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David Altheide

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David Altheide's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, San Diego
Masters Sociology University of California, San Diego
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara

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According to Wikipedia, David L. Altheide is an American sociologist. He taught for thirty-seven years at Arizona State University and is Regents' Professor Emeritus of the School of Justice and Social Inquiry there. Educational background David Altheide received his B.A. in 1967 from Central Washington State College, with a distinction in Sociology and a minor in Philosophy. After receiving his bachelor's degree, he was awarded a Title IV National Defense Education Act Fellowship to attend the University of Washington, where he graduated in 1969 with an M.A. in Sociology. Altheide continued his graduate studies in Sociology, receiving a fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health to attend the University of California, San Diego . In 1974, he graduated from UCSD with a Doctoral Degree in Sociology.

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David Altheide's Published Works

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Qualitative Media Analysis (1996) (1493)
Criteria for assessing interpretive validity in qualitative research. (1994) (1402)
Ethnographic Content Analysis (1987) (701)
Reflections: Ethnographic content analysis (1987) (676)
Terrorism and the Politics of Fear (2006) (493)
“The News Media, the Problem Frame, and the Production of Fear” (1997) (381)
Creating Reality: How TV News Distorts Events (1976) (265)
Creating Fear: News and the Construction of Crisis (2002) (238)
Media Logic and Political Communication (2004) (231)
Media Worlds In The Postjournalism Era (1991) (215)
Media Logic, Social Control, and Fear (2013) (197)
The Columbine Shootings and the Discourse of Fear (2009) (160)
Moral panic: From sociological concept to public discourse (2009) (137)
Fear in the news : A discourse of control (1999) (137)
Identity and the Definition of the Situation in a Mass‐Mediated Context (2000) (131)
Tracking discourse and qualitative document analysis (2000) (118)
Media Hegemony: A Failure of Perspective (1984) (118)
Children and the Discourse of Fear (2002) (81)
Format and Symbols in TV Coverage of Terrorism in the United States and Great Britain (1987) (77)
An Ecology of Communication: Toward a Mapping of the Effective Environment (2008) (74)
The mass media and terrorism (2007) (73)
War Programming: The Propaganda Project and the Iraq War (2005) (72)
An Ecology of Communication: Cultural Formats of Control (1995) (71)
Forcible rape : the crime, the victim, and the offender (1978) (68)
THE MASS MEDIA AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE MISSING CHILDREN PROBLEM (1987) (67)
Representing Order: Crime, Law and Justice in the News Media. (1992) (62)
Shots in the Mirror: Crime Films and Society (2007) (61)
Windows into the soul: surveillance and society in an age of high technology (2017) (60)
Notes Towards A Politics Of Fear (2003) (48)
An Ecology of Communication (1995) (44)
Media logic and culture: Reply to oakes (1992) (43)
Impact of Format and Ideology on TV News Coverage of Iran (1985) (33)
Process of Qualitative Document Analysis (1996) (33)
Three-in-One News: Network Coverage of Iran (1982) (32)
Terror Post 9/11 and the Media (2009) (30)
Becoming News (1976) (27)
Media participation in everyday life (1997) (24)
Smart on crime: The new language for prisoner release (2006) (24)
Media Edge: Media Logic and Social Reality (2014) (23)
News Constructions of Fear and Victim: An Exploration Through Triangulated Qualitative Document Analysis (2001) (23)
MEDIATING CUTBACKS IN HUMAN SERVICES: A CASE STUDY IN THE NEGOTIATED ORDER (1988) (22)
