Sandra Boone
@boonesk.bsky.social
Strategic, values-driven communicator turned PhD candidate at @uosojc.bsky.social examining equity/responsibility concerns for PR practitioners, focusing on power in/of language. Misplaced Minnesotan (she/her)
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Sandra Boone
@boonesk.bsky.social
· Jun 8
To conclude year three at @uosojc.bsky.social, I successfully defended my PhD prospectus, “What’s right in what we write? Exploring the metalinguistic norms, language ideologies, and writing practices of the public relations industry.” #PublicRelations #GradLife
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The UW Center for an Informed Public is looking for postdocs (for 2026-2028) from across diverse disciplines whose research sheds light on the challenges of our modern information environment, promotes civic health, and/or helps people/communities navigate online spaces: apply.interfolio.com/177901
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November 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The UW Center for an Informed Public is looking for postdocs (for 2026-2028) from across diverse disciplines whose research sheds light on the challenges of our modern information environment, promotes civic health, and/or helps people/communities navigate online spaces: apply.interfolio.com/177901
"Words, grammar, text and talk, as well as gestures, photos, and videos, are the metaphorical water we are swimming in."
A position paper on critical language awareness by @linguadigitalis.bsky.social and others from Groningen and Cape Town
www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...
October 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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A position paper on critical language awareness by @linguadigitalis.bsky.social and others from Groningen and Cape Town
www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...
Frontiers | Critical language awareness as a future imperative: seeing the ‘water’
This position paper argues that critical language awareness (CLA) must be recognised as a core, future-oriented metacognitive competency. In our time marked ...
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October 29, 2025 at 6:35 AM
A position paper on critical language awareness by @linguadigitalis.bsky.social and others from Groningen and Cape Town
www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...
Workplace harmony is great—until it costs equity and justice. "The Price of Nice" by @amirabarger.bsky.social shows why “being nice” isn’t enough & what to do instead. amirabarger.com/books/the-pr...
The Price of Nice: Why Comfort Keeps Us Stuck and 4 Actions for Real Change | Amira Barger
This practical guide shows how to move past superficial workplace "niceness" to create real change through a proven four-step approach. Readers will learn how to transform toxic p
amirabarger.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Workplace harmony is great—until it costs equity and justice. "The Price of Nice" by @amirabarger.bsky.social shows why “being nice” isn’t enough & what to do instead. amirabarger.com/books/the-pr...
My first article as a Ph.D. candidate has been published in a peer-reviewed journal: “New Code Needed for New Conversations: A Critical Textual Analysis of the PRSA Code of Ethics and Practitioners’ Responsibility to the Public Good.” instituteforpr.org/prj-vol-18-i... #PR #PublicRelations
October 24, 2025 at 5:20 AM
My first article as a Ph.D. candidate has been published in a peer-reviewed journal: “New Code Needed for New Conversations: A Critical Textual Analysis of the PRSA Code of Ethics and Practitioners’ Responsibility to the Public Good.” instituteforpr.org/prj-vol-18-i... #PR #PublicRelations
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Writing in Good Company online this morning was a heartening start to the week.
To find an online academic co-writing option that works for you this fall, start with this list @allisonvandev.bsky.social and I collected: bridgecreekediting.com/a-call-to-ac...
To find an online academic co-writing option that works for you this fall, start with this list @allisonvandev.bsky.social and I collected: bridgecreekediting.com/a-call-to-ac...
A call to academic writing practice — September 2025 edition | Bridge Creek Editing
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September 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Writing in Good Company online this morning was a heartening start to the week.
To find an online academic co-writing option that works for you this fall, start with this list @allisonvandev.bsky.social and I collected: bridgecreekediting.com/a-call-to-ac...
To find an online academic co-writing option that works for you this fall, start with this list @allisonvandev.bsky.social and I collected: bridgecreekediting.com/a-call-to-ac...
