Perception-Based Resilience: Accounting for Human Perception in Resilience Thinking with Its Theoretic and Model Bases

Abstract

We have previously introduced the concept of perception-based resilience that accounts for the impact of human perception in resilience thinking. In this paper, we further this concept as we argue for our novel perception-based resilience model by elucidating its theoretic and model bases and how they fit coherently in the model. To provide traces of evidence to support our model, we analyzed thousands of social media contents that were posted during an actual disaster, and we framed our analyses based on the various aspects of our model. In doing so, we moved our analyses beyond the anecdotal and conventional contribution of social media-based analysis and contribute a novel high-level analysis of social resilience.