著者

上野 亮 飯島 泰裕

雑誌

青山社会情報研究 (ISSN:18837638)

巻号頁・発行日

no.4, pp.29-33, 2012-12-25

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The East Japan great earthquake disaster occurred in March 2011. Information distribution using social media became one of the most important sources of information at the time. It was found that local governments throughout the whole country gave increased attention to social media. As a result, the utilization by local governments of social media significantly increased as it became a part of government policy. However, the concrete trend of this utilization of social media has not yet become clear. In this study, a questionnaire was distributed to 1,742 local governments throughout Japan from June to July of 2012. The name of the questionnaire was "an investigation of the variation of the actual situation of social media throughout the region." The results of the questionnaire are at first analyzed, and then the data are analyzed using an example of Facebook administered by the local government. In the analysis, Sagamihara city (Kanagawa Prefecture) and Kanazawa city (Ishikawa Prefecture) were chosen as the target cities. Using these two cities as a test case, a joint questionnaire was carried out. The overall results revealed a variation in the trend of social media within current local governments.