FB memories are often superfluous, but sometimes, they show big things. I didn't know it, but receiving these textbooks as I prepared for the fall of the 2nd year of my professional strat comm MA was one. I knew I had questions that went past the strategies & tactics focus of my MA. #PR #StratComm
August 27, 2025 at 2:48 AM
FB memories are often superfluous, but sometimes, they show big things. I didn't know it, but receiving these textbooks as I prepared for the fall of the 2nd year of my professional strat comm MA was one. I knew I had questions that went past the strategies & tactics focus of my MA. #PR #StratComm
Are you a public relations or strategic communication professional with 5+ years of experience? I'm doing interviews to discuss language & professional responsibility. $15 giftcard available. Interested? Message or email me #PublicRelations #StrategicCommunication #PR #StratComm #CriticalPR
August 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Are you a public relations or strategic communication professional with 5+ years of experience? I'm doing interviews to discuss language & professional responsibility. $15 giftcard available. Interested? Message or email me #PublicRelations #StrategicCommunication #PR #StratComm #CriticalPR
For the summer, I am back at the University of Minnesota’s Global Program and Strategy Alliance making PDF forms accessible. Does anyone have suggestions for training videos? An I am in thinking this project is made harder because of Adobe being frustrating? #Accessibility #A11y
July 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
For the summer, I am back at the University of Minnesota’s Global Program and Strategy Alliance making PDF forms accessible. Does anyone have suggestions for training videos? An I am in thinking this project is made harder because of Adobe being frustrating? #Accessibility #A11y
Yesterday, I shared my dissertation plan with the Critical Language Awareness Collective convened by Dr. Shawna Shapiro. I hope more #PRProf will join me in considering PR ed beyond technical mastery, genre replication, & strategy maximization. #PublicRelations #StrategicCommunication #JPRE #PRProf
July 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Yesterday, I shared my dissertation plan with the Critical Language Awareness Collective convened by Dr. Shawna Shapiro. I hope more #PRProf will join me in considering PR ed beyond technical mastery, genre replication, & strategy maximization. #PublicRelations #StrategicCommunication #JPRE #PRProf
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How do you kidnap and deport millions of people? How do you meet a quota of 3,000 apprehensions a day?
Racial profiling and indiscriminate abductions. Nobody is safe:
#MAGAKidnappers
Racial profiling and indiscriminate abductions. Nobody is safe:
#MAGAKidnappers
June 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
How do you kidnap and deport millions of people? How do you meet a quota of 3,000 apprehensions a day?
Racial profiling and indiscriminate abductions. Nobody is safe:
#MAGAKidnappers
Racial profiling and indiscriminate abductions. Nobody is safe:
#MAGAKidnappers
To conclude year three at @uosojc.bsky.social, I successfully defended my PhD prospectus, “What’s right in what we write? Exploring the metalinguistic norms, language ideologies, and writing practices of the public relations industry.” #PublicRelations #GradLife
June 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
To conclude year three at @uosojc.bsky.social, I successfully defended my PhD prospectus, “What’s right in what we write? Exploring the metalinguistic norms, language ideologies, and writing practices of the public relations industry.” #PublicRelations #GradLife
Attention #PRProfs. How are you talking about #PR's role in supporting DEI with your students? It should be thought of as a question of professional responsibility and ethics.
Hosting a preview of my upcoming course, Navigating Anti-DEI Rhetoric: A Communications Crash Course to Avoid a Crash Out, tomorrow Wed April 2nd on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/events/navig...
Class starts Friday April 4th: www.kimclarkcommunications.com/offers/GaQcD...
Class starts Friday April 4th: www.kimclarkcommunications.com/offers/GaQcD...
April 3, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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“But we have laws!”
They don’t care
They don’t care
We're entering a dark period in US #accessibility.
The White House home page has a bunch of links with "aria-hidden" and "tabindex=-1".
This hides the links from assistive tech like screen readers & makes them unreachable with just a keyboard.
Critical #WCAG compliance errors! But who can sue?
The White House home page has a bunch of links with "aria-hidden" and "tabindex=-1".
