geography of stupid questions

Various people are asking me a question: what does a geographer do? They all assume, that I’ll be a teacher. NO, I won’t. Then, they want to know where geographers that don’t teach, work. This gets pretty annoying, after you explain it to a third person in a month. But I guess one of my [...]

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phones: calling a person or a place?

I’ve been reading some articles for my thesis and found an interesting quote:
“Mobile phones permit us to phone a person directly,
not to phone a place in the hope that the person is there.“
– A. Malecki, 1993*
Do you call persons or do you call places?
 
*Malecki, A., 1993. Digital development in rural areas: potentials and [...]

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