Researcher Database - YAMADA KO | Kobe Gakuin University

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YAMADA KO

Department / Course

Kobe Gakuin University The Faculty of Business Administration Department of Business Administration

Job Professor

Academic background
	Tokyo Institute of Technology
	School of Science Tokyo Institute of Technology
	School of Science Tokyo Institute of Technology

Business career
2025/04/01 ～	Professor Kobe Gakuin University The Faculty of Business Administration Department of Business Administration

Themes Available for Lectures and Interviews
Public reactions to media coverage for natural disasters (especially volcanoes and earthquakes)

Book and thesis
2025/07	Books	An Empirical Examination of the Relationship Between News Reports and Online Public Opinions on the Mount Kusatsu-Shirane Volcanic Eruption. In “Kusatsu-Shirane volcano” Active Volcanoes of the World,pp.231-255 (Sole-authored)
2024/11	Papers	Discourse dynamics and mass media’s influence on social media narratives: Twitter analysis of the Great East Japan earthquake’s 10th anniversary Journal of Risk Research 27 (10),pp.1180-1212 (Sole-authored)
2023/03	Papers	Research Note: What is “Tourism in Hiroshima” as discussed in the Corona Disaster? - Predicting the Number of Tourists to Hiroshima from Twitter -. Journal of the Society for Contemporary Business Studies, Yasuda Women's University,pp.28-56 (Sole-authored)
2022/03	Papers	Research Note: What is “Tourism in Hiroshima” as Discussed in the Corona Disaster? - Exploring its Characteristics through Twitter Analysis - Version 2021 Journal of the Society for Contemporary Business Studies, Yasuda Women's University,pp.24-49 (Sole-authored)
2022/02	Papers	Examining the relationship between media representations of typhoon-related issues and public risk perception International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 72 (10),pp.102837 (Sole-authored)
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Academic conference presentation
2019/09/25	The Public's View of Volcanic Risk in Online Comments on the 2018 Kusatsu-Shiranesan Eruption News
2019/05/27	Social Response Analysis to the 2018 Kusatsu-Shiranesan Eruption Using a Net Folklore Approach
2018/09/27	Analysis of Social Reactions to Volcano Eruption News: Through the Analysis of Comments on Yahoo!
2018/05/20	Media Frames in Seismology: A Quantitative Analysis of the Reporting Content Represented in the Newspaper Media
2017/10/27	Quantitative content analysis of seismological expertise as expressed in the newspaper media
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Research topic, funded research, and department laboratory expense
	Influence of natural hazard coverage on online public opinion
2020/04 ～ 2021/03	Risk communication for catastrophic eruption hazards Research by External Competitive Fund
2014/04 ～ 2018/03	A Comparative Study of Press Conference of Japanese Government and News coverage on the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster in Its Early Stage Research by External Competitive Fund
2013/04 ～ 2015/03	On the possibility of dust pushing the planet Research by External Competitive Fund
2010/04 ～ 2013/03	Jupiter, whose existence is theoretically a mystery Research by External Competitive Fund

Present specialized field
keyword(Science and Technology Journalism, Disaster Information Theory, Web Information Theory)

Research Theme
Social acceptance process of risk information

Research Themes for Collaboration and Commissioned Research
1. Research on mass media effect theory\n2. Development of high-precision text mining

Winning science prize
2021/03	The Seismological Society of Japan Awards (A Quantitative Content Analysis of the Coverage of Seismological News in Japanese Newspapers, 1990 to 2016)
2007/05	The Volcanological Society of Japan Best Paper Award (Bubble expansion rates in viscous compressible liquid)

Belonging society
2000/04 ～ 2019/03	The Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences
2005/04	The Volcanological Society of Japan
2007/04 ～ 2025/03	Japan Geoscience Union
2015/04	The Seismological Society of Japan
2017/04	The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
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Committee and society
2020/04	The Volcanological Society of Japan Public Relations Committee
2018/04 ～ 2020/03	The Volcanological Society of Japan Business Committee
2013/04	Center for Planetary Science, Kobe University Collaborative Researchers
2012/04 ～ 2014/03	The Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences Program Committee
2009/04 ～ 2014/03	Japan Geoscience Union Committee for Career Support
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Activity in society
2017/02	So much, the volcano is alive.
2016/02	Learn about the breath of a volcano
2013/04 ～ 2015/03	SSH Steering and Guidance Committee External Evaluation Committee Member
2009/06	General Lecture for High School Students “Origin, Evolution and Diversity of Planetary Systems”
2006/06	High school lecture “What is science and technology communication?
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