This hides the links from assistive tech like screen readers & makes them unreachable with just a keyboard.
Critical #WCAG compliance errors! But who can sue?
January 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
“But we have laws!”
They don’t care
They don’t care
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Hi Friends! We are hiring for a remote Public Relations Specialist. Movement Media is the best workplace I've ever experienced and this will be a great job for someone with some solid communications / PR experience. Please share! www.linkedin.com/posts/moveme...
Movement Media on LinkedIn: Movement Media Public Relations Specialist
Movement Media is hiring for a remote Public Relations Specialist to join our dynamic team!
Please see the attached job announcement for more details, and…
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January 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Hi Friends! We are hiring for a remote Public Relations Specialist. Movement Media is the best workplace I've ever experienced and this will be a great job for someone with some solid communications / PR experience. Please share! www.linkedin.com/posts/moveme...
In @dukepress.bsky.social's Pedagogy, Chris Gallagher argued teachers should use ghostwriting to encourage students to develop Critical Language Awareness. #PRProfs, I'd argue that's most of what we teach. How can we encourage students to meet the challenge? doi.org/10.1215/1531...
“This Weird Thing I'm Discovering”: Toward a Critical Pedagogical Approach to Ghostwriting
Abstract. This article addresses a pervasive but undertheorized literacy practice: ghostwriting. Drawing on a five-year interview study with undergraduate students, I describe the many ghostwriting ta...
doi.org
January 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
In @dukepress.bsky.social's Pedagogy, Chris Gallagher argued teachers should use ghostwriting to encourage students to develop Critical Language Awareness. #PRProfs, I'd argue that's most of what we teach. How can we encourage students to meet the challenge? doi.org/10.1215/1531...
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Please stop saying this woman works in crisis PR. I work in crisis PR— I help people/organizations tell the truth even and especially when it is hard. I abide by the PRSA Code of Ethics and our professional values. My profession and her job are quite different. www.prsa.org/about/prsa-c...
December 22, 2024 at 1:48 PM
Please stop saying this woman works in crisis PR. I work in crisis PR— I help people/organizations tell the truth even and especially when it is hard. I abide by the PRSA Code of Ethics and our professional values. My profession and her job are quite different. www.prsa.org/about/prsa-c...
Winter Break goal: Now that I'm a 3rd year Ph.D. student who (in theory) has a better idea of my research, does anyone have suggestions for how to clean out my @zotero.org library of my road-not-traveled research? Particularly, identifying big files? #phdlife #phdchat #phdvoice #zotero
a cartoon of a lion and a meerkat with the words you gotta put your past behind ya on the bottom
Alt: Timon (the meerkat in the Lion King) is telling young Simba (the lion), "You gotta put your past behind ya."
media.tenor.com
December 22, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Winter Break goal: Now that I'm a 3rd year Ph.D. student who (in theory) has a better idea of my research, does anyone have suggestions for how to clean out my @zotero.org library of my road-not-traveled research? Particularly, identifying big files? #phdlife #phdchat #phdvoice #zotero
"The Conscious Style Guide neatly complements [existing style guides], because it doesn’t intend to compete with them. Instead, Yin recommends using a systemic, thoughtful approach to style questions in a time of rapidly evolving language and cultural change." - @andybechtel.bsky.social
Thank you, Andy Bechtel, for your tremendous review of #TheConsciousStyleGuide in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly! “An important, eye-opening book. Practitioners and scholars alike will want to add it to their reference stacks.” #JMCQ
✅ Read online now (access required)
✅ Read online now (access required)
December 19, 2024 at 3:59 AM
"The Conscious Style Guide neatly complements [existing style guides], because it doesn’t intend to compete with them. Instead, Yin recommends using a systemic, thoughtful approach to style questions in a time of rapidly evolving language and cultural change." - @andybechtel.bsky.social
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Kasey Bonifacio's 13 Days of Accessibility is a great way to dig into the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, which are international standards used to measure accessibility. Kasey's resource makes WCAG more digestible.
