Call for Nominations: John Lovas Memorial Academic Weblog Award

Scholars have been making a significant contribution to the knowledge in rhetoric and composition via their weblogs in much the same way that Kairos has worked to push forward scholarship as the field's first ejournal. The 2007 John Lovas Memorial Academic Weblog Award is sponsored by Kairos and KairosNews and is given in recognition of the valuable contributions that bloggers have made to the discipline and in recognition and remembrance of John Lovas's contributions to the legitimation of academic blogging.

Criteria

The award will be given to the weblog which best meets the following criteria. The weblog must:

• Be at least six months old from the date of submission for consideration.
• Be updated regularly (an average of at least once per week).
• Actively engage other academic weblogs; in other words, the blogger must be a public intellectual.
• Deal with the kind of issues addressed in Kairos and other journals in computers and writing studies.

Please see our list of past award winners for examples of weblogs which meet these criteria.

The deadline for nominations is April 1, 2007; please e-mail your nomination to the Kairos editors at kairosed@technorhetoric.net.

In your e-mail, please include:

• the name and URL of the blog
• its author(s)
• a description of at least two paragraphs which details why the blog meets the awards criteria. 

Awards will be presented at the 2007 Computers and Writing Conference at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. If you have questions, please e-mail the Kairos Editors at kairosed@technorhetoric.net.