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David L. Altheide
David L. Altheide is Emeritus Regents’ Professor in the School of Justice and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University, where he taught for 37 years. A sociologist who uses qualitative methods, his work has focused on the role of mass media and information technology for social control. Three of his books received the Cooley Award as the best book for the year in the tradition of symbolic interaction, from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. Media Power (1985) was recognized in 1986; Creating Fear: News and the Construction of Crisis (Aldine de Gruyter/Transaction, 2002) was selected in 2004; and Terrorism and the Politics of Fear (AltaMira, 2006), honored in 2007, examines the role of the mass media and propaganda in promoting fear and social control. His most recent book, Terror Post 9/11 and the Media (Lang, 2009), delineates how terrorism has become a dominant frame for altering language, as well as justifying domestic and military policies. Dr Altheide received the 2005 George Herbert Mead Award for lifetime contributions from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, and was selected as the Distinguished Mentor by this society in 2007. In fall, 2012, he was a Fulbright specialist at the Zeppelin University (Friedrichshafen, DE), and a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of New South Wales (Sydney, AU).