a11ycalendar.kaseybon.com
a11ycalendar.kaseybon.com
13 Days of Accessibility
Review the 13 WCAG 2.1 guidelines that web designers and developers can follow to create accessible websites.
a11ycalendar.kaseybon.com
December 15, 2024 at 3:37 AM
Kasey Bonifacio's 13 Days of Accessibility is a great way to dig into the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, which are international standards used to measure accessibility. Kasey's resource makes WCAG more digestible.
a11ycalendar.kaseybon.com
a11ycalendar.kaseybon.com
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go.bsky.app/GG4maF3
#PRprofs let me know if you’d like to be added, and tag your colleagues. (Also let me know if you wish to be removed).
#PRprofs let me know if you’d like to be added, and tag your colleagues. (Also let me know if you wish to be removed).
December 1, 2024 at 2:17 PM
go.bsky.app/GG4maF3
#PRprofs let me know if you’d like to be added, and tag your colleagues. (Also let me know if you wish to be removed).
#PRprofs let me know if you’d like to be added, and tag your colleagues. (Also let me know if you wish to be removed).
Painful? Yes.
Do we get to complain? Absolutely not.
We knew websites were supposed to be accessible the entire time, but we focused on aesthetics, saving $/time, and “works for me.”
We got a pass for too long. Accessibility should never have been a “we'll come back post-launch."
Do we get to complain? Absolutely not.
We knew websites were supposed to be accessible the entire time, but we focused on aesthetics, saving $/time, and “works for me.”
We got a pass for too long. Accessibility should never have been a “we'll come back post-launch."
Will read full article later, but this title sucks.
You know what’s actually painful? Inaccessibility. Yes! It is causes real, physical pain. And it’s distressing, causing more pain.
Making web pages accessible is NOT painful. Hire experts. We’re here.
www.chronicle.com/article/coll...
You know what’s actually painful? Inaccessibility. Yes! It is causes real, physical pain. And it’s distressing, causing more pain.
Making web pages accessible is NOT painful. Hire experts. We’re here.
www.chronicle.com/article/coll...
December 13, 2024 at 5:42 AM
Painful? Yes.
Do we get to complain? Absolutely not.
We knew websites were supposed to be accessible the entire time, but we focused on aesthetics, saving $/time, and “works for me.”
We got a pass for too long. Accessibility should never have been a “we'll come back post-launch."
Do we get to complain? Absolutely not.
We knew websites were supposed to be accessible the entire time, but we focused on aesthetics, saving $/time, and “works for me.”
We got a pass for too long. Accessibility should never have been a “we'll come back post-launch."
The captions are surprisingly good, but make sure to check them! I had it once pick a word that was the opposite of what we said.
YouTube uses automatic speech recognition to automatically generate captions for videos when they are uploaded. These might need some editing and tweaking before publishing, but it's possible to edit these captions directly in YouTube.
support.google.com/youtube/answ...
support.google.com/youtube/answ...
Edit or remove captions - YouTube Help
Edit captions You can manually change the text and timestamps of your captions or use caption editing software or services. Edit cap
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December 10, 2024 at 9:04 PM
The captions are surprisingly good, but make sure to check them! I had it once pick a word that was the opposite of what we said.
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Lots of new adds today on the #comms4good Starter Pack. Follow to bring the best folks doing communications at nonprofits and foundations (and our consultant friends) to your feed! And comment if you fit that vibe and would like to be added!
go.bsky.app/PxcuT5T
go.bsky.app/PxcuT5T
November 27, 2024 at 1:19 AM
Lots of new adds today on the #comms4good Starter Pack. Follow to bring the best folks doing communications at nonprofits and foundations (and our consultant friends) to your feed! And comment if you fit that vibe and would like to be added!
go.bsky.app/PxcuT5T
go.bsky.app/PxcuT5T
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here’s the #CriticalPR link go.bsky.app/ALfzHKL
November 20, 2024 at 1:32 AM
here’s the #CriticalPR link go.bsky.app/ALfzHKL