Hostname: page-component-5cf477f64f-pw477 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-04-02T00:48:31.166Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Mind the Gap: 3.11 and the Information Vulnerable

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Abstract

After the 3.11 triple disaster, massive information flooded the media. However, a comprehensive picture of the information ecosystem regarding 3.11 is yet to emerge. This article presents a quantitative analysis of a large amount of information and discourses concerning 3.11. In addition to gaps in information about damage and danger, we found that the areas most affected by the triple disaster had a greater number of people lacking access to vital information. These people were not only left behind during the first weeks of the catastrophe, but also thereafter, in the agenda for reconstruction.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Authors 2014

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Shinbun, Asahi (2012). Purometeusu no wana: kenshō Fukushima genpatsu jiko no shinjitsu 2 (Prometheus trap: Verifying the true facts on the Fukushima nuclear accident 2), Gakken Publishing. プロメテウスの罠-検証福島原発事 故の真実 2、学研.Google Scholar
Batagelj, V., Mrvar, A. (1998). Pajek: A program for large network analysis. Connections, 21 (2), 4757.Google Scholar
Beck, Ulrich (1992). Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. New Delhi: Sage.Google Scholar
Braam, R.R., Moed, H.F., and Van Raan, A.F.J. (1991). Mapping of science by combined co-citation and word analysis. I. Structural Aspects. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 42 (4), 233251.3.0.CO;2-I>CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Callon, M., Courtial, J.-P., Turner, W.A., Bauin, S. (1983). From translations to problematic networks: An introduction to co-word analysis. Social Science Information, 22, 191235.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Callon, M., Courtial, J.-P., Laville, F. (1991). Coword analysis as a tool for describing the network of interactions between basic and technological research: The case of polymer chemistry. Scientometrics, 22 (1), 155205.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Entman, Robert M. (1993). 'Framing: Toward Clarification of a Fractured Paradigm, Journal of Communication 43/4: 5158.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Freeman, L.C. (1979). Centrality in social networks conceptual clarification. Social Networks, 1 (3), 215239.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nao平田直, Hirata, Kenji佐竹健治, Satake, Kimio目黒公郎, Meguro, Yōtarō, Hatamura畑村洋太郎 (2011). Kyodai jishin kyodai tsunami –Higashinihon daishinsai no kenshō 巨大地震・巨大津波-東日本大震災の検証 (Big earthquake, big tsunami: investigation on the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami) Asakurashoten朝倉書店.Google Scholar
Kamada, T., Kawai, S. (1989). An algorithm for drawing general undirected graphs. Information Processing Letters, 31 (1), 715.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Klein, Naomi (2007). The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism: Metropolitan Books.Google Scholar
Setsuko, Inoue いのうえせつこ (2008). Jishin wa hinkon ni osoikakaru -‘Hanshin Awaji daishinsai’ shisha 6437 nin no sakebi 地震は貧困に襲いかかる-「阪神・淡路大震災」死者6437人の叫び (The earthquake hits the poor: The cry of the 6,437 dead of the Hanshin-Awaji earthquake). Kadensha 花伝社.Google Scholar
Nobuhiko岩崎信彦, Iwasaki, Atsuko伊藤亜都子, Itō, Michiko大原径子, Ōhara, Tsuyoshi, Tokuda徳田剛 (1999). Gekijin hisai-chi ni okeru jūtaku saiken no genjō to kadai: Hanshin daishinsai 4-nen-me no fukkō kukaku seiri jigyō: Takatori Higashi chiku no jirei 激甚被災地における住宅再建の現状と課題: 阪神大震災4年目の復興区画整理事業: 鷹取東地区の事例 (The State and Problem of Housing Reconstruction in a Heavily Stricken Areas: The case study of Takatori-Higashi district in the 4th year from the Great Hanshin Earthquake), 神戸大学都市安全研究センター研究報告 (Report of Research Center for Urban Safety and Security Kobe University) 3, 313322.Google Scholar
