Altheide, David L.

David L. Altheide is Regents' Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Arizona State University. A former president for the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, he has focused much of his work on the role of mass media and information technology for social control. Among his previously published books are two from Aldine de Gruyter: "Media Worlds in the Post journalism Era "(with Robert P. Snow) and "An Ecology of Communication."