?

Linear Print vs. Fluid Bits

Submitted by Dennis G. Jerz on September 3, 2007 - 22:56.

On the whole, I think most books are worth the wait. Because books cost money, there's pressure to keep the quality high. But I'm not so sure about journal articles.

I read print all the time, but I prefer digital journals because they are easier to assign to my students, to link to in my blog, to copy and paste for my own writing, to search in archives, etc. My school doesn't have a huge research library, so journals like First Monday, Game Studies and Digital Humanities Quarterly are important to me. The full text of their articles is accessible to the internet, and bloggers and commentators are free to continue the discussion after the article has been published.

Several years ago I had a chance to submit an article to a print collection or an online collection. I now have a nice bound volume on my shelf, but when I wanted to assign it to my students, the publisher couldn't get enough copies to my university bookstore. I ended up assigning the digital collection (to which I did not submit).

That e-collection is still online, being read. The print collection is on my shelf, and it will look very nice in my tenure application file. But I'm far more excited by what the next generation of scholars can learn from sites like KairosNews and Grand Text Auto.

Dennis G. Jerz

Jerz's Literacy Weblog