Understanding Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication is adapted from a work distributed under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA) in 2016 by University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing through the eLearning Support Initiative; which was derived from a version published in 2010 by a publisher who has requested that they and the original author not receive attribution.

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