Submitted by rhetoricat on Fri, 05/04/2007 - 19:13.
We live in an increasingly visual world. Images possess immense emotional capital. They matter to us. They are the anchors that orient us and allow us to make sense of the world. The act of seeing is powerful and influences the way that we understand and interact in the world. Images matter.
As a rhetorician and teacher of writing, I am especially interested in increasing our understanding of the visual, its importance in world-making and the ways that it fits into our writing. The vision (excuse the pun) for this site is that it serve as a clearinghouse of information on visual rhetoric. Ideally, scholars in a variety of disciplines will contribute to the site, engaging in interdisciplinary conversations that will enrich all of our understanding of the visual and visual rhetoric.
This is only the beginning. Please check back as I develop and update the site.
Submitted by rhetoricat on Mon, 04/30/2007 - 21:44.
This Drupal book is organized to provide scholarly resources related to visual rhetoric. The sources are divided by academic discipline and tagged using keywords for alternate methods of locating information. Each discipline and subdiscipline contains a list of resources, some of which have been annotated and others that still need annotations or summaries. To submit resources or offer to annotate currently listed resources, please contact cshuler@purdue.edu. Please include name, areas of interest and/or specialization as well as information regarding your site contribution.
Submitted by rhetoricat on Sat, 04/28/2007 - 14:01.
Submitted by rhetoricat on Tue, 04/24/2007 - 23:12.
I've spent a good bit of time hashing through various information architecture schematics as I try to come up with a usable site structure. I based my schematics on the seminars that I've taken with Dan Brown and from related IA readings. (See the Production book "Explanation and Resources for Information Architecture")
Submitted by rhetoricat on Thu, 04/19/2007 - 04:19.
Some may wonder why a website on visual rhetoric isn't more visually stimulating and it's a fair question for which I have several answers:
Submitted by rhetoricat on Thu, 04/19/2007 - 02:55.
I've chosen to use Drupal, an open source content management system, for this site. I chose Drupal after considering several other CMS alternatives. My experience with Drupal in the past three years have convinced me that it is an immensely effective and easy to use collaboration tool. I use it on my personal website and have used it with every course that I have taught in the past two and a half years, including two courses that were conducted exclusively online. Needless to say, a class that is almost entirely dependent on an online system requires that you choose carefully.
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