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Yasumoto Lab
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A lab that studies information and communication during disasters through data and fieldwork.
AboutAbout the lab
How disaster information reaches people and how they take it in
The Yasumoto Lab studies information and communication related to disasters.
It is particularly interested in media, especially video.
Using social surveys such as questionnaires, the lab examines, based on data, how people received information, made decisions, and took action during disasters.
The lab also visits disaster-affected areas and other sites, and through exchanges with local governments and media professionals, carefully studies how information is produced and communicated.
Key terms
- Social survey
- A method of collecting people's views and behaviors through questionnaires, interviews, and similar means to reveal the state of society through data
- Popular culture
- Mass culture enjoyed by many people in daily life, such as films, manga, and television programs
- Disaster archive
- A collection of records, footage, testimonies, and other materials about past disasters, preserved so that they can be viewed later
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies information and communication related to disasters, focusing on media, especially video. Its work ranges from empirical research using social surveys to studies of disaster-related popular culture and archives.
*Illustrative imagePost-Disaster Evidence-Based Research
The lab empirically examines what happened in past disasters and how people responded, using social surveys such as questionnaires. It visits disaster-affected sites and, through exchanges with local governments and media, also studies how information is produced and how it reaches people.
*Illustrative imageHow Disaster Information Affects People's Minds and Behavior
Disaster preparedness information is not enough if it is only scientifically accurate; it must also help reduce human casualties. The lab analyzes how disaster information affects people's perceptions, attitudes, and behavior, and explores more effective ways of communicating.
*Illustrative imageDisasters and Popular Culture
The lab views how people have understood, talked about, and remembered disasters as a form of communication within society. Through research on popular culture, it examines how disasters have been positioned and shared in media and culture.
*Illustrative imageResearch on Media Archives
Disaster archives are increasingly being built, but it has not been sufficiently clarified what kinds of content are useful for disaster preparedness education and learning. From the perspective of using disaster archives for disaster preparedness, the lab studies the content of archives and methods for collecting and organizing it.
MembersFaculty
- LecturerShinya YasumotoPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Damage of 2023 Noto earthquake swarm 01” 国土交通省 / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Post-Disaster Evidence-Based Research: “R6 noto earthquake noto-satoyama-kaido-expressway” Hurohukidaikon / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- How Disaster Information Affects People's Minds and Behavior: “Ogi city public outdoor speaker in Kamimigiwara” Peka / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Disasters and Popular Culture: “Movie theater seats (Unsplash)” Elijah Flores baesik / CC0 (cropped)
- Research on Media Archives: “Archive storage (Unsplash)” Samuel Zeller samuelzeller / CC0 (cropped)
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