Open AccessStanje in prihodnost poljudnoznanstvenega pisanja v slovenski geografiji
Author(s) -
Karel Natek
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
dela - oddelek za geografijo filozofske fakultete v ljubljani
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.162
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1854-1089
pISSN - 0354-0596
DOI - 10.4312/dela.40.11.197-214
Subject(s) - physics , humanities , art
The article discusses the state of popular science writing in Slovenian geography which used to be a very important topic in the past and has contributed greatly to the good reputation of geography. Given the rapid development of new means of telecommunication and Internet, geography somehow stayed on the sidelines and cannot find the way to the appropriate presence in these media. It is not adequately represented in the (Slovenian) Wikipedia, although it could greatly contribute to the improvement of its quality but, the absence of geography is most apparent in official state and municipal web sites, where geography is virtually non-existent