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Conversational Use of Photographic Images on Facebook: Modeling Visual Thinking on Social Media

Modeling the "thick description" of photographs began at the intersection of personal and institutional descriptions. Comparing institutional descriptions of particular photos that were also used in personal online conversations was the initial phase. Analyzing conversations that started with a photographic image from the collection of the Library of Congress (LC) or the collection of the Manchester Historic Association (MHA) provided insights into how cultural heritage institutions could enr… more

Date: May 2016

Creator: Albannai, Talal N.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Information Structures in Notated Music: Statistical Explorations of Composers' Performance Marks in Solo Piano Scores

Written notation has a long history in many musical traditions and has been particularly important in the composition and performance of Western art music. This study adopted the conceptual view that a musical score consists of two coordinated but separate communication channels: the musical text and a collection of composer-selected performance marks that serve as an interpretive gloss on that text. Structurally, these channels are defined by largely disjoint vocabularies of symbols and words.… more

Date: May 2016

Creator: Buchanan, J. Paul

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Impetuses for First, Second, and Third Year Law Student Information Seeking Behavior, and Perception of Common Knowledge and Citation

This dissertation examined how previous information literacy training, law student gender, age, and previously obtained education affects first, second, and third year law students selection of information sources, their understanding of common knowledge, and their decision of whether or not to give attribution to these sources. To examine these factors, this study implemented a paradigm called the principle of least effort that contended humans in general tended to complete the least amount of… more

Date: May 2016

Creator: Helge, Kris

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Understanding the Information Seeking of Pre-Kindergarten Students: An Ethnographic Exploration of Their Seeking Behaviors in a Preschool Setting

Although there has been research conducted in the area of information seeking behavior in children, the research focusing on young children, more specifically on pre-kindergarten students, is almost nonexistent. Children at this age are in the preoperational developmental stage. They tend to display curiosity about the world around them, and use other people as a means to gain the information they are seeking. Due to the insistence from President Obama to implement pre-kindergarten programs … more

Date: August 2016

Creator: Stewart, Sarah Nykole

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Effect of Makerspace Professional Development Activities on Elementary and Middle School Educator Perceptions of Integrating Technologies with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)

This study investigated a Makerspace professional development program, the Makers' Guild, provided to teachers within north Texas over the course of a semester. The research employed a constructionist approach delivered via 2D and 3D technologies during STEM instructional activities within a creative space. Participants reported statistically significant increases in self-reported competence in technology integration, confidence levels toward integrating World Wide Web, Emerging Technologies fo… more

Date: December 2016

Creator: Miller, Jennifer R

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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The Effects of Student-Perceived Instructor Demotivating Behaviors on Doctoral Students' Information Seeking Behaviors

In their studies on student motivation in th4e 1990s, Gorham & Christophel and Christophel & Gorham found that students perceived their own demotivation to be caused by instructor behaviors. While there are studies that explore the topic of student demotivation and other studies that illustrate the great influence instructors have on student information seeking behaviors, research focusing on the connection between these two concepts is almost nonexistent. Using Gorham & Christophel's concept o… more

Date: December 2016

Creator: Cantu, Brenda Ann

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Building an Understanding of International Service Learning in Librarianship

From the very beginning, library education has been a mixture of theory and practice. Dewey required apprenticeships to be part of the first library school at the University of Chicago as a method to indoctrinate new professional. Today, acculturation is incorporated into the professional education through a large variety of experiential learning techniques, including internships, practicum, field work, and service learning projects, all of which are designed to develop some level of profession… more

Date: December 2016

Creator: Walczyk, Christine

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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A Validation Study of the Triple E Rubric for Lesson Design: A Measurement Tool for Technology Use in the Classroom

This validation study examined the Triple E Rubric for Lesson Design as a measurement tool to test the effectiveness of a lesson when using technology to support learning goals. This study also measured the content and concurrent validity as well as reliability of the Triple E Rubric developed by Liz Kolb.

