Friday, November 26, 2010

"And So It Begins . . . "

I thought I had better get my own IN151 Visual Rhetoric blog started, in preparation for the Spring 2011 version of the class.  The beauty of teaching a class in visual rhetoric is that there is always fresh, new material to be analyzed with every passing day.

One "text" source that we will be examining often in the semester is the New York Times Photo Blog:

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/

Another site where we will begin some theoretical investigations is this one:

http://viz.cwrl.utexas.edu/node/411

There is an online textbook on the topic of Visual Rhetoric, but it is not quite developed enough yet to use as a full-fledged classroom textbook:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Visual_Rhetoric