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Sona Araste
Communication Officer at Max Weber Foundation and Policy Officer for OPERAS, advocating for open scholarly communication and Diamond Open Access.
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Jun 24, 2026
Sona Arasteh
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Andrew DubberHOST
How do you deal with the, not so much the ethics, but the approach to how you speak to a community? Is it simply, well, they're using that, so that's where we speak to them? Or is there more a kind of a cautious approach?
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18:20Sona ArastehGUEST
So I think what we sometimes forget is when we talk about X is that Yes, it was an incredibly useful tool in talking to scientific communities, but there was also a time before X.
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18:36Sona ArastehGUEST
And then, yes, it was incredibly useful, but we also have to take into account that before that we never had a time in history where we were able to reach out to scientific communities through a single tool.
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18:54Sona ArastehGUEST
Social media all are problematic to some extent because simply they are commercial platforms that want to maximize their profit, which from their point of view makes sense.
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