Date: May 2019

Creator: Schatzke, Sheila Erin

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Developing a Soil Moisture-Based Irrigation Scheduling Tool (SMIST) Using Web-GIS Technology

Software as a service (SaaS) is a primary working pattern and a significant application model for next generation Internet application. Web GIS services are the new generation of the Software as a service that can provide the hosted spatial data and GIS functionalities to the practical customized applications. This study focused on developing a webGIS based application, Soil Moisture-Based Irrigation Scheduling Tool (SMIST), for predicting soil moisture in the next seven days using the soil moi… more

Date: May 2018

Creator: Nikfal, Mohammadreza

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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The Correlation between Information Literacy and Critical Thinking of College Students: An Exploratory Study

This exploratory, mixed-methods study investigated the relationship between information literacy and critical thinking. The research question guiding the first portion of the study was: How do information literacy and critical thinking relate in undergraduate students conducting academic research? Using two standardized assessments, the study assessed the information literacy and critical thinking skills of a small population of college students from a private, university in Texas. The correlat… more

Date: May 2018

Creator: McMullin, Shelly Lynne

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Understanding the Relationship between Critical Literacy, Cultural Literacy, and Religious Literacy for Second-Generation Immigrants

This study explores information seeking behavior of second-generation Muslim immigrants utilizing factors such as critical, cultural, and religious literacy skills. The study examined the second-generation immigrants' ability to balance their parents' and grandparents' native culture and traditions with the culture and traditions of their country. The interview questions were designed using the cognitive authority theory and the figured worlds theory that provides an explanation for the mentali… more

Date: August 2022

Creator: Khader, Malak M

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

Weight Initialization for Convolutional Neural Networks Using Unsupervised Machine Learning

The goal of this work is to improve the robustness and generalization of deep learning models, using a similar approach to the unsupervised "innate learning" strategy in visual development. A series of research studies are presented to demonstrate how an unsupervised machine learning efficient coding approach can create filters similar to the receptive fields of the primary visual cortex (V1) in the brain, and these filters are capable of pretraining convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to enab… more

Date: August 2022

Creator: Behpour, Sahar

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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The Influence of Visual Sources of Nutrition-Oriented Information on Young Adults' Dieting Efforts

The goal of this study was to investigate visual sources of nutrition information relied upon by young adults, specifically college-aged students between 18-30, as this is an under-represented population within current academic literature. A sample of more than 700 18- to 30-year-old college students were surveyed regarding their use of nutrition-driven information, with specific questions regarding the participants' awareness and use of the Food and Drug Administration's standardized nutrition… more

Date: December 2018

Creator: Stark, Hillary Lynn

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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A Text Analysis of Data Science Career Opportunities and U.S. iSchool Curriculum

Data science employment opportunities of varied complexity and environment are in growing demand across the globe. Data science as a discipline potentially offers a wealth of jobs to prospective employees, while traditional information science-based roles continue to decrease as budgets get cut across the U.S. Since data is related closely to information historically, this research will explore the education of U.S. iSchool professionals and compare it to traditional data science roles being ad… more

Date: December 2018

Creator: Durr, Angel Krystina

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

Exposure to Trauma and Its Effect on Information-Seeking Behaviors and Decision-Making Processes

This dissertation examines the impact of trauma on information-seeking behaviors and decision-making processes. Essay 1 includes a qualitative analysis of the transcripts obtained from interviews with four military service members diagnosed with PTSD. The results showed that 75% of this small sample population exhibited addictive behavior that was presented in their information behaviors. All four members indicated that the excessive extent to which they seek information is related to the perce… more

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Date: July 2023

Creator: Fantasia, Anthony Thomas

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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An Examination of the Metaverse Technology Acceptance Model in Tourism

The traditional definition of tourism has been transformed by significant advancements in communication and information technology. The concept of Metaverse, derived from the words "meta" (meaning beyond) and "verse" (meaning universe), has redefined how people experience travel. This innovative concept combines virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence to create virtually augmented spaces. However, the tourism industry should clarify and narrow down the definition of Meta… more

