K Foot
Biographic Data
| ID | 66672 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Foot |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Foot |
| SIGNATURE | FOOT K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3080-7230 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 132 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Toward Journalism on Human Trafficking That is Trauma-Informed, Hope-Based, and Solutions-Oriented
Developments in related practices termed solutions journalism or constructive journalism and scholarship on those journalistic practices hold significant promise for improving journalism on human trafficking but have yet to be engaged robustly by either journalists or scholars of journalism on human trafficking (HT). This commentary article reviews recent scholarship on constructive journalism considering patterns in media framing of human traffi…
Special Issue “Frontiers in Organizing Processes: Collaborating against Human Trafficking/Modern Slavery for Impact and Sustainability”
Multiprofessional, interorganizational, and cross-sector collaboration is widely recognized as essential to counter human trafficking [...]
Structures and Practices of Cross-Sector Engagement in Counter-Human Trafficking Coalitions in the Global South
Human trafficking is a violation of human rights that takes many forms (U.S. Department of State, 2017). Participation in same-sector and multisector coalitions and collaborative counter-trafficking efforts are being actively encouraged by the aid industry globally. Working in partnership with other organizations within and across sectors is increasingly perceived as necessary. There is a wide variety of models for structuring and enacting multis…
Activity Theory
Cultural‐historical activity theory (abbreviated as CHAT or activity theory) is a theoretical framework for understanding how people engage in collective, communicative, purposeful activity. Activity theory is practice‐based and object‐driven, and employed in many fields of social research including communication and organizational studies. It enables both the analysis of complex and evolving collective practices and the generation of insights fo…
Pulling the plug visually: Images of resistance to ICTs and connectivity
As information and communication technologies (ICTs) become ever more present and pervasive in daily life, the use or non-use of ICTs can provide choices as well as obstacles or exclusion. As people look for ways to reduce ICT use and push back on ICT immersion, some express resistance to ICTs via ICTs. Building on past scholarship based largely on interviews, surveys and textual analysis, this exploratory study analyzes a collection of images po…
Developments in Anti-Trafficking Efforts: 2008-2011
Human trafficking has drawn increasing public attention since the early 2000s, accompanied by significant developments in anti-trafficking efforts (ATEs) around the world. Focusing on ATE developments since 2008, this article provides statistical data on 586 governmental, intergovernmental, and nongovernmental agencies and organizations engaged in ATE, including their geographical bases and areas of operation, and the types of trafficking and vic…
Cultural-Historical Activity Theory: Exploring a Theory to Inform Practice and Research
In every profession, the ways in which people go about their work, how they build organizations, and how organizations interact with each other greatly affects the outcomes of the work. Interest in
Narratives and Network Organization: A Comparison of Fair Trade Systems in Two Nations
The narratives that flow through networks can shed light on their organization. This analysis looks at the elaboration of fair trade networks in the United States and the United Kingdom, with a focus on the narrative control exercised by key gatekeeping organizations. Structural properties of the 2 networks reflect differences in centralization as measured through distance, closeness, and betweenness in relations among organizations. The analysis…
Contradictions, transitions, and materiality in organizing processes: An activity theory perspective
This article develops the concept of multilevel contradictions in organizing processes, from the perspective of cultural-historical activity theory. In most activity theory-based scholarship, systemic contradictions are collapsed into a singular, generic construct, and the generative force of the different levels of contradictions in socio-organizational relations is overlooked. In contrast, we explicate when, how and why four distinct layers of …
Civic Life Online: Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth
The relationship of participation in online communities to civic and political engagement.Young people today have grown up living substantial portions of their lives online, seeking entertainment, social relationships, and a place to express themselves. It is clear that participation in online communities is important for many young people, but less clear how this translates into civic or political engagement. This volume examines the relationshi…
Candidates' Web Practices in the 2002 U.S. House, Senate, and Gubernatorial Elections
