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) 🧵
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@v_iacovella Not sure about "disrupting prestige". It also takes a lot of resources and (different) skills to do well in social media.
@OpenScienceFeed thanks for your comment.
I would agree with the second part (resources, skills, etc), even if I would say that you can keep it just informal / conversational and still dig out something from it. I would say that doing well on social media for scientific purposes have a different meaning wrt to the "standard" one (many followers, consistent interactions, etc).
Regarding the first part: I meant that it might be more likely to discuss with "big names" of a field online, where content - based conversations are basically open to everyone and in an asynchronous way, with respect to - for example - physical tables with restricted access in in - person conferences.
