Note: Call for proposals is now closed.

Submissions for presentations, posters, and dissertation talks are being accepted for a one-day research symposium co-hosted by the University of North Texas College of Information and UNT ASIS&T Student Chapter to showcase the research efforts of information scholars and practitioners. The event will be inclusive of workshops, sessions for ongoing and completed papers, posters, and a competition for dissertation presentations. The symposium is being generously funded by the UNT College of Information (COI) and the Department of Information Science with no cost to the attendees or participants.

MIRS 2021 will be held online on April 10, 2021.

Scholars and practitioners at all levels are encouraged to submit their research, keeping in mind that the prompt is “Big Data, Information, and Society,” which is inclusive of, but not limited to, data science, information science, artificial intelligence, data analytics, data visualization, learning technologies, computer science, digital humanities, linguistics, geographical information systems, journalism, and sociology. Just a few examples of topics include:

• Issues in big data

• Ethical data use

• Open access vs appropriate access to information

• Social media regulation

• Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing

• Natural Language Understanding

• Information security

• Health informatics

• The impact of information and emerging technologies on society

• Data manipulation

• Digital divides

• Control of data

• Community informatics

• Archival representation and misrepresentation

• The surveillance state

• Any COVID-19 related research

• All other information-related topics

One of the primary goals of MIRS is to encourage and empower participants who are new to scholarly communication. Therefore, graduate and undergraduate students at all levels and early professionals are highly encouraged to submit their work.

Please email MaryBurke@my.unt.edu or MalakKhader@my.unt.edu with any questions.