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Geographical investigation of the network world: Basic principles and promising directions

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Some specific characteristics typical of the emerging network society are considered by the author in the context of achievements of geography as a science. New directions and topics for investigations related to (i) the network business, (ii) the existing social and political networks are formulated. Analysis of the available experience bound up with geographical investigations of social-economic networks is given. The starting principles of a new (network) paradigm of social geography are outlined. Some promising directions of geographical investigations related to the information networks are defined and described.

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Original Russian Text © V.I. Blanutsa, 2012, published in Geography and Natural Resources, 2012, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 1–13.

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Blanutsa, V.I. Geographical investigation of the network world: Basic principles and promising directions. Geogr. Nat. Resour. 33, 1–9 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1875372812010015

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