Social media could be thought as tools for disrupting prestige, position and geography based barriers for scientific conversations.
A few weeks ago, right before the mastodon wave, I summarized my takes on this in a tutorial for About Open on how to unleash the power of online tools for professional purposes in an open science environment.
Throughout the text I stressed the concept that every attempt to disseminate scientific outputs online is, above all, a scientific communication task. (1/3) 🧵
#openaccess #scicomm #altmetrics
Real life interactions, among the other things, are a way to filter out scientific outputs, in order to avoid unnecessary reading and discover fresh, original ones. Tracing the impact of these interactions was possible only via citations, losing the trace of what brought authors to that mention.
DOIs and article level metrics are a way to quantitatively reconstruct a complete trace of impact. This applies to every published output! (2/3)
Fine tune your content and target and carefully carve your threads for presenting your work online.
It takes time and committment to build and maintain an online professional reputation, no matter which is the platform you chose.
This is a possible way to transform the internet towards what was stated in the Berlin Declaration: a functional medium for distributing knowledge (3/3)🟨