Date: July 2023

Creator: Lee, Sangyung

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

Countering Hate Speech: Modeling User-Generated Web Content Using Natural Language Processing

Social media is considered a particularly conducive arena for hate speech. Counter speech, which is a "direct response that counters hate speech" is a remedy to address hate speech. Unlike content moderation, counter speech does not interfere with the principle of free and open public spaces for debate. This dissertation focuses on the (a) automatic detection and (b) analyses of the effectiveness of counter speech and its fine-grained strategies in user-generated web content. The first goal is … more

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Date: July 2023

Creator: Yu, Xinchen

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

Transdisciplinary Information Flow and Key Challenges of Effective Knowledge Transfer between Expert and Novice

When the need arises to transmute complex and theoretical ideas into practice or communicate them to the uninitiated, there often exists a gap in the levels of understanding between the parties involved. This research examined knowledge transfer between practitioners within the information technology (IT) domain of interest by asking the following questions: what is the relationship between knowledge spaces for IT experts and novices; and what factors impact knowledge transfer among knowledge s… more

Date: May 2023

Creator: Upchurch, Eric Conrad

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Understanding Sociotechnical Factors Impacting Cybersecurity Controls on Mobile Devices and Smartphones at the Individual Level

Technological advances such as mobile technology, big data, and machine learning allow businesses to associate advertisements with consumer behaviors to maximize sales. Thus, information about consumer behavior became the central resource of businesses. Recent discussions and concerns about the emerging economic order centered around capturing consumers' data suggest that more research efforts be allocated to address new challenges in different domains, such as health, education, smart cities, … more

Date: May 2023

Creator: Gadi, Abdullah Mohamed Y.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Designing Archival Collections to Support Language Revitalization: Case Study of the Boro Language Resource

Indigenous communities around the world are losing their languages at accelerating rates to the effects of the climate crisis and global capitalism. To preserve samples of these languages facing endangerment and extinction, samples of language use (e.g., audio-video recordings, photographs, textual transcriptions, translations, and analyses) are created and stored in language archives: repositories intended to provide long-term preservation of and access to language materials. In recent years, … more

Date: May 2023

Creator: Burke, Mary

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

Information-Seeking Behaviors of Rural Community-Based Hospice Social Workers during a Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities

When it comes to hospice care, patients and their families residing in rural counties need competent rural community-based hospice social workers on their team. The study of information seeking behaviors of rural community-based hospice social workers during the global COVID-19 pandemic is significant as there is a need to fill gaps regarding how this specific medical discipline performs their job responsibilities when duties become more complicated due to evolving infection control protocols, … more

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Date: May 2023

Creator: Alvarado, Angela

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Relevance Criteria when Searching and Evaluating Online Video for Informational Use

Relevance is a core concept in the field of Information Science and a common term in everyday vernacular that generally refers to the usefulness of information. However, relevance has not been sufficiently or consistently defined or explored in the information science literature. Relevance criteria are the factors that information users employ when determining whether information they encounter is relevant. Identifying relevance criteria is a crucial step to understanding relevance. Relevance c… more

Date: May 2023

Creator: Dewitt-Miller, Erin

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusive Behaviors of School Librarians: Perceptions during Times of Crisis

School librarians create an atmosphere where learners feel empowered. Moreover, school library programming should support diversity, equity, and inclusive learning opportunities to facilitate student success. Thus, school librarians are expected to model and advocate for equitable learning spaces while considering the universal design for learning approach to improving accessibility, utilization, and relevance for all library patrons. Although it has been established that school library standar… more

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Date: May 2023

Creator: Gill, Diane

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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From the Outside In: A Multivariate Correlational Analysis of Effectiveness in Communities of Practice

Online communities of practice (CoPs) provide social spaces for people to connect, learn, and engage with one another around shared interests and passions. CoPs are innovatively employed within industry and education for their inherent knowledge management characteristics and as a means of improving professional practice. Measuring the success of a CoP is a challenge researchers are examining through various strategies. Recent literature supports measuring community effectiveness through the … more

Date: August 2016

Creator: Bomar, Shannon Hulbert

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries