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Education
B.A., 1985, Southwest State University
M.S., 1986, Southern Illinois University
Ph.D., 1991, University of Minnesota
Teaching COMM 360: Human Communication Theory
COMM 451: Communication in Organizations
COMM 601: Intro. to Communication Studies
Research Selected recent papers and publications:
Josephson, S., & Holmes, M.E. (in press).
Attention to repeated images on the World Wide Web: Another look at scanpath theory. Accepted for publication in Behavior Research Methods, Instruments and Computers.
Bergstrom, M.J., & Holmes, M.E. (in press). Organizational communication and aging: Age-related processes in organizations. In J. Nussbaum and J. Coupland (Eds.),
The handbook of communication and aging research.
Josephson, S., & Holmes, M.E. (2002).
Visual attention to repeated Internet images: Testing the scanpath theory on the World Wide Web. Proceedings of the 2002 meeting of the ACM SIGGRAPH Eye Tracking Research and Application Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Poole, M.S., Van de Ven, A.H., Dooley, K., & Holmes, M.E. (2000).
Organizational change and innovation processes: Theory and methods for research. New York: Oxford University Press. (Awarded Best Book of 2000-2001 by the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association.)
Bergstrom, M.J., & Holmes, M.E. (2000). Lay theories of successful aging after the death of a spouse: A textual network analysis of bereavement advice.
Health Communication, 12, 377-406.
Holmes, M.E. (2000, November).
Academia and advertising: A partnership engaged in visual communication research. Roundtable discussion presented at the 2000 Annual Conference of the National Communication Association, Seattle, Washington.
Holmes, M.E., & Bergstrom, M. (1999, February).
Interaction analysis: A conceptual primer. Presented at the annual conference of the Western States Communication Association, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Selected Service
- Chair, BSU Department of Communication Studies
- Member of the BSU Information Technology Environmental Scanning Committee, 2003-2004.
- Coordinator, iCommunication undergraduate minor/certificate program, Spring 2003.
- Member of the Steering Committee for BSU Information Technology Strategic Planning, 2002.
- Chair, Subcommittee on Information, Data and Media, for BSU Information Technology Strategic Planning, 2002.
- Member of the BSU Ball Communications Building Expansion Planning Commmittee, 2001-2002.
- Member of the BSU Information Technology Advisory Committee, 2001-2003.
- Member of the iCommunication curriculum planning oversight committee, 2001-2003.
- Member of the iCommunication undergraduate curriculum planning committee, 2001-2003.
- Chair of the iCommunication undergraduate course development committee, 2003.
- Member of the iCommunication digital media journal planning committee, 2002-2003.
Personal Interests Interests include organizational communication and communication technology, information visualization in workgroup settings, and communication and aging in organizations.