Diverse Approaches to the Importance of Geography: the Death of Geography or Geography Matters in the Information Age!
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A new form of diversity appears nowadays when theoretical geographers rethink the importance of geographical space, place, distance or other principal notions. This paper aims to introduce how geographical approaches to the phenomena, which evolved in the so-called information age, got diffused in everyday life. Statements considering spatiality or geography of information economy and society are basically influenced by the type of space being applied in examinations, such as physical, network, or web space, or virtual realities. This diversity primarily influences the discussions on modern interpretations of geography. The traditional concept of place will be revalorised: it actually dissolves in virtual space, meanwhile the role of discrete place disappears by the possibility of spatial independency, while on the other hand, spatial dependency differentiates space again, and appreciates selected places. The importance of physical distance has unambiguously decreased, instead of that the role of network distance and social distance can be emphasised. The paper tries to call attention on those numerous different ways in which geography is being revaluated in the 21st century.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009