viz.

The award-winning digital publication viz. is committed to the intersections of Rhetoric and visual culture. In keeping with its mission to promote visual literacy, the viz. blog presents a daily community forum for discussing  images in the digital age.  The website attracts a steady, significant following with an international audience made up of users from 144 countries and territories.

The website is maintained by the Digital Writing and Research Lab at the University of Texas at Austin by members of the Visual Rhetoric Project Group. The viz. blog is the winner of the Jon Lovas Memorial Weblog Award.

For instructors,  a number of resources are available, such as Teaching, a static page with resources for pedagogy, and the Visual Theory page, hosting content in photography theory, new media theory, and design. The feature Views includes interviews with prominent Visual Rhetoric and Communications scholars.  

Scholars, instructors, artists, photographers, and anyone with an interest in the diversity of Visual Rhetoric and culture are welcome to contribute to the blog or other portions of the website. First time users may contact the editors to set up collaborations or accounts for contributions. For a recent review of viz., see Kairos 13.