%0 Journal Article
%T Governing and societal media for building resilience: A sociocybernetic study of the disaster recovery in Japan
%A Toru Takahashi
%J Current Sociology
%@ 1461-7064
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0011392119837538
%X How can society deal with a severe disaster that entails wide-ranging societal problems? This article aims to elaborate a sociocybernetic approach to describe and improve collective efforts which are tackling such problems. First, a concept of ¡®governing¡¯ will be introduced to describe efforts of not only public actors but also private actors. A case study of recovery efforts which were made in response to the large-scale disasters in 1995 and 2011 in Japan shows that governing can and needs to be empowered by the media. Focusing on one disaster-hit area in Japan, this article examines in what way and to what extent the media (the mass media and the Internet) supported local non-profit organizations (NPOs) working for their communities. The supportive use of the media will be defined as ¡®societal media¡¯. Making use of these key terms (governing and societal media), this article concludes that combining a variety of efforts with the supportive use of media is an essential component of building resilience in contemporary society
%K Disaster recovery
%K governing
%K Japan
%K resilience
%K societal media
%K Gobierno
%K redes societales
%K recuperaci¨®n del desastre
%K resiliencia
%K Jap¨®n
%K Gouvernement
%K r¨¦seaux soci¨¦taux
%K r¨¦cup¨¦ration d¡¯une catastrophe
%K r¨¦silience
%K Japon
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0011392119837538