The Map Metaphor

The Map Metaphor

1. What does the metaphor of the map mean to you? How might this be helpful in the course? What other maps (concepts) from your life can you now question certainty of? does this mean they are less helpful than you once thought? 
        The metaphor of the map in my perspective shows that the 'truth' varies from one person to the next,  thus the 'truth' of the map in my opinion is not necessarily important, as long as they are useful in completing the specific task it was tailored to do.When linking this to knowledge and this course it is more efficient to think of knowledge as being appropriate and useful for a specific task rather then dwelling on the truth of it, as different tasks can require different types of knowledge. Moreover, it will allow us to think from different aspects that may seem right to me as an individual but not to others, thus indicating that people from different aspects of the world will have knowledge that differs from one person the the next because everyone has had unalike experiences, thoughts, personalities, cultures etc.  From my daily life I can now question certainty of world maps and the types of messages they are sending to us through their  relative changes in size and other differences that are significant from one map to the other, Furthermore, how I view the world from different perspectives that are being shown. These different world maps are less helpful is the aspect measuring dimensions or looking deeper into the accuracy of the map vs the real world, Furthermore also in the understanding of the social ranking that is placed in a map and how it impacts the real world.









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