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Foot, Kirsten

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1999

Office: CMU 333
Phone: 206-543-4837
E-Mail: kfoot@u.washington.edu

Kirsten Foot, Associate Professor, is interested in the reciprocal relationship between information/communication technologies and society. As co-director of the WebArchivist.org research group, she is developing new techniques for studying social and political action on the Web. Her current research projects include analyses of the Web spheres that developed around the 2002 U.S. elections and the events of 9/11/01, as well as a cross-national comparison of the role of the Web in elections. She is also interested in cultural-historical activity theory and other practice-based theories of technology, and in this vein she co-edits a book series called Acting With Technology at the MIT Press and studies the development of Internet-based NGO networks that monitor conflict internationally. She teaches courses on topics such as political communication, new media criticism, globalization and communication, communication technology and politics, and Internet research methods.

Project sites:
http://webarchivist.org
http://september11.archive.org
http://tsunami.archive.org

Selected Publications

Publication topics include:

Web Research Methods | Politics & the Internet | the Post-911 Web | Cultural-Historical Activity Theory

Web Research Methods

Steven M. Schneider and Kirsten A. Foot, Archiving Internet Content, in W. Donsbach (Ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Communication, Blackwell, (In Press).

Kirsten A. Foot, "Web Sphere Analysis and Cybercultural Studies", in D. Silver & A. Massanari (Eds.), Critical Cyberculture Studies: Current Terrains, Future Directions, New York: New York University (2006).

Steven M. Schneider & Kirsten Foot, "Web Sphere Analysis: An Approach to Studying Online Action", In C. Hine (Ed.), Virtual Methods: Issues in Social Research on the Internet. Oxford: Berg Publishers, pp. 157-170, 2005.

Steven M. Schneider & Kirsten A. Foot, "The Web as an Object of Study", New Media and Society , V. 6, N.1, 114-122, 2004.

Steven M. Schneider, Kirsten A. Foot, Michele Kimpton & Gina Jones, "Building Thematic Web Collections: Challenges and Experiences from the September 11 Web Archive and the Election 2002 Web Archive", Paper presented at the European Conference on Digital Libraries Workshop on Web Archives, Trondheim, Norway, August 21, 2003.

Politics & the Internet

Randolph Kluver, Nicholas Jankowski, Kirsten Foot, and Steven Schneider (Eds.), The Web and National Elections: A Comparative Study of Web Campaigning, New York: Routledge (2007).

Michael Xenos and Kirsten Foot, Not Your Father's Internet: The Generation Gap in Online Politics, in L. Bennett (Ed.), Civic Life Online: Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth, The John D. and Katherine T. MacArthur Series on Digital Media and Learning, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (2008), pp. 51-70.

Kirsten Foot & Steven Schneider, Web Campaigning , MIT Press, 2006.
Digital Supplement: http://mitpress.mit.edu/webcampaigning

Michael Xenos & Kirsten A. Foot, 'Politics as Usual, or Politics Unusual: Position-Taking and Dialogue on Campaign Web Sites in the 2002 U.S. Elections', Journal of Communication, Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 169-185, March, 2005.

Kirsten A. Foot, Steven M. Schneider, Meghan Dougherty, Michael Xenos, & Elena Larsen, Analyzing linking practices: Candidate sites in the 2002 US electoral Web sphere , Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication , Vol. 8, No. 4, 2003.

Jennifer Stromer-Galley and Kirsten A. Foot, 'Citizens, Campaigns, and Online Interactivity', Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Vol. 8, N. 1, October, 2002.

Kirsten A. Foot and Steven M. Schneider, 'Online Action in Campaign 2000: An Exploratory Analysis of the U.S. Political Web Sphere', Journal of Broadcast and Electronic Media, June 2002, Vol. 46, N. 2, pp. 222-244.

Steven M. Schneider and Kirsten A. Foot, 'Online Structure for Political Action', Javnost (The Public), Vol. 9, N. 2, pp. 43-60, June, 2002.

The Post-9/11 Web

Kirsten A. Foot, Barbara Warnick & Steven M. Schneider, 'Web-Based Memorializing After September 11: Toward a Conceptual Framework', Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication , Vol. 11, No. 1, 2005.

Kirsten A. Foot and Steven M. Schneider, 'Online Structures for Citizen Engagement in the September 11th Web Sphere', Electronic Journal of Communication, Vol. 14, N. 3 & 4, 2004.

Erica Siegl and Kirsten A. Foot, 'Expression in the Post-September 11th Web Sphere', Electronic Journal of Communication, V. 14, N. 1 & 2, 2004.

Steven M. Schneider and Kirsten A. Foot, 'The Web After September 11', in Lee Rainie, Steven M. Schneider and Kirsten A. Foot, (Eds.), One Year Later, September 11 and the Internet, Pew Internet & American Life Project Report, September, 2002.

Cultural-Historical Activity Theory

Kirsten A. Foot, 'Pursuing an Evolving Object: Object Formation and Identification in a Conflict Monitoring Network', Mind, Culture and Activity, Summer, 2002, V.9, N. 2, pp.132-149

Kirsten A. Foot, 'Cultural-Historical Activity Theory as Practical Theory: Illuminating the Development of a Conflict Monitoring Network', Communication Theory, Spring, 2001, Vol. 11, N.1, pp. 56-83.

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