Kirsten Foot

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Kirsten Foot is an Associate Professor of Communication and Adjunct Faculty in the Information School at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on the reciprocal relationship between information/communication technologies and society, and as co-director of the WebArchivist.org research group, she develops new methods and tools for studying social and political action on the Web. She is particularly interested in practice-based theories of technology and the dynamics and politics of communication and knowledge production in networked environments. She is the co-author of Web Campaigning (MIT Press, 2006), co-editor of The Internet and National Elections (Routledge, 2007), and has published articles on Web archiving, Web sphere analysis, practice-based theory, and computer-mediated communication.

Publications

Schneider, Steven, Kirsten Foot, and Paul Wouters. 2009. "Taking Web Archiving Seriously." In e-Research: Transformations in Scholarly Practice, edited by Nicholas Jankowski, 205-221. New York: Routledge.

Schneider, Steven, Kirsten Foot, and Paul Wouters. 2009. "Web Archiving as e-Research." In e-Research: Transformation in Scholarly Practice, edited by Nicholas Jankowski, 205-221. New York: Routledge.

Foot, Kirsten, Steven Schneider, Randolph Kluver, Michael Xenos, and Nicholas Jankowski. 2007. "Comparing web production practices across electoral web spheres." In The Internet and National Elections. A comparative study of web campaigning, edited by Randolph Kluver, Nicholas Jankowski, Kirsten Foot, and Steven Schneider, 243-260. London: Routledge.

Jankowski, Nicholas, Randolph Kluver, Kirsten Foot, and Steven Schneider. 2007. "Introducing the Internet and Elections Project." In The Internet and National Elections. A comparative study of web campaigning, edited by Randolph Kluver, Nicholas Jankowski, Kirsten Foot, and Steven Schneider, 3-15. London: Routledge.

Kluver, Randolph, Nicholas Jankowski, Kirsten Foot, and eds, Schneider. 2007. The Internet and National Elections. A Comparative Study of Web Campaigning. London: Routledge.

Schneider, Steven, Randolph Kluver, Nicholas Jankowski, and Kirsten Foot. 2007. "Epilogue: reflecting on elections and the web." In The Internet and National Elections. A comparative study of web campaigning, edited by Randolph Kluver, Nicholas Jankowski, Kirsten Foot, and Steven Schneider, 261-264. London: Routledge.

van Os, Renee, Carlo Hagemann, Gerrit Voerman, and Nicholas Jankowski. 2007. "The Netherlands: party and candidate websites during the 2004 European Parliament election campaign." In The Internet and National Elections. A comparative study of web campaigning, edited by Randolph Kluver, Nicholas Jankowski, Kirsten Foot, and Steven Schneider, 43-59. London: Routledge.

Wouters, Paul, Christine Hine, Kirsten Foot, Steven Schgneider, Subbiah Arunachalam, and Raed Sharif. 2007. "Promise and Practice of Open Access to e-Science." In Past, Present, and Future of Research in the Information Society: Reflections at the Occasion of the World Summit on the Information Society, Tunis 2005, edited by W. Shrum, K.R. Benson, W.E. Bijker, and K. Brunnstein, 159-172. Springer.

Foot, Kirsten and Steven Schneider. 2006. Web Campaigning. The MIT Press.

Presentations

Tatum, Clifford and Kirsten Foot. 2007. "From ad-hoc to infrastructure: The lifecycle of hyperlink networks and its implications for social, cultural, and political activity." Paper presented at New Network Theory, University of Amsterdam. Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Wouters, Paul, Christine Hine, Kirsten Foot, Steven Schneider, Subbiah Arunachalam, and Raed Sharif. 2006. "Promise and Practice of Open Access to e-Science." Paper presented at Past, present and future of research in het information science. Proceedings of WSIS. November 13-15, 2005. Tunis, Tunisia. 159-173.