Tkach Kawasaki Leslie

Affiliation
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Official title
Associate Professor
Research projects
Comparative Energy Discourse in Japan and Germany2014-10 -- 2017-09Leslie Tkach-KawasakiJapan Society for the Promotion of Science/Topic-Setting Program to Advance Cutting Edge Humanities and Social Sciences Research -- Area Cultivation11,163,000Yen
日本における政治家、市民とソーシャルメディア2013-04 -- 2017-03Leslie Tkach-KawasakiJapan Society for the Promotion of Science/基盤研究(C)4,290,000Yen
Degree
2006-09Ph.D.University of Tsukuba
2001-03Master of ArtsUniversity of Tsukuba
1997-11Master of ArtsMonash University
1989-05Certificate of Business AdministrationUniversity of Regina
1987-05Bachelor of Arts (Advanced)University of Regina
Academic societies
2017 -- (current)European Association of Japanese Studies
2017 -- (current)International Network for Social Network Analysis
2007 -- (current)Japanese Studies Association of Canada
1999 -- 2014Association of Internet Researchers
2002 -- 2006Japan Society for Information and Media Studies
2002 -- 2012The Japan Society of Socio-Information Studies
2010 -- 2015International Communication Association
Articles
  • Individual and contextual determinants of adoption of online media services in the 2017 lower house election campaign in Japan
    Vergeer Maurice; Tkach-Kawasaki Leslie; Lee Junku
    TELEMATICS AND INFORMATICS/50, 2020-07
  • Correction to: Identifying the ‘Fukushima Effect’ in Germany through policy actors’ responses: evidence from the G-GEPON 2 survey
    Hartwig Manuela; Tkach Kawasaki Leslie
    QUALITY & QUANTITY/54(2020)/pp.213-234, 2020-01
  • The Relationship Between Information-Sharing and Resource-Sharing Networks in Environmental Policy Governance: Focusing on Germany and Japan
    Lee Junku (Ph.D. Candidate); Tkach Kawasaki Leslie
    Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia/17(2)/pp.176-199, 2018-12
  • Analysis of the Policy Network for the ‘Feed-in Tariff Law’ in Japan: Evidence from the GEPON survey
    Okura Sae; Tkach Kawasaki Leslie; Kobashi Yohei; Hartwig ...
    Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia/15(1)/pp.41-63, 2016-05
  • Identifying the ‘Fukushima Effect’: Assessing Japanese Mass-Media Coverage of International Nuclear Power Decisions
    Hartwig Manuela; Okura Sae; Tkach Kawasaki Leslie; Kobash...
    国際日本研究/8/pp.109-124, 2016-02
  • Social Media for Enhancing Civil Society and Disaster Relief: Usage by Local Municipalities in Japan
    Kaigo Muneo; Tkach-Kawasaki Leslie
    eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government/7(1)/pp.1-22, 2015-10
  • Energy policy participation through networks transcending cleavage: an analysis of Japanese and German renewable energy promotion policies
    Hartwig Manuela; Kobashi Yohei; Okura Sae; Tkach-Kawasaki...
    Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology/49(4)/pp.1485-1512, 2015-07
  • Mapping Political Connections in Japan: The Functions of Hyperlinks on Japanese Diet Member Websites
    Tkach-Kawasaki Leslie
    SOCIAL SCIENCE COMPUTER REVIEW/29(3)/pp.300-312, 2011-08
  • The Information Society and the Digital Divide: Legal Strategies to Finance Global Access
    レスリー タック　川﨑
    International Journal of Communications Law & Policy/13, 2009-01
  • A Comparative Analysis of Politician Websites in Japan and South Korea using Website Feature Data
    Tkach-Kawasaki; Kim; Hyo; Kyoung Ho Choi; and Han Woo Park; ...
