About
Associate Prof. (Oslo Metropolitan University, OsloMet) I am a researcher and educator in the Sociology of literature. My research has examined practical evaluative cultures among professional and avid readers. How do readers evaluate, value and articulate their aesthetic reading experiences? What is the contextual meaning when readers negotiate their reading experiences? I am currently part of an editorial team for a new series of Elements, published by Cambridge University Press, called Readers & Reading, which explores the dynamics of the post-digital environment and what it means to be a reader in our contemporary regional, post-digital, global reading culture.
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Publications and research
Scientific publications
Skjerdingstad, Kjell Ivar
;
Oterholm, Knut
(2025).
Litteratursociologi i nytt ljus: Red. Karl Berglund & Ann Steiner
| Samlaren.
Samlaren: tidsskrift för forskning om svensk och annan nordisk litteratur.
Vol. 146, 2025.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5558538
Oterholm, Knut
(2025).
Oppdage, formidle og begrunne: Oppdage, formidle og begrunne Den samtalebaserte vurderingens verdier og betingelser.
Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap.
Vol. 55.
https://doi.org/10.54797/tfl.v55i1.55927
Oterholm, Knut
(2024).
Å finne en stemme i verden, mens jeg går bortover.
Karlsen, Ole; Kvinnsland, Ranveig; Rustad, Hans Kristian Strandstuen (Ed.).
p. 109-140.
Novus Forlag.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4799604
Vold, Tonje;
Oterholm, Knut
(2023).
Når litteraturfestivalen finner sted. En undersøkelse av litteraturfestivaler i Odda, Bergen og Lillehammer i 2021 og 2022.
Passage.
Vol. 38.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3075993
Skjerdingstad, Kjell Ivar
;
Oterholm, Knut
(2022).
From readers’ advisory to literary advocacy – a conceptual exploration.
Information Research: An international electronic journal.
Vol. 27.
https://doi.org/10.47989/colis2233
Skjerdingstad, Kjell Ivar
;
Oterholm, Knut
(2020).
Resignasjon og anerkjennelse: Jakob Sandes sosiologiske poetikk.
Evjen, Sunniva; Olsen, Heidi Kristin; Tveit, Åse Kristine (Ed.).
Rød mix: Ragnar Audunson som forsker og nettverksbygger. p. 233-256.
ABM-media AS.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4372506
Tallerås, Kim
;
Colbjørnsen, Terje
;
Oterholm, Knut
;
Larsen, Håkon
(2020).
Cultural Policies, Social Missions, Algorithms and Discretion: What Should Public Service Institutions Recommend?.
Sundqvist, Anneli; Berget, Gerd; Nolin, Jan; Skjerdingstad, Kjell Ivar (Ed.).
Sustainable Digital Communities. 15th International Conference, iConference 2020, Boras, Sweden, March 23–26, 2020, Proceedings. p. 588-595.
Springer.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43687-2_49
Rothbauer, Paulette;
Skjerdingstad, Kjell Ivar
; McKechnie, Lynne (E.F.);
Oterholm, Knut
(2016).
Plotting the reading experience. Theory/practice/politics.
ISBN: 9781771121729.
404 p.
Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3564465
Skjerdingstad, Kjell Ivar
;
Oterholm, Knut
(2016).
Tempering Ambiguity - The Quality of the Reading Experience.
Rothbauer, Paulette; Skjerdingstad, Kjell Ivar; McKechnie, Lynne (E.F.); Oterholm, Knut (Ed.).
Plotting the reading experience. Theory/practice/politics. p. 115-130.
Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4017337
Oterholm, Knut
(2016).
Folkebiblioteket og kvaliteter i litteraturen: et formidlingsperspektiv.
Eliassen, Knut Ove; Prytz, Øyvind (Ed.).
p. 140-161.
Fagbokforlaget.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4058032
