I've been really happy with the positive responses I've received when asking public relations and strategic communications professionals to do interviews for my dissertation research. If you want to join them, let me know. #Comms4Good bsky.app/profile/boon...

1 thing today's world is showing is that the words/stories/narratives we put into the world matter. We must care as much about the people we are communicating to and about as the goals of our organizations. We must be responsible communicators—rather than merely strategic. #CritPR

Now, I'm a PhD candidate at @uosojc.bsky.social who is seeking out #PublicRelations pros for interviews discussing how they think about language and professional responsibility. In doing so, I hope to show ways practitioners can exercise agency to create more responsible communications and orgs.

The K-12 teachers who were my classmates told me just how much they disliked working with their schools' comm staffers, and, in doing so, they made me realize I was communicating issues, topics, stories that had real effects on real people—not just things that I could master communicating.

So I enrolled in "Literacy & Race in the Schools," a class with K-12 teachers that I assumed would let me gain some knowledge to write a how-to for eliminating bias/misteps in #StrategicCommunication. I'd never guess that the class would change my idea of professional responsibility. #CritPR

Oo! Thank you. I think I figured it out—other than a few items that refuse to be tagged no matter how many times I try.

Thank you!

By the way, this also a good time to remind #PRProfs that we need to add accessibility to the curriculum. It never should have been, but it is officially not optional/extra work now. #PublicRelations

For more on the CLA Collective and its summer salons, see the following. #PRProfs (and others), let me know if you’d be interested in a subgroup focused on PR or professional/workplace writing. As someone who tried, I’d love talk balance w/ being hired by a client. cla.middcreate.net/news-and-eve...

As a practitioner who worked for 15 years before starting my PhD, I have been genuinely perplexed by the lack of attention to language in the mass communications fueled. #PR #CritPR

Dr. Lee Edwards wrote about the same questions I’ve encountered in exploring language. How can we challenge students and practitioners to think more deeply about the words, language, rhetoric, and stories they put into the world? #PRProfs #CritPR

Thank you!

I’d also love to connect with any other scholars interested in PR’s language use and writing practices. I have been confused by the lack of scholarship so am looking sociolinguistics and Tech & Pro Comm to import ideas. We use words but do we question them? #PRProfs #CriticalPR

This means I am officially a PhD candidate and ABD (all-but-dissertation). I am also looking forward to connecting with other communicators to learn about how we use and think about language.