    Journal of the Korean Data Analysis Society/9(5)/p.2507-2520, 2007-10
  • Japanese Political Parties and the Internet in the 2000 and 2001 Elections
    レスリー タック　川﨑
    Bulletin of the Faculty of Representational Studies/7/p.183-216, 2006-01
  • “Does Old Japan Determine New Japan? The Relationship between Seken, the Internet, and Political Consciousness in Japan”
    Nakada Makoto; Takanori Tamura; and Toshikazu Iitaka; Les...
    CATAC ’04 (Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication Conference)/p.1-15, 2004-06
  • Japanese Cybercultures
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    Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (http://rccs.usfca.edu/), 2004-06
  • Politics@Japan
    レスリー タック　川﨑
    Party Politics/9(1)/p.105-123, 2003-01
  • The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-Line Pioneers
    レスリー タック　川﨑
    Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (http://rccs.usfca.edu/), 2002-04
Books
  • Japan: New Directions for Digital Japan
    Tkach Kawasaki Leslie
    Political Communication and COVID-19: Governance and Rhetoric in Times of Crisis/Routledge/pp.44-54, 2021-02
  • Research Results Compilation: Comparative Energy Policy and Discourse in Japan and Germany, October 2014 - March 2018
    Tkach Kawasaki Leslie; 大倉 沙江
    Research Results Compilation: Comparative Energy Policy and Discourse in Japan and Germany, October 2014 - March 2018/University of Tsukuba, 2018-01
  • Global Environmental Policy Network Survey, Germany (G-GEPON 2) November 2016 to February 2017 Codebook
    Tkach Kawasaki Leslie
    University of Tsukuba, 2017-09
  • Civil Society, Social Media and Facebook Usage by Local Governments: Birth of the Tsukuba Study and the Tsukuba Civil Activities Cyber-Square
    海後　宗男; Tkach Kawasaki Leslie
    Social Media and Civil Society in Japan/Palgrave Macmillan/pp.97-119, 2017
  • 2nd ICIE (International Center for Information Ethics) Symposium
    Nakada; Makoto; Takanori Tamura; Tadashi Takenouchi; Toshik...
    2002-01
  • L’Internet en Politique, Des États-Unis À L’Europe (The Internet and Politics in the United States and Europe)
    Viviane Serfaty (Ed.)
    Strasbourg: University of Strasbourg Press, 2002-01
  • The encyclopedia of community: From the village to the virtual world
    Karen Christensen and David Levinson (Eds.)
    Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA, 2003-01
  • Asia.com: Asia encounters the Internet,
    K.C. Ho Randolph Kluver and Kenneth C.C. Yang (Eds.)
    London: Routledge Curzon, 2003-01
  • E-Democracy in East Asia? How the Internet Affects Politics and Civil Society in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan
    Isa Ducke (Ed.)
    Iudicium: Berlin/Tokyo, 2004-01
  • E-Democracy in East Asia? How the Internet Affects Politics and Civil Society in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan
    Isa Ducke (Ed.); +レスリー タック　川﨑
    Iudicium: Berlin/Tokyo, 2004-01
  • The Internet and National Elections: A Global Comparative Perspective
    Kirsten Foot Nicholas W. Jankowski Randolph Kluver an...
    Routledge, 2007-01
  • Civil Society and Interest Groups in Contemporary Japan
    Edited by Yutaka Tsujinaka; Translated by Takafumi Ohtom...
    2008-01
  • Japan and the Internet: Perspectives and Practices
    Tsujinaka; Yutaka; Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki (eds.) Nakada; ...
    CAJS Monograph No. 1, 2011-03
  • Japan and the Internet: Perspectives and Practices ("Introduction")
    Tkach-Kawasaki Leslie M
    CAJS Monograph No. 1, 2011-03
  • Japan and the Internet: Perspectives and Practices ("The Internet and Campaigns in Japan: Traditions and Innovations")
    Tkach-Kawasaki Leslie M
    CAJS Monograph No. 1, 2011-03
  • Messages and Messengers: Angeletics as an Approach to the Phenomenology of Communication
    Rafael Capurro; John Holgate (Eds.) 論文著者：Tkach-Kawasaki...
    Wilhelm Fink, 2011-01
  • Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan: Response and recovery after Japan’s 3/11
    Jeff Kingston (Ed.)
