Martine Rife & Doug Eyman, WIDE RAs, publish articles in Kairos 11.1

Martine Rife's "Why Kairos matters to writing: A reflection on its intellectual property conversation and developing law during the last ten years" and Doug Eyman's "The Arrow and the Loom: A Decade of Kairos" appear in the Tenth Anniversary Issue of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, & Pedagogy.

Eyman's article begins

This is not so much a history of Kairos per se as it is a reflection upon my experience with the journal over the past ten years, mixed in with some data that speaks to our place in the discipline and in the digital scholarly networks in which our work circulates. The history of the journal, like any complex system, cannot be told from only one point of view: in the sidebar I will therefore suggest alternate visions and versions that can be read as complementary or contradictory to my narrative of our evolution.

Eyman is the Senior Editor of Kairos. Read his full article.
Rife's article chronicles a common theme in Kairos over the first ten years, issues of intellectual property. She writes

With seeming premonition, in the first issue of Kairos (Spring 1996), Lunsford et. al discussed issues of ownership in the writing classroom, covering topics such as collaboration and copyright/ownership. The authors predicted that “the commodification everywhere apparent in late capitalist economy is at work on the Net and looks to be increasing.” They questioned who will eventually own and control reading and writing. Remember, 1996 was before most of the digital copyright and filesharing court cases that I explore in the webtext occurred and was also before the Digital Media Copyright Act (DMCA) was passed. This was a pre-Napster/Grokster and pre-Lawrence-Lessig era. (Lessig [1999, 2004] argues that we need an entire change in the copyright regime, a change where instead of every fixed, original work being automatically copyrighted, one should have to "opt-in" to copyright protection.) So, before Stanford Law School produced intellectual property (IP) pioneer Lawrence Lessig, these authors in Kairos asked: Will writing be allowed?