The signs says? And doesn’t say?
Created by Brett Oppegaard, for Washington State University Vancouver's DTC 375 class, spring 2011
Another social construction. ...
What is a map?
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Anything amiss?
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Anything amiss?
What defines the boundaries?
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What information does it organize?
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What information does it organize?
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How other people envision it …
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If a globe, why Europe in the center?
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That is a perspective ...
What does a map really depict?
What does a map really depict?
A map is a piece of visual rhetoric, depicting a “place” at a particular
point in time but that has been intentionally reduced in size, and its
contents have been selectively distilled.
- David T. Stephens, “Making Sense of Maps,”courtesy of HistoryMatters.gmu.edu
Can it tell a story?
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Do connections have to be physical?
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What are the boundaries?
Do they have to be flat?
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