Social Media, Information and Political Activism in Japan’s 3.11 Crisis　日本の３・１１危機における一般社会メディア、情報、政治運動 :: JapanFocus

Almost everything we know now, and especially what we knew of the quake and tsunami in the hours and even days after the events, was significantly shaped by social media. In fact, the generation of information and images occurred at such a fast pace that social media not only represented, but also directly mediated, our experience of the disaster more than in any other event to date.