Book Review: The Newsphere: Understanding the News and Information Environment

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Christine Tracy The Newsphere: Understanding the News and Information Environment. New York: Peter Lang, 2012. 132 pp.Christine Tracy's The Newsphere: Understanding the News and Information Environment offers an ecological examination of news. When viewed as an ecology, news is not a product to be consumed but a conscious act to engage with and produce shared information that has value in a community (p. 21). She calls today's relentless news environment the newsphere.Tracy, an associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University, argues the acceleration of news in digital forms has leftmost citizens adrift, surrounded by an overwhelming number of as well as ever-changing methods, networks, and channels by which these are delivered. Thus, one key goal of Tracy's work is to provide instruction in learning to sort through the newsphere's noises and the clutter, and particularly recognizing unprocessed and unconscious messages (p. 2).But

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