Good grief: the role of social mobile media in the 3.11 earthquake disaster in Japan

Digital Creativity

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 187-199

  Hjorth, Larissa ^a   Kim, Kyoung Hwa Yonnie ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

affective culture; crisis; grief; intimacy; Japan; mobile media; social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862960727     PISSN: 14626268     EISSN: 17443806     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14626268.2011.604640     Document Type: Article

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