Prior studies show that both mass and social media have played an influential role after the Great East Japan Earthquake, in particular, media information can affect a person's perception of the disaster as well as their behavioural intention of post-disaster activities. However, currently the...

Generally, the mass media perform the following social functions: information function, agenda setting, control function and criticism of social structures and institutions, educational function and function of socialization and integration (Jurcic, 2017). Through the digital revolution the...