ArticleAuthors: Joo-Young Jung; Kiyoko Toriumi; Shin Mizukoshi (2013)
This study examines how the neighborhood storytelling network, which is conceptualized in communication infrastructure theory and includes interperso-nal, organizational and community media connectedness, and an individual’s Internet connectedness affected participation in civic activities in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake, which occurred on 11 March 2011.
Responses from 544 randomly selected people residing in Tokyo reveal that connectedness to a neighborhood storytelling network and one’s Internet conn-ectedness have positive effects on participation in civic activities in response to the earthquake. However, the two independent factors (neighborhood story-telling... 
