Canterbury / New York City / Port-au-Prince / Boston / London / San Diego / Manila / Kyoto / /
Company
Metro Manila / PayPal / Twitter / MySpace / The New York Times / Sina / SoftBank Mobile / KDDI / Google / YouTube / British Broadcasting Corporation / Ushahidi / /
Country
Kenya / Japan / Pakistan / Dominican Republic / United Kingdom / Philippines / Haiti / Chile / Libya / United States / Haiti and the Dominican Republic / US / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Natural Disaster / /
Facility
Kyoto University / /
IndustryTerm
conventional mass media / web portals / mobile web browser / software platform / online sources / public transportation / static web pages / online donations / food / energy / mobile web pages / social media / photo sharing site / quantitative online questionnaire survey / larger / mass media / social networking / Open Maps / social networks / web tools / Internet Non-users / moral support systems / collaborative Internet-based tools / online spreadsheets / online community / network-connected mobile devices / online questionnaire survey / social networking websites / mobile and web-based technologies / mobile web page / important tool / Google Maps / electricity / mobile Internet data / social media links / social network / web services / /
OperatingSystem
Android / /
Organization
Southern Command / US Coast Guard / US Federal Emergency Management Association / Short-Messaging Service / civil society / Kyoto University / Pentagon / the Philippines Red Cross / US State Department / Graduate School / United Nations / US military / /
Person
Volunteer / Facebook / Virginia Earthquake / Prince / BRETT D. M. PEARY / / /
Journal of Natural Disaster Science, Volume 34, Number 1, 2012, pp3-18 Utilization of Social Media in the East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami and its Effectiveness Brett D. M. PEARY* Rajib SHAW*