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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.

Jun 24, 2026

18:05
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?
18:20
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.
18:31
And it only hit it off, I think, 10, 15 years ago.
18:36
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.
18:47
So actually what we're doing now is what we have done before.
18:51
So we go back to the roots to a certain bit.
18:54
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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30:24
Lumen, where have we got to and what do we have left to do?

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