Christine M. Tracy is a rhetorician, media ecologist, and communications scholar. She teaches journalism as an associate professor in EMU’s English Department. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Rhetoric from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., where she was a founding editor of Computer-Mediated Communication, one of the Web’s first e-zines. Her "The Newsphere: Understanding The News and Information Environment" (Peter Lang 2013) combats disillusionment with the news environment. She is currently resarching new forms of news and new ways to consume news. She lives in Ann Arbor, MI.