    Routledge: Oxon, U.K., 2012-01
Conference, etc.
  • Post-COVID-19 Public Policy Communication in Japan
    Tkach Kawasaki Leslie
    JSAC (Japan Studies Association of Canada) Ad Hoc Online Conference/2020-10-17--2020-10-18
  • Japan’s Emerging Internet Campaign Culture: Japanese Politicians Online in the 2019 Upper House Election
    Tkach Kawasaki Leslie
    Japan Studies Association of Canada (JSAC)/2019-10-03--2019-10-06
  • Feature Analysis of Japanese Election Bulletins
    Tkach Kawasaki Leslie
    Japan Studies Association of Canada 2018 Annual Conference/2018-10-11--2018-10-14
  • The Comparative Energy Discourse Project: New Approaches to Methodology
    Tkach Kawasaki Leslie
    #DISC2018, WATEF International Conference 2018, Innovating Data Representation for Future Strategy/2018-07-05--2018-07-05
  • Results from the G-GEPON 2 Survey
    Tkach Kawasaki Leslie
    2nd CEDP Open Symposium/2017-07-31--2017-07-31
  • A comparative study of environmental policy actor networks in Japan and Germany
    Tkach Kawasaki Leslie; Lee Junku; Hartwig Manuela
    XXXVII Sunbelt Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA)/2017-05-30--2017-06-04
  • Networks of Policy Change and Continuance: Mapping the Post-Fukushima Energy and Environmental Policy Networks in Germany
    Tkach Kawasaki Leslie; Hartwig Manuela; Lee Junku
    XXXVII Sunbelt Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA/2017-05-30--2017-06-04
  • Analysis of the Policy Network for the“Feed-in Tariff Law“ in Japan: Evidence from the GEPON Survey
    Okura Sae; Tkach Kawasaki Leslie; Kobashi Yohei; Hartwig ...
    DISC 2015 (Daegu Gyeongbuk International Social Network Conference 2015), Panel 2 Policy & Network Analysis/2015-10-29--2015-10-31
  • Connecting Offline and Online Surveys: Reconsidering Respondent Determinants in Attribute Bias
    Okura Sae; Kobashi Yohei; Tkach Kawasaki Leslie; Hartwig ...
    General Online Research [GOR] Conference 2015/2015-03-18--2015-03-20
  • Japanese Politicians and Online Media: Past and Present
    Tkach Kawasaki Leslie
    WATEF Spring Special Seminar/2017-03-25--2017-03-25
  • Tweeting for the Youth Vote: Japanese Political Party Twitter Use in the July 2016 Upper House Election
    Tkach Kawasaki Leslie
    DISC 2016 (Daegu Gyeongbuk International Social Network Conference) WATEF International Conference 2016/2016-12-08--2016-12-10
  • Institutional Actors Online: Japan’s Local Election Management Boards in the 2016 Upper House Election
    Tkach Kawasaki Leslie
    Japan Studies Association of Canada 2016 Annual Conference/2016-10-13--2016-10-16
  • New Directions or Old Campaign Practices? Japanese Candidates Online in 2013 and 2014
    Tkach Kawasaki Leslie
    Japan Studies Association of Canada 2015 Annual Conference in Japan/2015-05-20--2015-05-23
  • A New Era in Japan Election Campaigning? Perspectives on ‘Big Data’ and Social Media Use in Japan’s Electoral Landscape
    Tkach Kawasaki Leslie
    DISC 2014 (Daegu Gyeongbuk International Social Network Conference)/2014-12-11--2014-12-13
  • Friends, Tweets, and Youtube: New Directions in Online Campaigning in Japan
    Tkach Kawasaki Leslie
    Association of Internet Researchers IR15 Boundaries and Intersections/2014-10-21--2014-10-21
Teaching
2021-04 -- 2021-06Seminar on Central Eurasian Studies BIUniversity of Tsukuba.
2021-04 -- 2021-06International Politics IIAUniversity of Tsukuba.