This study focuses on the extent to which U.S. campaigns are adapting traditional campaign strategies to the Web and/or developing innovative strategies that employ some of the particular affordances of Web technologies and on how well campaign characteristics, such as incumbency and major party affiliation, and/or race characteristics, such as statewide office and competitiveness, explain the level of a campaign's adaptation of or innovation wit…
Web Campaigning
The use of the Web in U.S. political campaigns has developed dramatically over the course of the last several election seasons. In Web Campaigning, Kirsten Foot and Steven Schneider examine the evolution of campaigns' Web practices, based on hundreds of campaign Web sites produced by a range of political actors during the U.S. elections of 2000, 2002, and 2004. Their developmental analyses of how and why campaign organizations create specific onl…
Analyzing Linking Practices: Candidate Sites in the 2002 US Electoral Web Sphere
This article offers preliminary insights and a possible empirical model for managing the conceptual, methodological, and technological challenges entailed in developmental analysis of link-mediated relations. We offer a “mid-range” approach to making sense of linking practices, midway between close rhetorical/ethnographic analysis of links and large-scale link mapping. We suggest that systematic human coding and interpretation of linked-to produc…
Citizen Perceptions of Online Interactivity and Implications for Political Campaign Communication
In this essay we test empirically whether U.S. citizens identify and distinguish between the media and human interaction components of the Internet as suggested by Stromer-Galley (2000). In addition, we explore how citizens understand the role of the Internet in political campaigns, and the role they themselves can play in the campaign process by utilizing the interactive features of Internet applications. To answer these questions, we conducted …
Politics As Usual, or Politics Unusual? Position Taking and Dialogue on Campaign Websites in the 2002 U.S. Elections
Many consider the World Wide Web to be nothing more than an additional medium alongside others in which established patterns of political behavior and information flows are played out anew; others contend that the special characteristics of the Web hold the potential to produce fundamentally different patterns of political behavior than those found offline. This article analyzes the occurrence of position taking and issue dialogue on campaign web…
Corporate E-Cruiting: The Construction of Work in Fortune 500 Recruiting Web Sites
Corporate recruitment efforts have evolved from traditional newspaper want ads to highly sophisticated, rhetorically powerful recruiting Web sites or “career sites.” This e-cruiting phenomenon offers a unique opportunity not only to examine organizations’ persuasive attempts to recruit potential applicants online, but also to uncover contemporary corporate representations of the meaning(s) of work. Using a random sample of recruitment Web sites o…
Web-Based Memorializing After September 11: Toward a Conceptual Framework
Web-based memorializing is an emerging set of social practices mediated by computer networks, through which digital objects, structures, and spaces of commemoration are produced. Based on in-depth analysis of eight Web sites produced to memorialize victims of the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001, we demonstrate that Web-based memorializing bears a diverse array of characteristics, only some of which are consistent with…
The Web and the 2004 EP election: Comparing political actor Web sites in 11 EU Member States
This study reports on incorporation of the Web during the 2004 European Parliament election as played out in 11 EU Member States. Based on an analysis of Web site features related to a conceptualization of political engagement, the study examines utilization of features reflecting information provision and opportunities for discussion and political action. The findings reflect the low level of importance historically ascribed to European Parliame…
The Web as an Object of Study
Pursuing an Evolving Object: A Case Study in Object Formation and Identification
The notion of object is a central, but frequently misunderstood, element of cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT). From what, where, and when does the object of an activity system come? How does an activity theorist identify an activity's multifaceted, evolving object? This article presents a rearticulation of object in CHAT perspective, illustrated by a case study of object formation in a network of conflict monitors in the post-Soviet sphe…
Cultural-historical activity theory as practice theory: Illuminating the Development of Conflict-Monitoring Network
As the number and intensity of conflicts increased around the world during the latter part of the 20th century, scholars, policymakers, and practitioners of non-violent conflict management strategies created conflict-monitoring networks to track the escalation of tensions in conflict-prone regions. This essay demonstrates how cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) was employed in the service of a conflict-monitoring network in the former Sovi…
