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We at Viz. were extremely gratified to learn today that we tied with the always excellent ProfHacker, the pedagogy and technology blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education, to win the Kairos 2010 John Lovas Memorial Weblog Award.  It has been an exciting and productive year at Viz., and the editors are especially grateful to our wonderful team of blogger contributors for the 2009-2010 year; much of the credit for this award goes to them.  Their diverse and engaging work on visual rhetoric surveyed everything from Roland Barthes's work on photography to the karotic appeals of the TV musical Glee, in ways that were both theoretically incisive but also quite useful for instructors in visual rhetoric.

This year's bloggers were, in alphabetical order (with links to their work on Viz.):

Emily Bloom

Andi Gustavson 

Frederick Heard

Eileen McGinnis

Rachel Schneider

Laura Smith

We are looking forward to another great year, to a continuous and lively discussion on the blog, and to the development of new, useful materials for teaching visual rhetoric.  As always, thanks for reading.

Cheers,

The Viz. Editors, Noel Radley and Tim Turner