Studies find that in time of crisis such as natural disasters, in most cases, people in crowds are capable to remain calm and to help each other. Referred as 'collective resilience', this capability can increase a society's capacity to withstand crises and disasters. Therefore, for both academia...

This study examines factors that affect disaster evacuees' usage of different media in a multi-channel media environment, which means that people can receive similar content from multiple media channels. Using the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake in Japan as the case study, we find that that...

Followingthe Great East Japan Earthquake, information and communications technology (ICT) is expected to play an important role in future pioneeringdisaster prevention programs and post-disaster reconstruction. The increase insmartphone users allows big data to be accumulated from such diverse...

The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of media form on audiences' perceived image of the television news media. Specifically, it compares the perceived sense of presence between two different media forms - television and smartphone, and examines their effects on the perceived brand...

This paper is the first part of a two-part study that aims to examine the relationship between collective resilience and ICT and media information. Previous studies find that in disaster and emergency situations, most people are capable to remain coherent and to offer mutual help. Referred as...

This study quantitatively examines how the term "fake news" is being portrayed by the Japanese news media using semantic network analysis. It uses newspapers as the representative as they are still one of the most influential news media in Japan. The data set consists of 624 newspaper articles...

This paper aims to analyze how and why Japan's new coronavirus contact tracking and tracing application has not been supported by people and in effect been ineffective in preventing the spread of infection of COVID-19. Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan released COCOA on June 17,...