About the Authors

• Published date: 14 October 2011
• Date: 14 October 2011
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0275-7982(2011)0000006013
• Pages: 219-223

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

David L. Altheide is Emeritus Regents’ Professor in the School of Justice and

Social Inquiry at Arizona State University. Using qualitative methodology,

his work has focused on the role of mass media and information technology

for social control. His two most recent books are: Terrorism and the Politics

of Fear (Alta Mira, 2006) and Terror Post 9/11 and the Media (Lang, 2009).

The former work as well as Creating Fear: News and the Construction of

Crisis (Aldine/Transaction, 2002) received the Cooley Award as the best

books for the year in the tradition of symbolic interaction, from the Society

for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. Dr. Altheide also won this award in

1986 for his book Media Power, and he is the 2005 George Herbert Mead

Award recipient for lifetime contributions from the Society for the Study of

Symbolic Interaction.

Chung-Yi Chen is a graduate of the National Taipei University, Taipei,

Taiwan. His research interests include internet technologies, sexual mino-

rities, and civil rights movements.

Sam Cherribi (PhD, University of Amsterdam) is a senior lecturer in

Sociology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where he also directs

the Emory Development Initiative (EDI) which promotes development in

low-income countries. He works with faculty in Emory’s Institute of Human

Rights. Before moving to Emory in 2003, Dr. Cherribi was an elected

Member of Parliament in the Netherlands for two consecutive four-year

terms (1994–2002), during which time he also represented the Netherlands in

the Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Assembly of the Western

European Union. His recent book In the House of War: Dutch Islam

Observed has been published by Oxford University Press (2011). An

accomplished public speaker in French, Arabic, Dutch, and English,

Dr. Cherribi has worked as a translator, broadcaster, lecturer, and

researcher and has published in the press.

Walter Ezell is a journalist and publisher in South Carolina.

Helen Fein is an executive director of the Institute for the Study of

Genocide, a research associate, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard

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