Citizen Perceptions of Online Interactivity and Implications for Political Campaign Communication
In this essay we test empirically whether U.S. citizens identify and distinguish between the media and human interaction components of the Internet as suggested by Stromer-Galley (2000). In addition, we explore how citizens understand the role of the Internet in political campaigns, and the role they themselves can play in the campaign process by utilizing the interactive features of Internet applications. To answer these questions, we conducted …
Cultural-Historical Activity Theory: Exploring a Theory to Inform Practice and Research
In every profession, the ways in which people go about their work, how they build organizations, and how organizations interact with each other greatly affects the outcomes of the work. Interest in
Analyzing Linking Practices: Candidate Sites in the 2002 US Electoral Web Sphere
This article offers preliminary insights and a possible empirical model for managing the conceptual, methodological, and technological challenges entailed in developmental analysis of link-mediated relations. We offer a “mid-range” approach to making sense of linking practices, midway between close rhetorical/ethnographic analysis of links and large-scale link mapping. We suggest that systematic human coding and interpretation of linked-to produc…
The Web as an Object of Study
Web-Based Memorializing After September 11: Toward a Conceptual Framework
Web-based memorializing is an emerging set of social practices mediated by computer networks, through which digital objects, structures, and spaces of commemoration are produced. Based on in-depth analysis of eight Web sites produced to memorialize victims of the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001, we demonstrate that Web-based memorializing bears a diverse array of characteristics, only some of which are consistent with…
Cultural-historical activity theory as practice theory: Illuminating the Development of Conflict-Monitoring Network
As the number and intensity of conflicts increased around the world during the latter part of the 20th century, scholars, policymakers, and practitioners of non-violent conflict management strategies created conflict-monitoring networks to track the escalation of tensions in conflict-prone regions. This essay demonstrates how cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) was employed in the service of a conflict-monitoring network in the former Sovi…
The Web and the 2004 EP election: Comparing political actor Web sites in 11 EU Member States
This study reports on incorporation of the Web during the 2004 European Parliament election as played out in 11 EU Member States. Based on an analysis of Web site features related to a conceptualization of political engagement, the study examines utilization of features reflecting information provision and opportunities for discussion and political action. The findings reflect the low level of importance historically ascribed to European Parliame…
Developments in Anti-Trafficking Efforts: 2008-2011
Human trafficking has drawn increasing public attention since the early 2000s, accompanied by significant developments in anti-trafficking efforts (ATEs) around the world. Focusing on ATE developments since 2008, this article provides statistical data on 586 governmental, intergovernmental, and nongovernmental agencies and organizations engaged in ATE, including their geographical bases and areas of operation, and the types of trafficking and vic…
Candidates' Web Practices in the 2002 U.S. House, Senate, and Gubernatorial Elections
This study focuses on the extent to which U.S. campaigns are adapting traditional campaign strategies to the Web and/or developing innovative strategies that employ some of the particular affordances of Web technologies and on how well campaign characteristics, such as incumbency and major party affiliation, and/or race characteristics, such as statewide office and competitiveness, explain the level of a campaign's adaptation of or innovation wit…
Corporate E-Cruiting: The Construction of Work in Fortune 500 Recruiting Web Sites
Corporate recruitment efforts have evolved from traditional newspaper want ads to highly sophisticated, rhetorically powerful recruiting Web sites or “career sites.” This e-cruiting phenomenon offers a unique opportunity not only to examine organizations’ persuasive attempts to recruit potential applicants online, but also to uncover contemporary corporate representations of the meaning(s) of work. Using a random sample of recruitment Web sites o…
Structures and Practices of Cross-Sector Engagement in Counter-Human Trafficking Coalitions in the Global South
Human trafficking is a violation of human rights that takes many forms (U.S. Department of State, 2017). Participation in same-sector and multisector coalitions and collaborative counter-trafficking efforts are being actively encouraged by the aid industry globally. Working in partnership with other organizations within and across sectors is increasingly perceived as necessary. There is a wide variety of models for structuring and enacting multis…
