Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2014

Presentation information

Poster

Symbol M (Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary) » M-TT Technology & Techniques

[M-TT44_2PO1] Social media and earth and planetary sciences

Fri. May 2, 2014 4:15 PM - 5:30 PM Poster (3F)

Convener:*Amano Kazuo(Department of Environmental Sciences,Ibaraki University), Takashi Oguchi(Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo), Masaki Ito Masaki(Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo)

4:15 PM - 5:30 PM

[MTT44-P02] Utilization of facebook for the management of working groups in North Ibaraki Geopark

*Kazuo AMANO1, Jun HOSOI2, Geological information utilizing project IBARAKI UNIVERSITY1 (1.Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University, 2.Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University)

Keywords:SNS, geopark, North Ibaraki Geopark, facebook

Exchange of information with SNS like Twitter, foursquare, facebook has been done in the North Ibaraki Geopark (Saito et al., 2010; Ito et al., 2011, 2012; Amano et al., 2012, 2013). Facbook is very useful for the management of the North Ibaraki Geopark because it has many capabilities such as file upload and event planning etc. Recently, Utilization of facebook for management of four working groups in the North Ibaraki Geopark is carried out. Members of each working group successfully discuss or communicate many things for the management of the North Ibaraki Geopark.