2021-04 -- 2021-06Public Policy for Social Development IIAUniversity of Tsukuba.
2021-04 -- 2021-08Project Seminar 2DUniversity of Tsukuba.
2021-10 -- 2022-02Specially Arranged Research Program Development 2University of Tsukuba.
2021-10 -- 2022-02Specially Arranged Research Program Development 4University of Tsukuba.
2021-10 -- 2021-12Research Program Development 6University of Tsukuba.
2021-10 -- 2021-12Seminar on Public Policy IIIUniversity of Tsukuba.
2021-04 -- 2021-06Research Program Development 9University of Tsukuba.
2021-04 -- 2021-06Research Program Development 7University of Tsukuba.
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Talks
  • A Disaster Unfolds: Portrayals of 3.11 in Japan’s Online and Offline News
    レスリー タック　川﨑
    Japan Workshop/2012-07-06
  • Factors in Determining Online Success: Case Studies in the Campaign Use of the Internet
    レスリー タック　川﨑
    Polish Communication Association (PCA) Conference “Political Communication in the New Technology’s Era”/2011-09-22
  • Social Media Grows Up: The Rise of Social Media in Japan 2010-2011
    レスリー タック　川﨑
    Japanese Studies Association of Canada (JSAC), JSAC 2011 Conference/2011-08-18
  • Open Session: Disaster Strikes Japan/the World
    レスリー タック　川﨑
    The Fifteenth Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ)/2011-06-25
  • Open Session: Disaster Strikes Japan/the World
    レスリー タック　川﨑
    The Fifteenth Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ)/2011-06-25
  • Social Networks and Social Media in Japan
    Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki; +レスリー タック　川﨑
    3rd International Conference on Digital Culture/2010-11-08
  • New Media Campaigning: Japanese Candidates Online 2007 and 2010
    Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki; +レスリー タック　川﨑
    Japan Studies Association of Canada (JSAC) Conference/2010-09-30
  • (Panel Convenor) Panel Title: “Reflections of Traditional Japan on the Internet” Presented paper title: “Modern Campaigning in a Traditional Context: Japanese Political Figures on the Internet”
    Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki; +レスリー タック　川﨑
    Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting/2010-08-25
  • Mapping Political Connections in Japan: The Functions of Hyperlinks on Japanese Diet Member Websites
    Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki; +レスリー タック　川﨑
    International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Conference, “Matters of Communication,”/2010-06-22
Professional activities
-- (current)Association of Internet ResearchersMember, AOIR Ethics Committee
2003 -- 2005Association of Internet ResearchersGraduate Student Representative
2005-02 -- 2013-12Journal of Information Technology and PoliticsEditorial Board Member, Journal of Information Technology and Politics
2010 -- (current)Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)Reviewer, IEEE Journal
2009-02 -- 2013-12Journal of Information Technology and PoliticsSenior Book Review Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics
University Management
2020 -- 2021M.A. and Ph.D. Program in International and Advanced Japanese Studies, Mental Health CommitteeChair, Mental Health Committee
2020 -- (current)M.A. and Ph.D. Program in International Public Policy, Network CommitteeChair, Network Committee
2019 -- 2020M.A. Program in International Area Studies, Network CommitteeChair, Network Committee
2020 -- (current)Editorial Committee, Journal of International and Advanced Japanese StudiesMember, Editorial Committee
2014-04 -- 2019Journal Committee, International and Advanced Japanese StudiesEditor-in-Chief
Other activities
2016-04 -- 2017-03Accounting Auditing duties for Azuma Elementary School Parent-Teacher Association (PTA)
2015-04 -- 2016-03Accounting duties for Azuma Elementary School Parent-Teacher Association (PTA)
2015-04 -- 2016-03Executive Member, Poplar 39 Children's Club, Azuma 2-chome Neighborhood Association, Tsukuba, Ibaraki
2013-04 -- 2014-03Accountancy duties for Kaze-no-ko Club (affiliated with the Nishi Azuma Jidokan), Tsukuba, Ibaraki

(Last updated: 2021-08-20)