Cultural-historical activity theory as practice theory: Illuminating the Development of Conflict-Monitoring Network
As the number and intensity of conflicts increased around the world during the latter part of the 20th century, scholars, policymakers, and practitioners of non-violent conflict management strategies created conflict-monitoring networks to track the escalation of tensions in conflict-prone regions. This essay demonstrates how cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) was employed in the service of a conflict-monitoring network in the former Sovi…
Pursuing an Evolving Object: A Case Study in Object Formation and Identification
The notion of object is a central, but frequently misunderstood, element of cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT). From what, where, and when does the object of an activity system come? How does an activity theorist identify an activity's multifaceted, evolving object? This article presents a rearticulation of object in CHAT perspective, illustrated by a case study of object formation in a network of conflict monitors in the post-Soviet sphe…
The Web as an Object of Study
Politics As Usual, or Politics Unusual? Position Taking and Dialogue on Campaign Websites in the 2002 U.S. Elections
Many consider the World Wide Web to be nothing more than an additional medium alongside others in which established patterns of political behavior and information flows are played out anew; others contend that the special characteristics of the Web hold the potential to produce fundamentally different patterns of political behavior than those found offline. This article analyzes the occurrence of position taking and issue dialogue on campaign web…
Corporate E-Cruiting: The Construction of Work in Fortune 500 Recruiting Web Sites
Corporate recruitment efforts have evolved from traditional newspaper want ads to highly sophisticated, rhetorically powerful recruiting Web sites or “career sites.” This e-cruiting phenomenon offers a unique opportunity not only to examine organizations’ persuasive attempts to recruit potential applicants online, but also to uncover contemporary corporate representations of the meaning(s) of work. Using a random sample of recruitment Web sites o…
Web-Based Memorializing After September 11: Toward a Conceptual Framework
Web-based memorializing is an emerging set of social practices mediated by computer networks, through which digital objects, structures, and spaces of commemoration are produced. Based on in-depth analysis of eight Web sites produced to memorialize victims of the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001, we demonstrate that Web-based memorializing bears a diverse array of characteristics, only some of which are consistent with…
The Web and the 2004 EP election: Comparing political actor Web sites in 11 EU Member States
This study reports on incorporation of the Web during the 2004 European Parliament election as played out in 11 EU Member States. Based on an analysis of Web site features related to a conceptualization of political engagement, the study examines utilization of features reflecting information provision and opportunities for discussion and political action. The findings reflect the low level of importance historically ascribed to European Parliame…
Web Campaigning
The use of the Web in U.S. political campaigns has developed dramatically over the course of the last several election seasons. In Web Campaigning, Kirsten Foot and Steven Schneider examine the evolution of campaigns' Web practices, based on hundreds of campaign Web sites produced by a range of political actors during the U.S. elections of 2000, 2002, and 2004. Their developmental analyses of how and why campaign organizations create specific onl…
Analyzing Linking Practices: Candidate Sites in the 2002 US Electoral Web Sphere
This article offers preliminary insights and a possible empirical model for managing the conceptual, methodological, and technological challenges entailed in developmental analysis of link-mediated relations. We offer a “mid-range” approach to making sense of linking practices, midway between close rhetorical/ethnographic analysis of links and large-scale link mapping. We suggest that systematic human coding and interpretation of linked-to produc…
Citizen Perceptions of Online Interactivity and Implications for Political Campaign Communication
In this essay we test empirically whether U.S. citizens identify and distinguish between the media and human interaction components of the Internet as suggested by Stromer-Galley (2000). In addition, we explore how citizens understand the role of the Internet in political campaigns, and the role they themselves can play in the campaign process by utilizing the interactive features of Internet applications. To answer these questions, we conducted …
Civic Life Online: Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth
The relationship of participation in online communities to civic and political engagement.Young people today have grown up living substantial portions of their lives online, seeking entertainment, social relationships, and a place to express themselves. It is clear that participation in online communities is important for many young people, but less clear how this translates into civic or political engagement. This volume examines the relationshi…
