TY - GEN
T1 - Demographic Factors in the Disaster-Related Information Seeking Behaviour
AU - Rahmi, Rahmi
AU - Joho, Hideo
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments. This work was supported in part by the 2016 iFellows Doctoral Fellowship, the Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP), and PUTI Q1 contract NKB-1450/UN2.RST/HKP.05.00/2020. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions described here are the authors’ and do not necessarily reflect those of the sponsors.
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Although demographics are important factors in the investigation of disaster studies, existing work on disaster-related information seeking behaviour (ISB) does not offer quantitative insight into the relationship between them. This paper investigates the demographic factors such as age, gender, location, and occupation, and their relationship with information needs, information sources, and information channels. Content analysis was performed on the testimony of 262 people who experienced the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011. The results suggest that a large effect was observed between (1) age and active information needs and (2) gender and information sources. Our findings can be useful for designing policies and programmes at risk of major disaster events as they offer multiple ideas about how to optimise disaster-coping plans for diverse communities.
AB - Although demographics are important factors in the investigation of disaster studies, existing work on disaster-related information seeking behaviour (ISB) does not offer quantitative insight into the relationship between them. This paper investigates the demographic factors such as age, gender, location, and occupation, and their relationship with information needs, information sources, and information channels. Content analysis was performed on the testimony of 262 people who experienced the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011. The results suggest that a large effect was observed between (1) age and active information needs and (2) gender and information sources. Our findings can be useful for designing policies and programmes at risk of major disaster events as they offer multiple ideas about how to optimise disaster-coping plans for diverse communities.
KW - Demographic factors
KW - Disaster-related information seeking behaviour
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85104898737&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-71305-8_4
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-71305-8_4
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85104898737
SN - 9783030713041
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 48
EP - 65
BT - Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue - 16th International Conference, iConference 2021, Proceedings
A2 - Toeppe, Katharina
A2 - Yan, Hui
A2 - Chu, Samuel Kai
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 16th International Conference on Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue, iConference 2021
Y2 - 17 March 2021 through 31 March 2021
ER -