Multi-level functionality of social media in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake

Disasters

Volumn 38, Issue SUPPL2, 2014, Pages

  Jung, Joo Young ^a   Moro, Munehito ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disaster; Earthquake; Japan; Multi level; Social media; Social networking site; Tsunami; Twitter

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; NETWORKING; SOCIAL NETWORK; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TSUNAMI;

JAPAN;

ARTICLE; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SEEKING; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; JAPAN; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; MULTI-LEVEL; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE; TSUNAMI; TWITTER; UTILIZATION REVIEW; YOUNG ADULT;

DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; JAPAN; MULTI-LEVEL; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE; TSUNAMI; TWITTER;

COMMUNICATION; DISASTER PLANNING; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JAPAN; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MALE; MASS MEDIA; ORGANIZATIONS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TSUNAMIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901982728     PISSN: 03613666     EISSN: 14677717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/disa.12071     Document Type: Article

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