Candidates' Web Practices in the 2002 U.S. House, Senate, and Gubernatorial Elections
This study focuses on the extent to which U.S. campaigns are adapting traditional campaign strategies to the Web and/or developing innovative strategies that employ some of the particular affordances of Web technologies and on how well campaign characteristics, such as incumbency and major party affiliation, and/or race characteristics, such as statewide office and competitiveness, explain the level of a campaign's adaptation of or innovation wit…
Narratives and Network Organization: A Comparison of Fair Trade Systems in Two Nations
The narratives that flow through networks can shed light on their organization. This analysis looks at the elaboration of fair trade networks in the United States and the United Kingdom, with a focus on the narrative control exercised by key gatekeeping organizations. Structural properties of the 2 networks reflect differences in centralization as measured through distance, closeness, and betweenness in relations among organizations. The analysis…
Contradictions, transitions, and materiality in organizing processes: An activity theory perspective
This article develops the concept of multilevel contradictions in organizing processes, from the perspective of cultural-historical activity theory. In most activity theory-based scholarship, systemic contradictions are collapsed into a singular, generic construct, and the generative force of the different levels of contradictions in socio-organizational relations is overlooked. In contrast, we explicate when, how and why four distinct layers of …
Cultural-Historical Activity Theory: Exploring a Theory to Inform Practice and Research
In every profession, the ways in which people go about their work, how they build organizations, and how organizations interact with each other greatly affects the outcomes of the work. Interest in
Pulling the plug visually: Images of resistance to ICTs and connectivity
As information and communication technologies (ICTs) become ever more present and pervasive in daily life, the use or non-use of ICTs can provide choices as well as obstacles or exclusion. As people look for ways to reduce ICT use and push back on ICT immersion, some express resistance to ICTs via ICTs. Building on past scholarship based largely on interviews, surveys and textual analysis, this exploratory study analyzes a collection of images po…
Developments in Anti-Trafficking Efforts: 2008-2011
Human trafficking has drawn increasing public attention since the early 2000s, accompanied by significant developments in anti-trafficking efforts (ATEs) around the world. Focusing on ATE developments since 2008, this article provides statistical data on 586 governmental, intergovernmental, and nongovernmental agencies and organizations engaged in ATE, including their geographical bases and areas of operation, and the types of trafficking and vic…
Activity Theory
Cultural‐historical activity theory (abbreviated as CHAT or activity theory) is a theoretical framework for understanding how people engage in collective, communicative, purposeful activity. Activity theory is practice‐based and object‐driven, and employed in many fields of social research including communication and organizational studies. It enables both the analysis of complex and evolving collective practices and the generation of insights fo…
Structures and Practices of Cross-Sector Engagement in Counter-Human Trafficking Coalitions in the Global South
Human trafficking is a violation of human rights that takes many forms (U.S. Department of State, 2017). Participation in same-sector and multisector coalitions and collaborative counter-trafficking efforts are being actively encouraged by the aid industry globally. Working in partnership with other organizations within and across sectors is increasingly perceived as necessary. There is a wide variety of models for structuring and enacting multis…
Special Issue “Frontiers in Organizing Processes: Collaborating against Human Trafficking/Modern Slavery for Impact and Sustainability”
Multiprofessional, interorganizational, and cross-sector collaboration is widely recognized as essential to counter human trafficking [...]
Toward Journalism on Human Trafficking That is Trauma-Informed, Hope-Based, and Solutions-Oriented
Developments in related practices termed solutions journalism or constructive journalism and scholarship on those journalistic practices hold significant promise for improving journalism on human trafficking but have yet to be engaged robustly by either journalists or scholars of journalism on human trafficking (HT). This commentary article reviews recent scholarship on constructive journalism considering patterns in media framing of human traffi…
Political science (18 works) · Computer Science (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (9 works) · Public relations (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · World Wide Web (8 works) · Social Media and Politics (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works)