Mapping Different Geographies

To "everyday consumers" of information from a popular media the "not-real" is experienced by almost every time they read a book or magazine, turn on a television, watch a movie or access information via the Web. They are instantly taken to another world, which may well be the very reason that they use these devices - for "escaping" their real reality. They may see access to media as a way to escape reality, to explore and experience "other" worlds and to participate in non-daily activities. This is something that is just an attribute of popular media consumption. Professional designers and cartographers use the non-real to make it easier to navigate the real using paper maps.