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David Altheide
Born in 1950, he teaches at Arizona State University's School of Justice and Social Inquiry. His received the Charles Horton Cooley Award thanks to his studies in the field of methodological perspectives of symbolic interaction, the only person to have ever received this prestigious award three times. It is given for excellence in publications in the field, by the SSSI (Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction), in recognition of his of qualitative and interactive research. In his recent publications he analyses the way in which social actors construct the meanings that give sense to social organization and action, especially with regard to the media's role in spreading news about the phenomenon of terrorism and to promote a policy of fear that increases the need for social control. Terrorism and the Politics of Fear (2006), his last book, was selected as one of the Outstanding Academic Titles of 2006 by Choice (American Library Association) because of the high quality original analysis it contains. Day and hour of the speech
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