Leydesdorff, L. (1997). Why words and cowords cannot map the development of the sciences. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 48 (5), 418427.3.0.CO;2-Y>CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Leydesdorff, L., Hellsten, I. (2005). Metaphors and diaphors in science communication: Mapping the case of ‘stem-cell research’. Science Communication, 27 (1), 6499.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Leydesdorff, L., Hellsten, I. (2006). Measuring the meaning of words in contexts: An automated analysis of controversies about ‘Monarch butterflies,’ ‘Frankenfoods,’ and ‘stem cells’. Scientometrics, 67 (2), 231258.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
MacCombs, Maxwell E., and Shaw, D.L. (1972). The Agenda-Setting Function of Mass Media. Public Opinion Quarterly 36 (2), 176187.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mullins, N., Snizek, W., and Oehler, W. K. (1988). The structural analysis of scientific paper, pp. 85101. In Van Raan, A. F. J. (Eds.), Handbook of Quantitative Studies of Science & Technology, Amsterdam: Elsevier.Google Scholar
Naikakufu 内閣府 (Cabinet Office) (2011). Heisei 23 nendo bōsai hakusho (White Paper on Disaster prevention) 平成23年度防災 白書』 <link>..>Google Scholar
Masaki, Nakamura et al. (2013). Posuto 3.11 no kagaku to seijigaku (Science and Politics after 3.11), Nakanishiya Press. 中村征樹 (編)『ポスト3.11の科学と政治』:ナカニシヤ出版。.Google Scholar
Salton, G., and Mcgill, M. J. (1983). Introduction to modern information retrieval. Auckland, etc., McGraw-Hill.Google Scholar
Scheufele, Dietram A. (1999). Framing as a Theory of Media Effects', International Communication Association 49: 103–22.Google Scholar
Stegmann, J. and Grohmann, G. (2003). Hypothesis generation guided by co-word clustering. Scientometrics, 56 (1), 111135.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Shinsai fukkō chōsa kenkyū iinkai震災復興調査研究委員会 (Research Committee on the reconstruction after the earthquake disaster) (1996). Hanshin Awaji daishinsai fukkōshi 阪神・淡路大震災復興誌第1巻 (Journal of the earthquake of Hanshin-Awaji. Vol. 1), 21st Century Hyogo Creative Association 21 世紀ひょうご創造協会.Google Scholar
Sōmu-shō総務省 (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) 2010. Heisei 22 nendo Tsūshin riyō dōkō chōsa 平成22年度通信利用動向調査 (Annual report 2010 on the trends of information and communication use). <link>..>Google Scholar
Masato田中正人, Tanaka, Yoshiaki, Shiozaki塩崎賢明 (2008). Yōto konzai chiku no fukkō kukaku seiri jigyō ni okeru tenshutsu jittai to sono haikei - Kōbe-shi o Suga nishi chiku ni okeru kēsusutadi用途混在地区の復興区画整理事業における転出実態とその背景‐神戸市御菅西地区におけるケーススタディ (The Realities and Background of the Moving-out of Residents after the Land Readjustment Project in a Mixed Use District: Case of Misuga-nishi district, Kobe city). Journal of architecture, planning and environmental engineering 日本建築学会計画系論文集, 73 (629): 1529–36.Google Scholar
Mikihito田中幹人, Tanaka, Ryuma標葉隆馬, Shineha, Kiichirō, Maruyama丸山紀一朗s (2012). Saigai jakusha to jōhō jakusha:3 11 Ato, nani ga misugosa reta no ka 災害弱者と情報弱者: 3・11後、何が見過ごされたのか (The Disaster Vulnerable and the Information Vulnerable: What was overlooked after 3.11?). Chikuma Shobō筑摩書房.Google Scholar
Togo, Tsukahara塚原東吾 (2011). Saigai shihon shugi no hatsudō: nido hakai sareta Kōbe kara nani o manabu no ka? 災害資本主義の発動-二度破壊された神戸から何を学ぶのか (Variation on disaster capitalism: What can we learn from the second destruction of Kobe?) Gendai shisō現代思想s 39 (7): 202–11.Google Scholar
Masaki, Urano 浦野正樹 (2007). Saigai shakaigaku no kiro: saigai taiō no gōri-teki seigyo to chiiki no seijakusei no keigen 災害社会学の岐路-災害対応の合理的制御と地域の脆弱性の軽減 (The crossroads of disaster sociology: Reducing the regional vulnerabilities and a reasonable control of disaster response), pp. 3541, in Introduction to disaster sociology 災害社会学入門, edited by Oyane Atsushi 大矢根淳, Urano Masaki浦野正樹, Tanaka Atsushi 田中淳, Hiroaki Yoshii 吉井博明. Kōbundō 弘文堂.Google Scholar
Voakes, Paul S., Kapfer, Jack, Kurpius, David and Chern, David Shano-yeon (1996). Diversity in the news: A conceptual and methodological framework, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 73 (Autumn): 582593.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ben, Wisner, Piers, Blaikie, Terry, Cannon, Ian, Davis (2003). At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters (Second Edition): Routledge.Google Scholar
Hiroaki, Yoshii 吉井博明 (2007). Saigai e no shakai-teki taiō no rekishi 災害への社会的対応の歴史 (The history of social responses to disaster) pp. 5766, in Saigai shakaigaku nyūmon 災害社会学入門 (Introduction to disaster sociology), edited by Oyane Atsushi 大矢根淳, Urano Masaki 浦野正樹, Tanaka Atsushi 田中淳, Hiroaki Yoshii 吉井博明. Kōbundō 弘文堂.Google Scholar