The impact of television news formats on social policy (1991) (21)
The Control Narrative of the Internet (2004) (21)
The Credibility of Protest (1972) (20)
The Mass Media, Crime and Terrorism (2006) (19)
Symbolic Interaction and ‘Uses and Gratification’: Towards a Theoretical Integration (1985) (17)
Risk communication and the discourse of fear (2010) (16)
Self‐Accomplishment Through Running* (1980) (16)
Media logic and social power (2011) (15)
5. Reflections on Professional Ethics (2002) (14)
Airplane Accidents, Murder, and the Mass Media: Comment on Phillips (1981) (13)
Pandemic in the Time of Trump: Digital Media Logic and Deadly Politics (2020) (13)
Policing and Social Media: Social Control in an Era of New Media (2016) (13)
Ethnography and Justice (1997) (11)
ELECTRONIC MEDIA AND STATE CONTROL: The Case of Azscam (1993) (11)
MEDIA LOGIC AND SOCIAL INTERACTION (1987) (11)
Perps in the news: A research note on stigma (2007) (11)
Counting Souls (1977) (10)
DOWN TO BUSINESS: THE COMMODIFICATION OF NONPROFIT SOCIAL SERVICES (1987) (10)
Creating fear (2021) (10)
Newsworkers and Newsmakers (1978) (9)
The culture of information (1990) (9)
Sports Versus the Mass Media (1978) (9)
Terrorism and propaganda (2009) (8)
Bureaucratic propaganda / by David L. Alteheide, John M. Johnson; Introduction by Joseph R. Gusfield (1980) (8)
Keyboarding as a Social Form (1983) (8)
The Media Syndrome (2016) (8)
The Irony of Security (1975) (8)
Terrorism Programming (2009) (8)
The Triumph of Fear: Connecting the Dots about Whistleblowers and Surveillance (2014) (7)
Living in Arizona (2011) (7)
Plugged in Research (1996) (7)
Media Culture and the Politics of Fear (2016) (7)
The Social Construction of International News (2004) (6)
Iran vs. US TV news: the hostage story out of context (1981) (5)
War and Mass Mediated Evidence (2009) (5)
The elusive mass media (1989) (5)
Normal Crimes at Penn State (2012) (4)
COMMUNICATION AS POWER IN PETER HALL’S WORK (2003) (4)
Newspapers, Magazines, and Electronic Documents (1996) (4)
Mental Illness and the Law: The Eagleton Story. (1977) (4)
Gonzo Justice (2020) (4)
The Mass Media as a Total Institution (1991) (4)
Bureaucratic Propaganda: The Case of Battle Efficiency Reports (1980) (3)
Screwing the System and Making it Work: Juvenile Justice in the No-Fault Society, by Mark D. Jacobs (1993) (3)
Learning From Mistakes: Toward a Reflective Journalism (1980) (3)
Horsing Around with Literary Loops, or Why Postmodernism is Fun (1995) (3)
The Mass Media and Youth Culture (1979) (3)
Controlling the urge for a central sociological concept (1990) (3)
Constructing Psychological Terror Post 9/11 (2013) (2)
Field Notes and Other Data (1996) (2)
The Culture of Electronic Communication (1989) (2)
Deviance and the Mass Media (2015) (2)
Reflections on media meanings in Denzin's work (2002) (2)
The Media Syndrome and Reflexive Mediation (2018) (2)
Cultural maintenance and narratives of resistance in educational reform (2000) (2)
Symbolic Interactionism's Imagination (2003) (2)
Keybroading as a social form (1987) (1)
Media and Fear: After Terrorism (2018) (1)
Making Sense of Digital Communication (2017) (1)
The technocratic form in the study of mass media effects: An application (1987) (1)
With the Boys: Little League Baseball and Preadolescent Culture.Gary Alan Fine (1988) (1)
Media Logic and Media Psychology (2020) (1)
The Lens of Fear (2018) (1)
Capitalism, Hacking, and Digital Media (2018) (1)
20 Journalistic Interviewing (2001) (1)
WAR MAKING AND PROPAGANDA: MEDIA RESPONSIBILITY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS COMMUNICATION (2011) (1)
The Soap Opera Paradigm, by James H. Wittebols (2008) (1)
TV mediation of disputes and injustice (1987) (1)
ME AND THE SPITTER, Gaylord Perry (with Bob Sudyk), New York: Signet, 1974. 219 pp. S1.25 (1975) (1)
Apprehending Politics: News Media and Individual Political Development (2006) (0)
