Maps and Social Networking like WhatsApp have a Purpose.
The reality is most people still utilising maps as a
way of discovering places yet maps are much more than way discovering places.
There are numerous methods for communicating ideas rather than the traditional
map, such as exhibitions, art, music, and so forth. The significance of mapping
in this case is the presentation of all kinds of quantitative and qualitative
data connected by space and place. It is vital in my view that individuals can
express their own social concerns and in addition their own ways of being
instead of having these reflected by outsiders. In view of this I trust that it
is essential for individuals to choose what they consider important to “map”
rather than have this decided for them.
WhatsApp underpin the ability to create instant
communication sensations. With WhatsApp, a new information or discussion can
advance from place to place or space to space as quickly as possible and in a
convenient time frame.
Even in the creation of the more traditional way
finding maps there is a need to empower people to make their own maps. A
skilled map can create plans and information that clearly reflect what is
intended to be proposed. And when the message is clear, questions are more
easily answered and doubts laid to rest.
Likewise for WhatsApp media as a communicative space, is
a social media platform for individuals with same interest and who share
content without relying on mainstream media house, it is a space where
individuals can discuss issues that are topical to them and are able to
generate a drive of mutual influence (Kuttainen, 2017). For many years WhatsApp
has continued to influence mass opinions and perceptions. However, the
emergence of social media sites such as WhatsApp has taken this very concept next
stage up, with some believing that WhatsApp now shapes the way individuals think, debate, observe and engage in
communications as compared to the previous generation which was shaped by relying
onto information from traditional
and mainstream media houses. It is an obsession behaviour many individuals are
not aware of it until their lives are affected or challenged with an
alternative perceptions, much like Prouty who described individual who are
indirectly and unintentionally affected by a particular design they experience only
in passing, Prouty, (2009).
My own observation suggests that, like any other media
network WhatsApp is form of social mapping, I is designed for a purpose and when
you use WhatsApp you are directed onto different space and places exactly the
same as mapping. WhatsApp presents users with lots of different information and
massages which enables individuals to become more analytical as they go through
large quantities of messages or information, Woods et al (2006, pp. 1-12) also noted
that all maps have a purpose and gave an example of a map for a world of
sailors.
By. Mollel.
Reference List.
Kuttainen, V. (2017). BA1002: Our space: Networks,
narratives and the making of place, lecture 4: Maps. [PowerPoint
slides]. Retrieved from http://learnjcu.edu.au
Prouty, R. (2009). A turtle on a leash. Retrieved from https://learnjcu.edu.au/ http://www.onewaystreet.typepad.com/one_way_street/2009/10/a-turtle-on-a-leash.html
Quercia, D. (2015 Jan 6). Happy maps.
Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJg9SXIcPiM
Wood, D., Kaiser, W. L., & Abramms, B.
(2006). Seeing through maps: Many ways to see the world (New ed.).
Oxford: New Internationalist.
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