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David Altheide
David L. Altheide is Regents’ Professor in the Faculty of Justice and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University, where he has taught for 37 years. A sociologist, who uses qualitative methods, his work –12 books and over 140 journal articles and chapters – has focused on the role of mass media and information technology for social control. Dr. Altheide received the 2005 George Herbert Mead Award for lifetime contributions from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. He is also a three-time recipient of the SSSI’s Cooley Award, for the best book for the year in 2007 for Terrorism and the Politics of Fear (AltaMira, 2006); 2004 for Creating Fear: News and the Construction of Crisis (Aldine de Gruyter/Transaction; 2002); and 1986 for Media Power (Sage).
His most recent book is Terror Post 9/11 and the Media (Lang, 2009).
His teaching efforts were recognized with the SSSI’s Mentor Excellence Award in 2007.
