Tkach Kawasaki Leslie
- Affiliation
- Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Official title
- Associate Professor
- Research projects
Comparative Energy Discourse in Japan and Germany 2014-10 -- 2017-09 Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/Topic-Setting Program to Advance Cutting Edge Humanities and Social Sciences Research -- Area Cultivation 11,163,000Yen 日本における政治家、市民とソーシャルメディア 2013-04 -- 2017-03 Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/基盤研究(C) 4,290,000Yen - Degree
2006-09 Ph.D. University of Tsukuba 2001-03 Master of Arts University of Tsukuba 1997-11 Master of Arts Monash University 1989-05 Certificate of Business Administration University of Regina 1987-05 Bachelor 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 -- 2014 Association of Internet Researchers 2002 -- 2006 Japan Society for Information and Media Studies 2002 -- 2012 The Japan Society of Socio-Information Studies 2010 -- 2015 International 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
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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
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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
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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
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Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (http://rccs.usfca.edu/), 2002-04
- Individual and contextual determinants of adoption of online media services in the 2017 lower house election campaign in Japan
- 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
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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
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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")
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CAJS Monograph No. 1, 2011-03 - Japan and the Internet: Perspectives and Practices ("The Internet and Campaigns in Japan: Traditions and Innovations")
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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
- Japan: New Directions for Digital Japan
- 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
- Post-COVID-19 Public Policy Communication in Japan
- Teaching
2021-04 -- 2021-06 Seminar on Central Eurasian Studies BI University of Tsukuba. 2021-04 -- 2021-06 International Politics IIA University of Tsukuba. 2021-04 -- 2021-06 Public Policy for Social Development IIA University of Tsukuba. 2021-04 -- 2021-08 Project Seminar 2D University of Tsukuba. 2021-10 -- 2022-02 Specially Arranged Research Program Development 2 University of Tsukuba. 2021-10 -- 2022-02 Specially Arranged Research Program Development 4 University of Tsukuba. 2021-10 -- 2021-12 Research Program Development 6 University of Tsukuba. 2021-10 -- 2021-12 Seminar on Public Policy III University of Tsukuba. 2021-04 -- 2021-06 Research Program Development 9 University of Tsukuba. 2021-04 -- 2021-06 Research Program Development 7 University of Tsukuba. more... - Talks
- A Disaster Unfolds: Portrayals of 3.11 in Japan’s Online and Offline News
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Japan Workshop/2012-07-06 - Factors in Determining Online Success: Case Studies in the Campaign Use of the Internet
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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
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Japanese Studies Association of Canada (JSAC), JSAC 2011 Conference/2011-08-18 - Open Session: Disaster Strikes Japan/the World
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The Fifteenth Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ)/2011-06-25 - Open Session: Disaster Strikes Japan/the World
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The Fifteenth Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ)/2011-06-25 - Social Networks and Social Media in Japan
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3rd International Conference on Digital Culture/2010-11-08 - New Media Campaigning: Japanese Candidates Online 2007 and 2010
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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”
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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
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International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Conference, “Matters of Communication,”/2010-06-22
- A Disaster Unfolds: Portrayals of 3.11 in Japan’s Online and Offline News
- Professional activities
-- (current) Association of Internet Researchers Member, AOIR Ethics Committee 2003 -- 2005 Association of Internet Researchers Graduate Student Representative 2005-02 -- 2013-12 Journal of Information Technology and Politics Editorial Board Member, Journal of Information Technology and Politics 2010 -- (current) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Reviewer, IEEE Journal 2009-02 -- 2013-12 Journal of Information Technology and Politics Senior Book Review Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics - University Management
2020 -- 2021 M.A. and Ph.D. Program in International and Advanced Japanese Studies, Mental Health Committee Chair, Mental Health Committee 2020 -- (current) M.A. and Ph.D. Program in International Public Policy, Network Committee Chair, Network Committee 2019 -- 2020 M.A. Program in International Area Studies, Network Committee Chair, Network Committee 2020 -- (current) Editorial Committee, Journal of International and Advanced Japanese Studies Member, Editorial Committee 2014-04 -- 2019 Journal Committee, International and Advanced Japanese Studies Editor-in-Chief - Other activities
2016-04 -- 2017-03 Accounting Auditing duties for Azuma Elementary School Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) 2015-04 -- 2016-03 Accounting duties for Azuma Elementary School Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) 2015-04 -- 2016-03 Executive Member, Poplar 39 Children's Club, Azuma 2-chome Neighborhood Association, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 2013-04 -- 2014-03 Accountancy duties for Kaze-no-ko Club (affiliated with the Nishi Azuma Jidokan), Tsukuba, Ibaraki
(Last updated: 2021-08-20)