Digital Histories of Disasters: History of Technology through Social Media

On 11 March 2011, a giant earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Japan triggered the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Failure of the plant’s heating and cooling system and an inability to properly stabilize the reactors post-meltdown led to the displacement of over 150,000 people. In its wake, t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Onaga, Lisa, Shell, Hanna Rose
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Muse - Johns Hopkins University Press 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105220
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4538-5819