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Fukushima, Facebook and Feeds: Informing the Public in a Digital Era

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  • Pierpoint, Lara

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The now-ubiquitous presence of the Internet and social media like Twitter, Facebook, and blogs enabled misinformation about the nuclear disaster at Fukushima to spread at the speed of electricity. It also allowed the public rapid access to large amounts of knowledge from unconventional classes of experts, and a unique opportunity to learn about nuclear power. The benefits of online information dissemination greatly outweigh the costs associated with Internet cacophony.

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  • Pierpoint, Lara, 2011. "Fukushima, Facebook and Feeds: Informing the Public in a Digital Era," The Electricity Journal, Elsevier, vol. 24(6), pages 53-58, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jelect:v:24:y:2011:i:6:p:53-58
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    1. Chaturvedi, Ankur & Simha, Anoop & Wang, Zhen, 2015. "ICT infrastructure and social media tools usage in disaster/crisis management," 2015 Regional ITS Conference, Los Angeles 2015 146314, International Telecommunications Society (ITS).
    2. Bart Vyncke & Tanja Perko & Baldwin Van Gorp, 2017. "Information Sources as Explanatory Variables for the Belgian Health‐Related Risk Perception of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident," Risk Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 37(3), pages 570-582, March.

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