• public space
• rhetorics of space
• visual rhetoric

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• pedagogy
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During the past couple of years, Nate Kreuter has been refining a visual rhetoric PowerPoint presentation for presentation in rhetoric and writing classrooms. Nate delivered this presentation to various classes at UT over the years, and he's now completed a copyright safe, Creative Commons version.

The original presentation included copyrighted images, and this made it difficult to distribute. The presentation is now available for download at Viz., and it's published under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license.

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One of our Master's students, Dan Richards, posted this to our TA blog recently...it's pretty cool.

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NPR has visualized Palin and Biden's words here. Interesting.

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I've been meaning to post this for a while (link via Earth Wide Moth):

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A friend sent me a link to Retrievr last week and I've been meaning to post. It's a site that allows you to draw a picture or upload and image and then locate similar images.

To me, this tool does an interesting thing with the "grammar" of images. Rather than searching for images with words, one searches for images with images. Rather than forcing the grid of words onto an image and trying to guess how one categorized, say, a picture of a sunset...

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• baseball
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I've been thinking a good bit about maps lately. UT's First Year Forum book is The Devil's Highway, and our first year students will be talking a great deal about immigration and "border policy." This has led me to play around with Google Maps a bit (more on that in a post at Blogging Pedagogy) and think about cartographical writing.

This map of the "United Countries of Baseball" (link via Deadspin) is the latest map that's found its way into my personal blogosphere. I was particularly interested to see how the Pittsburgh Pirates "country" extends so far south and to see how big the Atlanta Braves country is (considering that Braves fans are known for being, um, less than enthusiastic.)

Does anyone know what kind of rhetorical work is being done with maps?

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• election
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It's not too soon to start election poll watching, though we should put a moratorium on the efficacy of election polls...that is, announce a huge caveat about polls. In 2004, I constantly watched electoral-vote.com because it was such a tight race between Kerry and Bush. One night, in the wee hours of the morning, there was a delicious 'glitch' on the site that rendered the normally red and blue map of the U.S. as below:

Couldn't resist grabbing a screen shot of it for posterity.

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Viz., the CWRL's Visual Rhetoric portal, is looking for bloggers. Here's a snippet from the site about what/who they're looking for:

Now that Viz has a well-established blog, we would like to expand the circle of scholars who contribute to it. In that spirit, we are issuing a call for contributors. Anyone with an interest in visual rhetoric (broadly defined) is welcome to apply to become a Viz contributor. If you would like to be a regular or semi-regular contributor, please email Nate Kreuter at nathan-kreuter@mail.utexas.edu. If you are interested, please email your name, institutional affiliation, and position. Also, please write us a paragraph or two (nothing fancy) on why you would like to become a Viz contributor. And if you could send us a sample of relevant scholarship, either published or unpublished, that would be very helpful (but isn't absolutely necessary).

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• theory
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Viz., the new visual rhetoric blog from the CWRL, has a new piece on "ekphrasis" that offers a nice gloss of the term and some further readings for those looking to get a bit deeper.

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