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Roles of Social Media at the Time of Major Disasters Observed in the Great East Japan Earthquake : Twitter as an Example

Yumi Yoshitsugu
- 01 Jul 2011 - 
- Vol. 61, Iss: 7, pp 16-23
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This article is published in The NHK monthly report on broadcast research.The article was published on 2011-07-01 and is currently open access. It has received 10 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social media.

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Mass and social media corpus analysis after the 2011 great east Japan earthquake

TL;DR: The analysis of mass media and social media as used for disaster management looked at the differences among multiple sub-corpuses to find relatively unique keywords based on chronologies, geographic locations, or media types.

Had Information Seeking Been Changed After 3.11 Earthquake of Japan?: In View of Devices, Media Attitudes and SNS

TL;DR: This article analyzed the changes that the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11 2011 brought on information devices, information sources, and satisfaction and credibility toward the information source one year after the events took place and found that information behavior was not affected by the situations even though traditional communication infrastructure such as telephones did not function due to the earthquake and surging demand for evacuation information.
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Applying a tendency to be well retweeted to false information detection

TL;DR: A tendency of tweets to be well retweeted is predicted and the effect of the tendency when it is used in false information detection empirically is examined.
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A Tourism Information Service for Safety During School Trips

TL;DR: A tourism information service for student school trips is proposed that provides the current position of students and a history of movement during their trips for typical situations and helps students to move quickly to evacuation areas in the event of a disaster.
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