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TMIM! I've never worked with it; but when colleagues Dr. Aimee Miller-Ott and Dr. Lynne Kelly asked to to collaborate on a project they were working on with the theory of motivated information management, I leapt at the chance to work with these two scholars. What we found was that the TMIM is generally good at understanding and explaining how parents manage their uncertainty about their children's' use of the myriad 'new' media increasingly available to them.
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June, 2026 ICA26 |
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The highlight of each academic year is getting to attend the annual meeting of the International Communication Association. This year ICA is held in Cape Town; and I'm looking forward to seeing a collaboration with Dr. Alex Hinck presented, work with some brilliant upcoming scholars at the CAT/MC Doctoral Consortium, and the chance to see so many international friends and colleagues on our fifth continent together.
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We're used to doing something else while talking on the phone; but what about multitasking while on a Zoom call? New research by Tina Edema, Matt Merkling, Gabriela Gomes, Alina Niftulaeva, myself, and Dr. Aimee Miller-Ott applies the concept of crosstalk to understand what happens when people (A) focus on their interactant, (B) are distracted, and (C) bring their interactant in on that distraction while engaging in synchronous videoconferencing. Open access article, so everyone can read!.
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On the heels of the 25th ACM Conference on Intelligent Virtual Machines (IVA25), new NSF-funded work by Dr. Jaime Banks, Jianghui Li, Zhixin Li, and myself is now available as part of the published confernece proceedings. Scraping multiple subreddits on machine companions and parners, and using LLM to assist in identifying themes, we considered how people talk about the nature of their connection to their chat agent in their own words.
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A Little
About Caleb |
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Born at an early age just outside Flint, Michigan, Caleb T. Carr is
a Professor of Communication,
and sometimes refers to himself in the third person. His research
primarily explores computer-mediated communication as it converges organizational and interpersonal
phenomena, decision making and the development and presentation
of identity online; he also cares about your interests.
In addition to scholarly pursuits, he has performed in London’s
West
End, water skied with alligators, and yodeled in the Alps.
His career path has allowed him to pursue his passions of
research, teaching, and skiing;
though he sometimes restructures those priorities. He takes
his cheesesteaks
“with.”
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A Little More About
Caleb's Research |
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Although he has had training in qualitative
analysis and rhetorical criticism, Caleb is epistemologically
a quantitative researcher, who typically uses
experiments and surveys to answer research questions.
His research focuses on how individuals and organizations
are blurring the line between personal and professional
through technology. As effective lenses through
which to explore these issues, Caleb's research
has often used online
discussions and group decision tasks, the
popular online multiplayer game World
of Warcraft, and online communities in his
experiments. In survey research, interesting data
is often authored from human resource practitioners
and managers in organizations.
Curriculum
Vitae
Word (*.doc) Format
Adobe (*.pdf) Format
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Yet More About Caleb's
Teaching |
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Though an avid and involved researcher, Caleb
also enjoys teaching, particularly the opportunity
to take material from the lab straight into the
classroom to keep students abreast of the latest
developments in their discipline. Caleb has taught
many courses in several departments to an equally
diverse array of students. With teaching experience
in Business, Communication, and Telecommunication,
he has taught to both traditional (i.e., undergraduates
living on-campus) and non-traditional (i.e., returning,
older, and telecommuter) students in both on-ground
and online courses.
Current
Schedule
COM227: Communication in Organizations and Professional Settings
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