Social media use and goals after the Great East Japan Earthquake

Jung, Joo-Young

doi:10.5210/fm.v17i8.4071

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“…Based on network analysis of over 300 million tweets after the 2011 Japan earthquake, Toriumi et al [60] found an abrupt increase in degree distribution of information by Twitter directly after the earthquake. Moreover, based on media system dependency theory, Jung [61] surveyed Japanese university students after the Fukushima accident. This study showed that the use and type of social media influenced people's attitude toward the Fukushima accident.…”

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Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident on Belief in Rumors: The Role of Risk Perception and Communication

Kim

2017

Sustainability

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Rumors about nuclear power energy and its risks in terms of technology are common. However, these rumors are sometimes exaggerated and not true. Our research question is what factors and variables have influence the rumors related to the Fukushima nuclear accident. We analyzed data collected through social survey (n = 1572). To measure the dependent variable, we asked respondents whether rumors related to the Fukushima nuclear accident were true or false, and the degree to which they trusted such rumors. We measured three factors in determining belief in rumors: psychometric paradigm, communication, and risk perception. We then analyzed the direct impact of these three factors on belief in rumors and the indirect moderating effect of perceived risk of the Fukushima nuclear accident on the relationship between psychometric factors and belief in rumors. Results show that in the communication factors, source credibility decreases belief in rumors whereas usefulness of information and receiver's ability increase it. All the psychometric variables have significant impacts on belief in rumors. Perceived benefit, trust, and knowledge decrease belief in rumors, and perceived risk and stigma increase it. Finally, the perceived risk of Fukushima accident plays a role of moderators between psychometric paradigm and belief in rumors.

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Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident on Belief in Rumors: The Role of Risk Perception and Communication

Kim

2017

Sustainability

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“…Alarming information was also proliferating in Twitter (Li et al, 2014). People did not fully understand what had happened or what impact it would have for them personally (Jung, 2012). Many researchers concluded that the news of the meltdown had a devastating impact (Li et al, 2014;Ng and Lean, 2012;Pierpoint, 2011;Utz et al, 2013), generating widespread fear among the public in the absence of accurate authorized information.…”

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“…This had an impact, in particular, on TEPCO's Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant. During the earthquake, landlines and mobiles were out of operation (Jung 2012), leaving social media the least congested channel of communication. Therefore, social media interactions were frequent.…”

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“…For example, by the end of March attention began to shift to issues related to the response to the crisis and the implications of the crisis for food safety (Wang et al, 2013), while the future of nuclear energy was mostly debated later on, in April 2011 (Jung 2012). In addition, we checked both the government's and TEPCO's accounts.…”

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“…People turned to other sources, such as their networks of friends and the media (Robertson and Pengilley, 2012). Many local news media set up social media accounts to broadcast information (Jung, 2012), and a YouTube video in which a Japanese nuclear expert who criticized the inaccuracy of the available information went viral (Ng and Lean, 2012).…”

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Social media use and goals after the Great East Japan Earthquake

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Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident on Belief in Rumors: The Role of Risk Perception and Communication

Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident on Belief in Rumors: The Role of Risk Perception and Communication

Decomposing issue patterns in crisis communication: the case of the lost airliner

A Preliminary Study on User’s Decision Making towards Retweet Messages

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