The Best Is Yet To Come (1993) (0)
Deviance, the Media and (2007) (0)
Give the Devil His Due: Fear in Its Place (2018) (0)
A Review of: “Media Democracy: How the Media Colonize Politics, by Thomas Meyer with Lew Hinchman” (2007) (0)
Terrorism and the National Security University: Public Order Redux (2013) (0)
Media Politics II: The Bert Lance Case and Beyond (2019) (0)
The Problem Frame and the Production of Fear (2018) (0)
The Columbine Shootings and Terrorism (2016) (0)
Gonzo Democracy: The Case of Azscam (2020) (0)
Media Politics I: The Politicians (2019) (0)
The present and future of symbolic interactionism : proceedings of the international symposium, Pisa 2010 : 2. (2012) (0)
Policy and the Ecology of Communication: “The Missing Children Problem” (2020) (0)
The Eagleton and Watergate Stories (2016) (0)
Postjournalism Media News (2019) (0)
Creating Sociological Awareness: Public and Applied Sociology (2010) (0)
Conclusion: Our Communicative Future (2020) (0)
Book Reviews (2004) (0)
Media Logic, Terrorism, and the Politics of Fear (2021) (0)
A Political Kaleidoscope (2019) (0)
The Gulf War and the Military-Media Complex (2016) (0)
Conclusion: Our Media Condition (2019) (0)
Electronic Reality II (2013) (0)
The Limits of Order.@@@The Jury System in America: A Critical Overview.@@@Freedom for Sale. (1976) (0)
Shedding Light on Nightmarish Social Problems (2018) (0)
Volume Information (1983) (0)
The Propaganda Project and the Iraq War (2016) (0)
Policing Crime and Fear in the News Media (2018) (0)
Chapter 7: Risk Communication and the Discourse of Fear (2015) (0)
The Discourse of Fear (2018) (0)
Chapter 6: Terrorism and the National Security University (2015) (0)
The Mass Media and School Crime. (1978) (0)
Chapter 2: Media Logic, Social Power, and Fear (2015) (0)
Computer Formats and Bureaucratic Structures (2020) (0)
Students in the Press: 1955-1975. (1985) (0)
Gonzo Governance (2022) (0)
The Iranian Hostage Crisis, The News Code, and Mediated Diplomacy (2016) (0)
The media syndrome and contemporary crises (2016) (0)
Dispute Transformation and the Ecology of Communication (2020) (0)
The Culture of Electronic Communication and the Self (2020) (0)
Late Innings: Reflections on an Academic Game (2012) (0)
The Media as Culture (2019) (0)
The Ecology of Communication and the Effective Environment (2020) (0)
REFLECTIONS ON TERRORISM AND INMIGRATION IN ARIZONA AND UNITED STATES (2011) (0)
Breaking Cover, Bill Gulley (with Mary Ellen Reese), New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980. 288 pp. $11.95 (cloth) (1982) (0)
Chapter 5: Terrorism and Fear Post 9/11 (2015) (0)
Representing Order Crime, Law and Justice in the News Media.By Richard V. Ericson, Patricia M. Baranek, Janet B.L. Chan. University of Toronto Press, 1991. 383 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95 (1992) (0)
Chapter 8: Shielding Risk (2015) (0)
Chapter 9: Our Mediated Condition (2015) (0)
Chapter 3: Symbolic Interaction Illuminates the Mediated World (2015) (0)
Media Power: (2021) (0)
New Directions in the Study of Justice, Law, and Social Control (1990) (0)
Worst Cases and Dark Times (2008) (0)
Reflections on Interactionist Institutional Orders (2020) (0)
The Place of Law in Cyberspace (2002) (0)
Mediated Fear: Digital Booty, WikiLeaks, ISIS, and Ebola (2016) (0)
THE SOCIOLOGIST AS DETECTIVE, edited by William B. Sanders, New York: Praeger, 1974. 263 pp. S3.95 (1975) (0)
RTND A News Award Judging and Media Culture (1978) (0)
The Missing Children Problem: A Case Study in Media Sensationalism (2016) (0)
The Ecology of Communication and TV Coverage of Terrorism in the United States and Great Britain (2020) (0)
Chapter 4: Media Dramas and the Social Construction of Reality (2015) (0)
Postjournalism: The Gulf War in Perspective (2020) (0)
Media logic, fear, and the construction of terrorism (2021) (0)

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