De Anza College Week 4 Communications Function of Maps Paper

I’m working on a communications discussion question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

How do maps frame ways of seeing? What does a map provide? What does it hide? 

For this week’s discussion post, think critically about the function of maps. Rather than taking maps as given set of instructions for “understanding” space, think of them as advancing particularized ways of seeing. You can think about maps as communicating cultural values, as tools for cultural resistance, as justifications for increasing state power, as advancing imaginative geographies. 

 discuss something you have been thinking about this week.