This volume is the first eight chapters of the 2016 edition of Communication in the Real World: An Introduction to Communication Studies published by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing. That edition was adapted from a work published in 2013 by an author who requested no attribution, distributed under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA) in 2013.
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