UNT Multi-Disciplinary Information Research Symposium (MIRS)

The Multi-Disciplinary Information Research Symposium (MIRS) is an annual symposium that showcases the work of scholars and practitioners researching information and its impact on people. The research presented is about a range of topics including information technology, cybersecurity, information organization, archival theory, library science, computer science, linguistics, data science and more. Learn more: https://mirs.unt.edu/

The 2022 MIRS Conference Included:

Keynote Speaker Professor Ina Fourie, Head of Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria, “Coping in times calling for resilience: Information behavior as a research lens.”

Faculty panel with Dr. Daniel Alemneh (Moderator), Dr. Suliman Hawamdeh, Dr. Brian O’Connor, and Dr. Shawne Miksa, “Scholarly Communications in Post- Pandemic Academia.”

Dissertation Lightning Talks Moderated by Dr. Jeonghyun Kim

Fariba Fard “Development of the big bridge data across the conterminous U.S. for deck condition prediction using machine learning algorithm.”

Malak Khader “Understanding the relationship between critical literacy, cultural literacy, and religious literacy for second-generation immigrants.”

Poster Sessions:

Ngoc Dao & Dr. Heejun Kim “Predicting the usefulness of Yelp Reviews.”

Mimi Byun “Metascience as science: Tracing the emerging field of inquiry.”

Caroline Moore “Lights, camera, appraisal: Appraising analog film and moving pictures.”

Mary Catherine Ellis “How do consumer health websites talk about autism?”

Amy Collinsworth “Exercising your cardiology knowledge: Does gender play a role in developing coronary artery disease?”

Millicent Njeri “Private club members perceived social and psychological benefits: Scale development and validation.”

Ajay Jayanth, Kapil Yadav, Zhuoli Xie, & Dr. Lingzi Hong ”Automatic classification of short posts for information reliability in a COVID-19 context.”

Farirai Delma Dube “The influence of organizational culture factors on knowledge sharing.”

Jenisha Napit “Importance of technology in information science.”

Paper Session 1: Moderator Irhamni

Deama Khader “Street art as ephemeral document: A call for research.”

Yingying Han, Roopesh Maganti, & Dr. Haihua Chen “The Long Journey Home”: A case study of learning Japanese American internment history using natural language processing

Millicent Njeri & Dr. Jihye Ellie Min “Revisiting the appropriate use of exploratory factor analysis in information science research.”

Brenda van Wyk “Exploring the value writing clinics in research competency development.”

James D Faulkner III “University special collections, archival appraisal, selection, collection policy.”

Paper Session 2: Moderator Lydia Oladapo

Mohammed Huraysi “Foreign news coverage in conservative and liberal U.S. newspapers: A case study of Saudi Arabia from 1932 to present.”

Manar Alsaid “Archivists in the age of misinformation: The challenges of preserving digital information and providing long term access.”

Lacy Molina “Digital archiving for long term use.”

Ziyad Alghamdi “Saudi and U.S. newspaper coverage of Saudi vision 2030 concerning women in online newspapers.”

Mohotarema Rashid & Irhamni Ali “Extracting data from federal agency funders to estimate costs and grant opportunities for legal corpus research.”