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Dr. Altheide was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on August 1st, 2011

David Altheide is Regents’ Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Arizona State University, where he specializes in Mass Communication, Qualitative Research Methods, Deviant Behaviour, Propaganda and Official Information, and Social Control. He is the author of numerous books, including Creating Fear: News and the Construction of Crisis (2002); Qualitative Media Analysis (1996);  An Ecology of Communication: Cultural Forms of Control (1995); Media Worlds in the Post-journalism Era (with Robert P. Snow, 1991); and Media Power (1985). READ INTERVIEW